Yesterday, this article on Carrie Fisher (famously known as Princess Leia from Star Wars) was wildly reposted on my Newsfeed by the people I know: Carrie Fisher's last Harrison Ford story isn't romantic, it's tragic. A few paragraphs from this story goes something like this... In the wake of Carrie Fisher’s unexpected death at age 60 , her new memoir, The Princess Diarist , is an unexpectedly emotional read. But the emotions aren’t grief and nostalgia so much as alarm and sympathy. Early in the book, she tells a thoroughly appalling story that she presents as a cheery little romp. In London for the filming of 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope , Fisher attends George Lucas’ birthday party, where she’s “essentially the only girl” in a room full of hard-drinking crew who are loudly whinging that they’d rather shoot in “a nice remote location… where there’s no bloody shortage of strange but friendly quim.” At the time, Fisher is 19, and by her...
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