Fisher recently unearthed the diaries she wrote as a 19-year-old playing Princess Leia. They were the inspiration for a memoir that crackles with one-linersBefore being cast as Princess Leia in Star Wars,Carrie Fisher thought she knew approximately fame. Her mother is Debbie Reynolds, star of various MGM musicals, and while her father was the crooner Eddie Fisher,who caused a sensation when he left Reynolds and their young children to marry Elizabeth Taylor. But the fame that Fisher knew as a child of celebrity parents was, she later discovered, or “associative fame. Byproduct fame. Fame as the salad to some other,slightly more filling main dish.” When she became well-known in her own right, she was completely unprepared. “What is happening?” she would ask herself. How did we get here? Where is here? How long will it final? What is it? execute I deserve it? What does this form me?”Her sudden leap into the limelight at the age of 19 forms the spine of The Princess Diarist, and which Fisher calls her “sort of memoir”. This isn’t her first “sort of memoir”,but whereas 2008’s Wishful Drinking focused on her mental health (Fisher has bipolar disorder), this one examines her troubles with celebrity and sex.
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Source: theguardian.com