Much more than Princess Leia – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

Reduce Carrie Fisher to our travel through space is short. Princess Leia is the goalkeeper that Albert Camus was in Algiers, is to remember, but Camus was more than that

There is a television program in american that they put the coal and the heat logo in title, Comedy Central Roasted. The idea is to put the guest, always a personality, in the roaster. Nothing is spared and his addictions and ailments are the favourite subject. Carrie Fisher was there four years ago and heard one of your friends say that she was the only celebrity whose action figure (the figure which illustrates a character’s action, like Batman or Super-Man) was worse than her own. It must have been of the milder insults happened in the Comedy Central Roasted.

And, indeed, the Princess Leia, so chorada by the crowd of fans nostalgic for his own youth, is a figure off compared with the extraordinary person who was Carrie Fisher. You need to be a frog alien as Jabba the Hutt to be amazed by the delambida princess with your bikini metallic gold. Even Harrison Ford liked more of Carrie than the Han Solo of princess – at least those scenes were the hottest in motels, in the range of the filming, that during the space travel, the path of any War of the Stars. I’m not cuscar, I cite the autobiography of Carrie Fisher.

The first time I saw a picture of her, she was not there. On the lawn in the presence of a house in california, a beautiful blonde, one of those blondes only beautiful, not provocative as Lana Turner and Kim Novak. I know the year, 1959, my father had just bought a Chevy Bel-Air, which gave me an interest in things, california’s as fair and lawns. This blonde was posing with a pin of baby in the sweater, which was also for the not seen: inside the house, was Carrie, age 3, and brother, the baby Todd. Todd because the best friend of the parents was Mike Todd, film producer (you’ve already guessed it, the setting is Hollywood), who died recently in disaster aviation. Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher have decided to keep the friend’s name, and Eddie went further in the homage: he moved to the home of the widow, Liz Taylor, for comfort.

funny how the autobiography of Carrie came to confirm me the picture. She, that I was born there, in the dark side of that photo, outside parida also as well. She describes the doctors in the delivery room, to the back of the mother: “Oh, look at Debbie Reynolds asleep, as it is beautiful.” And the nurses, looking at father: “Oh, look at Eddie Fisher, the crooner…” Result, when Carrie was born, no one was waiting for her. In the second half of the 50s, parents were the couple from America, Debbie, an actress and dancer in the rain, he’s the singer with the most sales. Add to this the scandal of the divorce and is a childhood denied.