“Singin’ in the Rain” is my favorite all-time movie, so of course I was saddened by the deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. I had the good fortune to see Carrie’s one-woman show, “Wishful Drinking.” And I appreciated that she transformed the image of a princess from a helpless prima donna waiting for a prince to rescue her into a smart, strong, resourceful woman who rescues men.
I started googling her, Debbie, and her father Eddie Fisher. Eddie abandoned Debbie for Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie’s best friend. I found this in Eddie’s bio.
“In 1981, Fisher wrote an autobiography, Eddie: My Life, My Loves (ISBN 0-06-014907-8). He wrote another autobiography in 1999 titled Been There, Done That (ISBN 0-312-20972-X). The later book devotes little space to Fisher’s singing career, but recycled the material of his first book and added many new sexual details that were too strong to publish before. His daughter Carrie declared, upon publication: “That’s it. I’m having my DNA fumigated.”
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Yeah, that is a great line
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I love Carrie’s line! She had an incredible wit.
I will miss her, and her mother Debbie Reynolds.
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My favorite movie, too. Debbie and Eddie were my favorites in the ’50’s till he left her and his senses. Even had a scrapbook about them with many articles from Phtoplay, Midern Screen and the like … precursors to People. A very sad ending for Debbie and Carrie and to my childhood fanaticism. Will 2016 ever end?
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I instantly think of “Help me , Obi Wan Kenobi. You’re our only hope.”
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I like this one too:
Trump speaking his mind isn’t refreshing, it’s appalling. Coca Cola is refreshing…
~Carrie Fisher
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This goes right up there with Leona Helmsley [aka the “Queen of Mean’]—
“I wouldn’t believe Donald Trump if his tongue was notarized.”
😎
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Another very creative artist died this week, George Michael. He was a complicated, man with depressive tendencies, and he used drugs to self medicate, as did Carrie Fisher. He had a golden voice, and he was a talented songwriter. Despite his very public missteps, he disliked celebrity. Known in the beginning for shaking his bottom, he later rarely appeared in his own videos. No one knows how generous he was because he gave millions to British charities anonymously. He and Elton John gave 100% of the proceeds from their duet “Don’t Let the Sun Go down on Me” to an AIDs charity. Even though he was a private person, he loved performing. In 2008 I saw him in Houston with my daughter. It was the last tour he made in America. His voice was better in person than a CD, and he seemed happy to be performing before a sold out crowd.
Here are the lyrics to one of my favorite George Michael’s songs, “Praying for Time.” It was not one of his big hits, but the message relates to our current world. You can also find the song on “Youtube.”
Praying for Time
George Michael
Do you think we have time?
Do you think we have time?
These are the days of the open hand
They will not be the last
Look around now
These are the days of the beggars and the choosers
This is the year of the hungry man
Whose place is in the past
Hand in hand with ignorance
And legitimate excuses
The rich declare themselves poor
And most of us are not sure
If we have too much
But we’ll taking our chance to say
I sang twenty years and a day
But nothing changed
The human race found some other guy
And walked into the flame
And it’s hard to love, there’s so much to hate
Hanging on to hope
When there is no hope to speak of
And the wounded skies above say it’s much too late
Well maybe we should all be praying for time
Doo oh oh
Do you think we have time?
Do you
Do you…
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“I don’t want my life to imitate art, I want my life to be art.”
― Carrie Fisher
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I chuckle at all the grief shown for the recently dead celebrities. As if celebrity status signifies much of anything at all (hint see Trump, Donald).
I mourn at the deaths of so many innocents, the numbers of which dwarf those celebrity deaths, killed by the many military weapons systems that this country has used and provided for and highly profited from killing regimes everywhere whether they are state actors or groups who are supposedly “on our side”.
Americans choose to ignore those deaths of innocents and place value on the death of a celebrity.
How f$#%ing sick is that?
Yes, I’m cursing Jean and others who are so righteously above that level. It’s because I am so disgusted at the willingness of Americans to be so self blindingly ignorant to the atrocities that this country perpetuates on the world.
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Yeah I tend to agree, although I wouldn’t swear at them. I refer to them as the ET crowd, generally so wrapped up in their own self importance that they don’t have a connection to the man/women on the street except to tell them how they should live and what to think,then fly of to the south of France.
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I can see a little confusion in my statement. There should be a comma after cursing “Yes, I’m cursing, Jean and others. . . .” I am not cursing them but showing my anger at the situation.
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Duane, I understand your ire. We tend to feel for people we know and with celebrities permeating our lives from a young age, we have a sense that we know them. I’m so old I remember the song, “Tammy’s in Love” being sung by my very young first grade teacher.
I share your consternation with our inability or our refusal to do anything to help the innocents — the little children gunned down daily here in the United States and the ongoing genocide in other parts of the world. I know we can’t save the world but we could do more.
On another note: I loved the DNA fumigation quote.
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A little late, but–from Mother Jones–
“So you have to be attractive to be groped uninvited by Trump. Finally!
A reason to want to be ugly!”–Carrie Fisher, October 15, 2016
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Another great Carrie line!
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