Wishful Drinking

Wishful Drinking
by Carrie Fisher

Wishful Drinking
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Author: Carrie Fisher
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-02
ISBN: 1439102252
Number of pages: 163
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: Enjoyed Fishers story, as she told it in a funny manner that makes you think this should be for a novel if it weren't so true.
Summary: 5 Stars

Enjoyed WISHFUL DRINKING, written and read by Carrie
Fisher . . . it's adapted from her one-woman show of the
same, and it tells Fisher's story in a funny manner
that makes you think this should be the stuff for a novel
if it weren't so true.

Fisher, the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie
Reynolds, came of age on a movie called STAR WARS . . . she
became famous at the age of 19, married then divorced
and then dated Paul Simon, learned that the father of her
daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and woke up one morning to
find a friend dead beside her in bed . . . and that's just
a small part of her life, which also included bouts of alcoholism,
drug addiction and mental illness that eventually led
to electroshock therapy.

There were a lot of juicy anecdotes, many of them involving
her father . . . she rarely missed the opportunity to give him
a dig, probably because she never forgave him for leaving her
other to be with Elizabeth Taylor:

* My father had many big songs, but perhaps the one he's
best remembered for was "Oh! My Papa,": which I like to call
"Oh! My Faux Pas."

As for her mother, she did:

* Tons and tons of films, but I think the one she's best remembered
for is the classic film SINGIN' IN THE RAIN. But she was also
nominated for an Oscar for best actress in her role in THE
UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN but tragically, she lost to
Julie Andrews for her stunning, layered and moving portrait
of MARY POPPINS. Ibsen's Mary Poppins, of course.

What I most liked about WISHFUL DRINKING was some of the inside dope
about the entertainment business, including this tidbit on George Lucas:

* He wouldn't let her wear a bra in STAR WARS because he
was adamant that there was no underwear in space!

Summary of Wishful Drinking

Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.

Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It's an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty -- Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher -- homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.

Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success. Entertainment Weekly declared it "drolly hysterical" and the Los Angeles Times called it a "Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes." This is Carrie Fisher at her best -- revealing her worst. She tells her true and outrageous story of her bizarre reality with her inimitable wit, unabashed self-deprecation, and buoyant, infectious humor.

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