Wishful Drinking
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Carrie Fisher
‘No motive is pure. No one is good or bad – but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.' Carrie Fisher in Wishful DrinkingIn Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher told the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play aprincess in a little movie calledStar Wars when only 19 years old. "But it isn't all sweetness and light sabres." Alas, aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo), Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction and weathering the wild ride of manic depression. It's an incredible tale: from having Elizabeth Tayloras a stepmother, to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon, and from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man, to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed. Carrie Fisher's star-studded career included roles in numerous films such as The Blues Brothers and When Harry Met Sally. She was the author of four bestselling novels, Surrender in the Pink, Delusions of Grandma, The Best Awful and Postcards from the Edge, which was made into a hit film starring Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep. Carrie's experience with addiction and mental illness – and her willingness to talk honestly about them – made her a sought-after speaker and respected advocate. She was truly one of the most magical people to walk among us.
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Author
Carrie Fisher
Pages
176
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2012-02-02
ISBN
1471101096 9781471101090
Ratings
Google: 4
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"Listened to the audiobook. It’s nice to hear from the main source and know what had been truly going on in a person’s life instead of hearing rumors or gossip.<br/>I’m glad Carrie was honest with herself, owning up to her mistakes and the life she lived, and trying to tell her story in a reflective manner. <br/>It’s sad she didn’t get the help she needed even though she did come “from a privileged life” and as she mentioned “Hollywood inbreeding” may have been the problem.<br/>I appreciated her sharing her stories and being able to laugh at some of the crazy stuff her mom would say, what her brother did, and her own mistakes and folly.<br/>It does go to show though if a child doesn’t get their needs met for so long, it eventually leads to them trying to find a way to unhealthily cope and get what they think they need. Like how she got into drugs and alcohol until they became addictions that didn’t help at all, not to add on to making her later diagnosed bipolar disorder become worse.<br/>I appreciated the small trivia I didn’t know about when she filmed for Star Wars that she didn’t really wear underwear (a lot of some type of tape to keep her boobs more or less into place) when wearing the white robe in the first movie, and that she really didn’t like the hairstyle for her character because she thought it only accentuated how round she saw her face as. <br/>And how she got pot from Harrison Ford, I didn’t know he got into that stuff, which made me laugh. It’s really nice to see that famous/well-known actors are really not that different than us, they shouldn’t be put into another category or put on a pedestal/idolized for their acting roles etc. They’re people like us who have flaws, make mistakes, and don’t have their life together 24/7."