Carrie Fisher, American actress, writer and Space Princess passed today.
The daughter of Burt Reynolds and Isla Fisher, she is most famous for her role in Star Wars. She famously portrayed Princess Leia as a no-nonsense independent woman, and the first woman in the galaxy to run a successful combination hairdresser/patisserie.
During the filming of Star Wars, Fisher admitted to having an affair with Han Solo, the man from UNCLE, in reality actor Harrison Ford. Ford explained his monochrome wardrobe in that film saying, "I could have any colour I wanted, as long as it was black."
Fisher also appeared in cult hit The Blues Brothers, which chronicled the struggle against depression experienced by two of the Reservoir Dogs.
Fisher battled throughout her life with the twin demons of addiction and bipolar disorder. The former caused her to smoke pot plants from the age of 13 onwards, the second rendered her unable to approach magnets. In her desperation to recover, she underwent numerous treatments, including the controversial electrofunk therapy, alienating many jazz funk purists.
It was these troubles that fuelled much of her work as a writer, as which she enjoyed something of a renaissance. Her first foray into writing was actually a collection of missives from U2's 1987 tour, Postcards from the Edge.
Other writings included Surrender the Pink, and Delusions of Grandma neither of which is advisable to Google for yourself. Her final book, The Princess Diarist was published this year, and detailed Fisher's early life as a shy San Francisco teenager who is thrown for a loop when, from out of the blue, she learns the astonishing news that she's a real-life princess!
Fisher was also known for her relationships, including years spent with musician Paul Simon, during which she was known as Al Fisher. The song Heart and Bones is about the relationship, although the title is widely considered a bit TMI.
She also dated comedian Dan Ackroyd, but the relationship couldn't survive his spending long periods of time away with the answer to the question 'Who ya gonna call' never being 'Carrie Fisher'.
Most recently, Fisher was seen on-screen reprising her role as Leia in Star Wars: Episode VII, proving to the world that her buns had not yet gone stale.
She described herself as an, "enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God". So presumably that's been cleared up for her one way or another.
For someone who was part of so many childhoods, in a sense, Carrie Fisher cannot really die. As Princess Leia, she lives on, in a gold bikini and the imaginations millions of once-teenage boys.
Farewell Princess, you will be missed.
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