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Carrie Fisher RIP

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Very open and interesting lady, gave great interviews and witty.


    Childhood Legend because of Star Wars. Huge loss for all Sci Fi fans


    RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,270 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Carrie Fisher RIP. She shull live on forever in Star Wars. She was a legend and will be forever.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    RIP her mental health advocacy was admirable


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Absolutely gutted we never got to see her become the Light Sabre weilding Jedi we knew she was .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,314 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    She's one with the Force now


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    RIP



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭daisybelle2008


    Loved her books, very witty writer.. Postcards from the edge is brilliant imho.

    Paul Simon wrote a Graceland about her after their divorce, she was also briefly engaged to Dan Ackroyd. Incredibly interesting life.

    RIP, Carrie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,688 ✭✭✭brevity


    Ah man. RIP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,498 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Sad to hear of her passing, Rest in Peace Carrie. Apart from her work in Star Wars, I also liked her in Drop Dead Fred.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    I knew she stopped breathing for a few minutes but thought when she was still alive she had a chance of pulling through. Very tough on her family especially her mam and son. So sad to die at Christmas too. May she Rest In Peace.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    I'm normally a bit allergic to Oprah, but I've been watching this interview with Carrie and her mother, Debbie Reynolds.



    There's a very sad moment (about 32 minutes in) where Debbie said she felt that as a mother she protected Carrie and worried about what would happen to her after she was gone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,388 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    A true star. Tragically outlived by her Golden Era Hollywood Star mother. Imagine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Gatling wrote: »
    Absolutely gutted we never got to see her become the Light Sabre weilding Jedi we knew she was .

    This ****s me off most of all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,697 ✭✭✭Lisha


    I loved her in Catastrophe. And generally just thought she was an interesting, funny, humble, witty and extraordinary person.
    Very sad for family, especially her mother and daughter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,230 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Rip. 60 years old is well to young.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,867 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    RIP

    I believe her daughter is in Scream Queens with ear muffs like Leia buns


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Gatling wrote: »
    Absolutely gutted we never got to see her become the Light Sabre weilding Jedi we knew she was .

    I'm rarely that touched by celebrity deaths but I actually welled up tonight. On the plus side, though, she is reported to have a large role in episode 8 so hopefully her last movie in this iconic role will be a fitting swansong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,066 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Probably my first crush, as SW was such a big part of my early teenage years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭bop1977


    R2d2 and Princess Leia gone in the same year.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,634 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    That scene.......

    RIP


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Such a shame. I think we all held out hope the last few days but it never sounded like things would end up ok after Friday.

    Of all of 2016's celebrity deaths this has hit me the worst. Carrie was an iconic part of my childhood and by all accounts a great person.

    RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    Very sad news :(

    RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    I knew little of her outside Star Wars, but I did know she suffered manic depression. She was on a Stephen Fry documentary and said ECT helped blow the cement in her brain. RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    I caught her one woman show and thought it was brilliant. It was autobiographical, and by the look of it rather healing for her.

    Godspeed Princess.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,259 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Even though Carrie was best known as Princess Leia in Star Wars, I loved her role in The Blues Brothers. Hilarious!

    RIP Carrie Fisher.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    I don't know why I feel really sad about this death. I wouldn't have considered her as an amazing actor but from all accounts she was a really interesting funny/witty person. Perhaps it's because I was very young when the original Star Wars movies came out which is arguably the best age in life to have seen those movies. I remember I felt full of awe and wonder about this galaxy far far away. Her non-princess-like ballsy attitude was quite forward thinking at the time especially when you realise these moveis were made from 1977 onwards. I know some don't like anything sci-fi but Star Wars was an incredibly special unique movie trilogy that I never get tire of watching.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭Patty O Furniture


    Birneybau wrote: »
    A true star. Tragically outlived by her Golden Era Hollywood Star mother. Imagine.

    Her mother got some award afaik it was a lifetime achievement in Jan & Carrie came out to give it to her.

    & just happen to see a repeat of 8 Out Of 10 Cats on Mon nite, she was asked where she will spend Christmas, she said next dr to her mother, but only in the morning :p
    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    RIP

    I believe her daughter is in Scream Queens with ear muffs like Leia buns

    Afaik, she was in the last Star Wars film, but no doubt amongst the many cameos it had in it!

    So sad to see her go, RIP Carrie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 JustDee


    So sad! RIP :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Quite shocked to hear about, had seen her twice in the last few weeks, first on Graham Norton, then a few days ago on 8 out of 10 Cats and she was so witty, wonderful and full of cheeky fun


    http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a817367/star-wars-actress-carrie-fisher-recalls-moment-she-got-a-vibrator-for-christmas/

    RIP Carrie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    wil wrote:
    Quite shocked to hear about, had seen her twice in the last few weeks, first on Graham Norton, then a few days ago on 8 out of 10 Cats and she was so witty, wonderful and full of cheeky fun


    She was cheeky and irreverent, that's why I was so sure she would have taken the jokes in the previous thread in good spirit.

    The recent spate of famous folk leaving us only serves to hammer home the point - death does not descriminate. Sure Kim K and her ilk have a better chance of beating illness than a poor third world child, but death doesnt answer to fame or affluence. Health is your wealth.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    She wanted her obituary to state that she "drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra."

    Great way with words.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Good scene from When Harry Met Sally.




  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've never seen any of the Star Wars, but I really liked Carrie Fisher. Whenever I've seen her interviewed I've always thought she was smart, witty and acutely self-aware, and she had a grounded quality that was totally at odds with her status as a child of old Hollywood royalty.

    She was a lovely woman who suffered terribly with her mental health but still came at life smiling, a rare and beautiful quality that the world needs more of.

    I feel so sad for her elderly mother, it's just not meant to happen this way around.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,516 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    This ****s me off most of all.

    Why? :confused:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,724 ✭✭✭seenitall


    Candie wrote: »
    I've never seen any of the Star Wars, but I really liked Carrie Fisher. Whenever I've seen her interviewed I've always thought she was smart, witty and acutely self-aware, and she had a grounded quality that was totally at odds with her status as a child of old Hollywood royalty.

    She was a lovely woman who suffered terribly with her mental health but still came at life smiling, a rare and beautiful quality that the world needs more of.

    I feel so sad for her elderly mother, it's just not meant to happen this way around.

    Yes, there was a lot of self-awareness there, I am glad that she seemed to have stuff figured out more or less, by the end. I can only guess that being at peace with oneself and the world is priceless for a mental health sufferer and an ex-addict.

    I watched her on the Graham Norton couple of weeks ago and she seemed to me to be in a fragile physical state, and same on the Jonathan Ross last year. Sharp as ever, but fragile. So I wasn't surprised about the news.

    It is devastating for her family of course, but if you watch "Postcards From The Edge", you will see a very complex and intense relationship of the protagonist with her mother, which leads me to believe that, probably, this was a family where most things which needed to be said, weren't shied away from. There is a comfort in that. I can't imagine Carrie to be any other way, really. The force is with her, I'm sure. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭Derco


    bop1977 wrote: »
    R2d2 and Princess Leia gone in the same year.

    Also the actor who played Red Leader in the first film died last February.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drewe_Henley


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Apparently she was a script doctor (uncredited writer brought in to fix/improve a script) for a lot of movies, including Sister Act, Hook, The Last Action Hero, The Wedding Singer, Coyote Ugly, Scream 3 and the Star Wars Prequels.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 405 ✭✭HS3


    Jees I didn't know Debbie Reynolds was still alive!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    When a child dies and a parent is old...there is always risk to the parents health


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,040 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    So sad, both gone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    R.I.P. to them both :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Oh jeez that's horrible,


    The poor family!

    How do you deal with something like that??

    RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Even though Carrie was best known as Princess Leia in Star Wars, I loved her role in The Blues Brothers. Hilarious!

    RIP Carrie Fisher.

    That was on rte in the very early hours of St.Stephen's Day. She was quite the looker, in a girl next door kind of way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    Anyone saying that this isn't very sad has a heart of stone

    Carrie's brother and Debbie's son must be devastated


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭exaisle


    Debbie Reynolds, her mum....RIP...just announced...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2



    Just pronounced dead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,549 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Dear God this is horrible-that poor family. Don't matter about how much wealth one has, something like this-there are no words.

    My condolences. RIP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Duff


    I can't even believe this. Crazy. RIP.


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