Carrie Fisher on "Today"

OOP, I think you nailed it. Ford's movies from that time period are the kind of flicks that a Star Wars fan is going to love. Hans Solo is Indiana Jones in space. And it is the kind of work that makes you a star. If you do Blade Runner, Star Wars and Indiana Jones, that kind of coin is going to get the studios to come calling. But if there is 90% crossover between Star Wars and Indy fans, there is about 3.5% crossover from Star Wars and doing funny material about having a screwed up Hollywood family.

 

Han, not Hans.[/sportschick]

Count me in with Fenian, 21 and Simon. I'm happy to see Carrie Fisher on this side of her demons and addictions, even if she's *gasp* been unable to maintain the figure of a 19-year-old more than 30 years later.

Her kind of obnoxious I can embrace, if only because for me it speaks to a fighter's spirit still punching.

 

What she needed to do was to get real busy after "Jedi," capitalize on her Star Wars fame and also break out into some other defining roles, but her coking/boozing in the later 1980s pretty much derailed that plan.

She seems to have landed on her feet just fine.

Plus, as has been noted many times, Hollywood doesn't seem to have many roles for non-bombshell women in their 40s/50s. Although I could see Fisher having some kind of acting comeback (if she wants it) playing brassy middle-aged types, a-la Kathy Bates (who just turned 60).

 

Who could match the thespian goodness of Cock Knocker?


;D ;D ;D

 

One bit from the show, about the aftermath of Mike Todd's death in a plane crash, and how Eddie Fisher ran to the widowed Liz Taylor.

"My father rushed to her side, gradually working his way around to her front. He consoled her with words, and with his company and, ultimately, he consoled her with his penis."

 

Here you go, Play.

Jake: Oh, please, don't kill us. Please, please don't kill us. You know I love you baby. I wouldn't leave ya. It wasn't my fault.
Mystery Woman: You miserable slug! You think you can talk your way out of this? You betrayed me.
Jake: No I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD.
[Elwood covers his head in anticipation of more gunfire, Jake removes his sunglasses to make a wordless appeal, and the Mystery Woman visibly softens]
Mystery Woman: Oh, Jake... Jake, honey...
[Jake embraces the Mystery Woman and they kiss]
Jake: [to Elwood] Let's go.

 

She was great on "30 Rock" as the '70s-era writer Liz Lemon wanted to emulate -- or thought she wanted to emulate.

 

I was just surprised at how huge her personality was. I had no idea. None.

 

I missed it unfortunately. Is this something they might put on "The Soup" this weekend? They seem to love their "Today" clips.

 

Fantastic episode.

 

She was great as Meg Ryan's friend/Bruno Kirby's wife in "When Harry Met Sally."

Another fave role was in "The Man with One Red Shoe" as Jim Belushi's wife. Highly underrated flick.