Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > rec.arts.sf.written > #461322

Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher passes

Cross-posted to 5 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> 
> In article <alpine.LNX.2.02.1612311024060.3890@darkstar.example.org>,
> Michael Black  <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
> >On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, The Starmaker wrote:
> >
> >> Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> >>>
> >>> In article <alpine.LNX.2.02.1612301335330.1735@darkstar.example.org>,
> >>> Michael Black  <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> In article <o458ti$71q$2@dont-email.me>,
> >>>>> Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> On 30/12/2016 4:41 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>>>>>> Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher passes
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Wait a minute...you mean to tell me Debbie is Carrie Fisher mother,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You didn't know that?
> >>>>>
> >>>> It's hard to believe.  I'm pretty sure that right when Star Wars came out,
> >>>> we knew that she was Debbie's daughter.  Maybe not before that, but once
> >>>> fame hit, they made sure we knew.
> >>>
> >>> I can remember an interview on the tube *right* after the movie
> >>> came out, somebody was interviewing Fisher and Hamill, and the
> >>> interviewer said excitedly, "And Carrie Fisher is the daughter of
> >>> Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds!" and Hamill turned to Fisher
> >>> and said, "You're WHAT? You never told me that!" and Fisher said
> >>> something on the order of "I try to keep it a secret."
> >>>
> >>> So whose daughter she was, was a big part of the publicity from
> >>> day one.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Dorothy J. Heydt
> >>> Vallejo, California
> >>> djheydt at gmail dot com
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm not even sure who Debbie Reynolds is...
> >>
> >>
> >> and Eddie Fisher, that name sounds familiar...is he an actor or singer?
> 
> He was a singer.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Fisher_(singer)
> 
> The most notorious thing he will be remembered for is that, after
> having married Reynolds in a whirl of "Aww, aren't they cute,
> America's sweethearts" publicity, he then left Reynolds when his
> daughter was (IIRC) three, to marry Elizabeth Taylor.  The story
> goes that Taylor, whose previous husband Mike Todd had been
> killed in a plane crash, went on a deliberate prowl and grabbed
> off Fisher -- why Fisher, damn if I know -- and when a columnist
> reproved her for it, said "What do you expect me to do, sleep
> alone?"
> 
> I am old enough to remember when all this was front-page news.
> 
> --
> Dorothy J. Heydt
> Vallejo, California
> djheydt at gmail dot com



Are you talking about The National Enquire??? Supermarket tabolids? That's what women read in Your days...

Back to rec.arts.sf.written | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Re: Carrie Fisher Says She Was Pressured to Lose Weight for Star Wars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-28 11:56 -0800
  Re: Carrie Fisher Says She Was Pressured to Lose Weight for Star Wars "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-12-29 22:14 +0800
  Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher passes "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-12-29 23:00 +0800
    Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher passes The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-29 12:41 -0800
      Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher passes "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-12-30 17:22 +0800
        Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher passes djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-12-30 15:15 +0000
          Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher passes The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-30 09:50 -0800
            Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher passes Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-12-31 14:41 -0800
          Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher passes Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-12-30 13:36 -0500
            Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher passes djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-12-30 20:23 +0000
              Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher  passes The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-30 15:09 -0800
                Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher  passes Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-12-31 10:24 -0500
                Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher  passes "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-12-31 12:21 -0500
                Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher  passes Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2017-01-01 23:17 -0700
                Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher  passes djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-12-31 18:26 +0000
                Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher  passes wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2016-12-31 13:36 -0500
                Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher   passes The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-31 11:58 -0800
                Re: Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher  passes "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-12-31 17:44 -0500
  Re: Carrie Fisher Says She Was Pressured to Lose Weight for Star Wars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-30 09:54 -0800
  Re: Carrie Fisher Says She Was Pressured to Lose Weight for Star Wars mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2017-01-01 22:09 -0800
    Re: Carrie Fisher Says She Was Pressured to Lose Weight for Star Wars wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2017-01-03 23:03 -0500
      Re: Carrie Fisher Says She Was Pressured to Lose Weight for Star Wars Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2017-01-04 00:39 -0800
        Re: Carrie Fisher Says She Was Pressured to Lose Weight for Star Wars hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2017-01-04 02:37 -0800

csiph-web