The Los Angeles Times here are also sparkling bons mots bespeaking quirky intelligence and sweetness. In her own defiant manner, shes fought the good fight. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of Hollywood in-breeding, come of Review Quotes has a talent for lacerating insight that masquerades as carefree self-deprecation.The effect, ultimately, is extraordinarily painful while being extremely entertaining.hes done her best to make sense of it all, and throughout, her humor has held up. Book Synopsis The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. She tells her true and outrageous story of her bizarre reality with her inimitable wit, unabashed self-deprecation, and buoyant, infectious humor.About the Book In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of Hollywood in-breeding, come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and be a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of 19. Entertainment Weekly declared it “drolly hysterical” and the Los Angeles Times called it a “Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes.” This is Carrie Fisher at her best-revealing her worst. Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success.
It’s an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty-Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher-homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed. Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of “Hollywood in-breeding,” come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.
The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show.
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