Carrie Fisher's "Wishful Drinking" Posted By Mike on October 15, 2008
Carrie Fisher is currently in Washington DC performing her one woman auto-biographical show "Wishful Drinking" at the Lincoln Theatre through September 28.
"She begins the show with the problem of Greg Stevens, a gay Republican political operative who died in her bed three years ago. With that out of the way, she moves on to the marital tangles of Hollywood celebrities, specifically hers and her parents, movie stars Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher.
The ostensible object is to figure out whether her father's second wife's grandson is related to her daughter. This tends to bog down a bit, because there are a lot of tangles to explore, not all of them germane to the issue at hand.
But it does illuminate Fisher's childhood.
Of course "Star Wars" comes up. It is, after all, the thing most closely associated with Fisher in the public mind, never mind that the movie came out 30-odd years ago. There's a bit about Princess Leia's hairstyle, and another bit involving an inflatable Princess Leia sex doll. Gentlemen, be warned. Do not sit in the first few rows--audience participation occurs."
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UPDATE:ClubJade.net points us over to Amazon.com where they now have a listing for Carrie Fisher's memoir that shares the same name as her one woman show, Wishful Drinking. The release date displayed is December 2, 2008 and this is confirmed on Simon & Shuster's site.
UPDATE #2: Boston.com has posted a review of Carrie Fisher's one woman show "Wishful Drinking" that you can read here. See below for an excerpt:
"What I can tell you, if you didn't know it already from her widely recognized and enviable career as a novelist and screenwriter (and from her even more widely recognized if less enviable career as a subject of tabloid headlines), is that the Carrie Fisher who appears on the Huntington's main stage in this touring show is more than a few light years removed from Princess Leia. Yes, she's older, she's heavier, and she has a much less memorable hairstyle. She's also got a sharp tongue and an even sharper mind, qualities that George Lucas barely allowed in his "Star Wars" heroine.
Lucas comes in for a fair amount of ribbing as the sobersided creator of the "Star Wars" juggernaut - and, Fisher says, as the man who "ruined my life" by giving her that braided-donut coiffure and the goofy Grecian space robe to go with it. But while Fisher's fame as Princess Leia may be what draws some audience members to her show, it's only a small part of what will keep them laughing once they're there."
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