Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher AKA “Princess Leia” wore a golden bikini or a slave girl outfit in the fourth and final Star Wars and almost immediately rose to pop culture icon status. In reality, Carrie was told to drop 10 pounds for Star Wars. At first, she failed miserably at losing weight but despite that draw back she ended up dropping the weight in time to squeeze into the tiny slave girl outfit. She has since publicly scorned those who had pressured her to lose the weight. I wonder how she finally lost the weight. Coke maybe? Q. Why is losing weight so hard? A. The ... Read Full Story

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Director Mike Nichols once said of Carrie Fisher : "She has too much personality for one person and not enough for two persons." Read Full Story

Carrie Fisher Carrie Fisher brings out her production crew during the Curtain Call for her final performance in WISHFUL DRINKING at Arena Stage at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. yesterday. We are hoping that this production will hit our stages here on Broadway in New York City soon. Photo By: Walter McBride / Retna Ltd. Read Full Story

Princess Lea and author Salman Rushdie enjoyed a meal together in London December 23rd. So Carrie Fisher was in that Star Search or whatever movie that came out before my parents were born and Rushdie wrote that book that made people mad at him so that won’t be on my summer beach reading list. Why am I reporting this story anyway? Oh yeah, I really got a kick out of the headline and the caption because I am easily amused! Read Full Story

I t is debatable if anyone actually realized how long Carrie Fisher’s image, as Princess Leia’s in the infamous gold metal bikini would travel through history. What began as a simple movie image, lasting only two minutes in the overall time of the film, has grown into a pop icon image of a hot bikini, which many teenage boys, turned grown men, still hold in their mind as their first initial definition and image of what is sexy. Two Minutes In History The scene lasted a mere two minutes in a movie that was made over a quarter century ago and yet the infamous ... Read Full Story