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Carrie Fisher RIP

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  • #52
    MPFGLB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    Debbie Reynolds wasa real trouper and star ...brilliant in her first movie Singing in the Rain

    And Carrie got her wit and intelligence from her mother ...


  • #53
    Walter E GO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭Walter E GO


    RIP, here she is with Carrie as a baby.
    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/776204/404885.jpg


  • #54
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,580 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    MPFGLB wrote: »
    Debbie Reynolds wasa real trouper and star ...brilliant in her first movie Singing in the Rain

    And Carrie got her wit and intelligence from her mother ...

    I remember her telling a story about working on that movie(it may even have been in the docu-musical that's entertainment). She was having some real issues and problems getting the dance routines right, cos her co-stars, well, they were famous for their dance routines.
    So she's crying out the back of the lot, and Fred Astaire comes over and is comforting her, as he's shooting another movie at the same time. Well, she tells him her problems, tearfully, and how she 'just can't get it in one go' or something like that. He invites her to the set of his film to watch him work, and she goes.

    Well, the scene to be shot involves him dancing with a cane. He gets up, stars dancing-and breaks the bamboo cane on the first attempt. He tries again, gets farther into the routine, and breaks the cane again, tries more and more, and ultimately it takes maybe 6 or 7 tries to get the whole shot done, without breaking the cane.
    When he's done, he walks over, drenched in sweat, and smiles to her-and says 'Debbie, it always takes more than one try'.

    She was a real hard worker, and even made friends with Elizabeth Taylor (the woman who had an affair with her husband) after her husband Eddie Fisher's death. They don't make em like that anymore.

    RIP.


  • #55
    Outlaw Pete
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    Have to say I am not all that surprised tbh given her age and how Debbie seemed to be so deeply affected by anything that Carrie went through.

    So sad. Rest in peace.


  • #56
    MPFGLB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    I recommend the film Postcards from the Edge ...written by Carrie and describes her life (played by Meryl Streep) and her relationshp with Debbie (played by Shirley Mc Claine) ...


    Plus poor Debbie was unlucky in love with her 1st husband running off with Elizabeth Taylor leavign her with a baby of a few months and a todler of 2 (Carrie) , her second and third husbands leaving her broke after her career was over ...but she kept going


  • #57
    RabbleRouser2k
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    Yeah, the actress Joely Fisher is Carrie's half sister (literally found out she had a sister when her family took her to see Star Wars and her mom said 'Princess Leia's your sister').

    She is, of course, devastated.

    https://twitter.com/MsJoelyFisher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


  • #58
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,486 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Can,t believe it(: First thing I seen when I turned on the TV this morning on Sky News. What a shock at least we kind of had an idea with Carrie. We hopped Carrie would get better after her heart attack but also knew it was very slim as the brain been deprived of air for anything more than 4 minutes is never good and hers was more than twice that but then to here this morning that her mother has died too is a huge shock and a huge loss to both Hollywood and the World.

    My condolences to all the Fisher family . RIP Debbie Reynolds your with you daughter now.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #59
    Outlaw Pete
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    I see Steve Martin has now deleted his perfectly fine tribute tweet.

    The rad fems and the perpetually offended never take a day off do they.


    https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/813902690073899008


  • #60
    Teyla Emmagan
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    Poor Billie Lourd :(


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  • #61
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,862 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    I see Steve Martin has now deleted his perfectly fine tribute tweet.

    The rad fems and the perpetually offended never take a day off do they.


    https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/813902690073899008

    FFS

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #62
    Beefy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    I see Steve Martin has now deleted his perfectly fine tribute tweet.

    The rad fems and the perpetually offended never take a day off do they.


    https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/813902690073899008

    People will get offended by anything. Carrie Fisher was beautiful. It isn't an insult to her or any woman to point that out.


  • #63
    neonsofa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    Beefy78 wrote: »
    People will get offended by anything. Carrie Fisher was beautiful. It isn't an insult to her or any woman to point that out.

    Also, he acknowledged that she was more than just beautiful.


  • #64
    Outlaw Pete
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    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Poor Billie Lourd :(

    At least she'll have Gary for some company for a time anyway.

    https://twitter.com/Gary_TheDog/status/813897444400447488


  • #65
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Have seen more than one post online chastising men for objectifying references to CF being their first crush. I must take the opputunity to retrospectively apologize for not being aware of the more holistic and intellectual aspects of personality as a 10 year old fan of the space princess.


  • #66
    CPSW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭CPSW


    So calling someone beautiful, witty and bright is deemed unacceptable by some in today's society?  Unbelievable you can't say anything these days.  Steve Martin should have kept that tweet up on his page.


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  • #67
    bnt
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    https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/813819348628348928

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #68
    Goya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    MPFGLB wrote: »
    I recommend the film Postcards from the Edge ...written by Carrie and describes her life (played by Meryl Streep) and her relationshp with Debbie (played by Shirley Mc Claine) ...


    Plus poor Debbie was unlucky in love with her 1st husband running off with Elizabeth Taylor leavign her with a baby of a few months and a todler of 2 (Carrie) , her second and third husbands leaving her broke after her career was over ...but she kept going
    And she and Taylor were close friends beforehand. Then Taylor cheated on Eddie Fisher with Richard Burton. Yet Taylor is idolised. I much prefer women like Carrie Fisher to be idolised.

    Debbie and Liz made up however and starred with each other and Shirley MacLaine (who played the Debbie Reynolds character in Postcards From The Edge) in These Old Broads, directed by Carrie. All very meta. :)
    Joan Collins was in it also - as full-on a camp, snarky bitchfest of a film as one could be. :D

    On the talk about Carrie Fisher's looks, so ****ing what? It's being recognised too that her looks were not the sum of her. People have been talking loads this week about what a gorgeous man George Michael was also.

    Steve Martin's tweet was lovely. Awful pity he was under that much pressure that he had to delete it.


  • #69
    tonycascarino
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    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    I see Steve Martin has now deleted his perfectly fine tribute tweet.

    Shocking. The world has gone absolutely nuts. I would not have deleted anything if I was Steve Martin. There will be something wrong with breathing after a while.


  • #70
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,116 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I was reading something about that affair: as Debbie told it, Taylor came back years later and apologised, and they became friends again. As for These Old Broads, no prizes for guessing who co-wrote the screenplay. Sample dialogue:
    Kate Westbourne: I know a friend who lipoed her stomach once. A few months later, she looked like Jabba the Hutt.
    Miriam: Who's Jabba the Hutt?
    Addie Holden: It's a sea slug, Mummy, from outer space and it's not a compliment.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #71
    Goya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    Carrie didn't have much time for her father - after a book of his was published, the content made her proclaim "That's it - I'm having my DNA fumigated!" :)


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  • #72
    Winterlong
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    Flimpson wrote: »
    Carrie didn't have much time for her father - after a book of his was published, the content made her proclaim "That's it - I'm having my DNA fumigated!" :)

    He was a class a prick by all accounts.


  • #73
    dublinman1990
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    Jesus a suspected stroke took away Debbie Reynolds a day after her daughter had died. That is heartbreaking news for the family.

    I was just watching the ITV News report on her death just now. I am completely stunned by how it happened. May they both RIP. :(


  • #74
    AMKC
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    Ms


    bnt wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/813819348628348928

    Just brilliant she certainly had a great sense of humour.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #75
    D0NNELLY
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    tonycascarino wrote: »
    Shocking. The world has gone absolutely nuts. I would not have deleted anything if I was Steve Martin. There will be something wrong with breathing after a while.

    Lucky it's only online you encounter this rubbish.

    Rip to both.


  • #76
    Patty O Furniture
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    I just noticed on the tv guide that, Bright Lights starring both Carrie & Debbie Reynolds is on now Sky Atlantic.

    Wishful Drinking follows it.

    It wasn't scheduled in the paper?


  • #77
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    When I see these RIP threads resurrected to the front page I immediately think "not again".


  • #78
    Patty O Furniture
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭Patty O Furniture


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    When I see these RIP threads resurrected to the front page I immediately think "not again".

    Until you realise, it's still only that person's thread :p


  • #79
    ceadaoin.
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    Patty O Furniture wrote: »
    I just noticed on the tv guide that, Bright Lights starring both Carrie & Debbie Reynolds is on now Sky Atlantic.

    Wishful Drinking follows it.

    It wasn't scheduled in the paper?

    That was on here over the weekend. Looks like it had been filmed over the past year or so. Quite poignant to see them together and to see how close they were.


  • #80
    Patty O Furniture
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭Patty O Furniture


    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    That was on here over the weekend. Looks like it had been filmed over the past year or so. Quite poignant to see them together and to see how close they were.

    Yeah, i see that now when looking it up, it was on HBO on Sat


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