Actress Carrie Fisher died December 27, four days after going into cardiac arrest on an LA-bound airline flight.
In addition to the original Star Wars trilogy, and last year’s The Force Awakens, Fisher starred in such movies as The Blues Brothers, Under the Rainbow, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Amazon Women on the Moon.
She was also an accomplished writer, the author of best-selling books Postcards from the Edge, Surrender the Pink and Delusions of Grandma, and a script doctor who made uncredited contributions to numerous Hollywood films like The Wedding Singer, Hook and Sister Act.
no words #Devastated pic.twitter.com/R9Xo7IBKmh
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) December 27, 2016
There are no words for this loss. Carrie was the brightest light in every room she entered. I will miss her dearly. pic.twitter.com/GgIeYGeMt9
— Peter Mayhew (@TheWookieeRoars) December 27, 2016
I'm deeply saddened to learn of the death of Carrie Fisher. I will miss our banterings. A wonderful talent & light has been extinguished.
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) December 27, 2016
The pain I feel at this loss is truly indescribable, Carrie Fisher you will always be my favourite princess and my hero. Goodbye pic.twitter.com/JIxKakMOg2
— Connie ? (@noodlerella) December 27, 2016
Carrie Fisher may have been Hollywood royalty, but she was often a jester in her writing https://t.co/dkzzQ75K2z pic.twitter.com/fbaHQ90VFW
— CNN (@CNN) December 27, 2016
Carrie Fisher had just one request for her obituary, and @VanityFair honored it https://t.co/4BPtz0wKIt ?? pic.twitter.com/4uHZ0byjc4
— Kelly Hills (@rocza) December 27, 2016
Here she is in the greatest scene from THE BLUES BROTHERS. It’s near the end of the movie, so it contains implicit spoilers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftt4f2H3GDs
I would that it had included the next few seconds, just for her expression, but that’s life. You don’t always get the next few seconds. I’m glad for what we did get.
May she rest in peace and the Force be always with her.
Didn’t she also play the lusty teenager in SHAMPOO competing with her mother who tried to seduce her mother’s lover played by Warren Beatty?
Sandy, yes that was her as well. I guess I should really watch that movie again. I really liked her showing up in memorable roles, like ‘When Harry Met Sally’. Now I have to mourn her and Bruno Kirby too.
I found out earlier this afternoon from someone at work. 🙁 I loved her in the “Star Wars” movies, a couple of other odd movies here and there, her writing in Postcards from the Edge, and her one-woman show, where my other half and I saw her (“Wishful Drinking,” IIRC).
Also sadly, George Michael passed away on Christmas Day this year. I don’t know of any SFF connections (maybe somefiler else does), but that’s two icons who died surprisingly young (IMHO) within two days of each other.
In her book Wishful Drinking, she wrote, “no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”
Carrie Fisher. An icon and a legend. Drowned in moonlight. Strangled by her own bra. She will be deeply missed.
I heard this at work too. Dammit. It makes me want to crawl under the bed and clap my hands over my ears until the year is over.
http://kittrose.deviantart.com/art/Leia-Organa-573861881
Flotsam from my social media making the rounds for good reasons. Enjoy.
I found her view of the whole metall bikini bit in the Wall Street Journal striking:
Also:
May the Force be with her, and may she leave an endless trail of crimelord spaceslugs and broken empires behind her.
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@Dann: Thanks; the dark sadness I get from the painting is well done.
@snowcrash: Heh, great quotes!
Diane Duane’s reaction on tumblr:
http://dduane.tumblr.com/post/155033581586/carrie-fisher
Saw Rogue One today. It was an emotional experience.
This year, this whole damned year. Yahwah, one day we will have words and you will answer to me for 2016.
May the force be with you Carrie.
Alexandra Erin has posted a speculative fiction poem in homage to Fisher.
I was driving through Indiana looking for an NPR station on the radio, and the first one I found was talking about her in the past tense. Darn.
Also, a friend with the best of intentions tried to compare her impact as a strong female character to Natalie Portman as Amidala in the prequels. I sort of shut him down (No disrespect to Ms. Portman, but she was Amidala was no Princess Leia.)
An obituary, but not of Carrie Fisher:
LEIA ORGANA: A CRITICAL OBITUARY
I also liked this from the Wookiepedia Leia Organa page
HBO has announced they’re rerunning her show Wishful Drinking on Sunday, January 1st at 9PM.
It’s well worth watching.