European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Magazine Star skirmishes t missed out Ohall the do Bree Carrie Fisher with Debbie in by Anna qu1ndlen new York times Carrie hot but not a blazing Home but not quite at Home is wondering where to til herself she is staying temporarily at the Sherry Netherland hotel in new York be cause her Wisl Side apartment is Messy and the hotel Riding High with Star she is living through an unremitting publicity aim thai demands suites and accompanies Success Ful she ills outrageous stones on local television talk shows to relieve the tedium of travelling from town to eve every she is asked about science he1 inn and special cinematic of i dont know what there going to a with me she part Deadpan part Betic enjoys in at this Inlet Ween in not Jodie Foster and in not Ellen Carrie Fisher is neither the profane Nymphet she played in nor the freewheeling lodger she just portrayed in a television version of William inges come Little with Joanne Woodward and Laurence she is certainly not the Spacey Princess the cause of All this fuss because of the Surprise Success of the space fantasy Sot and Shes not like Debbie Rey who is her nor Eddie who is her father although there is a Trace of Reynolds in the round Cheeks and echoes of Fisher in the Lithe a column of dark Black stacks and Brown hair and eyes in the Sun Shine colors of her hotel Carrie Fisher was somewhat under cover who u say what parts nuke up anyone who has seen her own face blown up to the size of a billboard Thunder thighs lungs and she they have there ads that make 11 look like i around the Galaxy seducing then some one Calls me Apple with tyrolean Huir i dont forget these All very but How Many Young women play Only two screen roles and get this kind of attention at age 20 said it depends on whal is meant by at in not Slie when 1 went and saw shampoo 1 sat next to a woman who kept telling me in to quiet All through the and i guess my hairy earphones from Star Imas Anonymous As i knew Star wars would have an Audi but it would have been to think it would be this we knew it was Guing to be but we really have Eit Wisd and As she travelled across the coun try with her Mark Samiu and i Tarry san Fisher was asked Over and Over again about the psychology of the hidden and finally the three a them got so punchy that they began to joke about the films mafia backing and its visceral Ca that is the kind of person Carrie usher there is the serious Side and there is the sarcastic Side and both Are expressed in the same even with n drop in Pilch for 11 heavy i wanted to say to these people lighten till Only a Bui sometimes it had to be done their Troy t think this film is about heroes in our hat it has to be set in another time and place because we con find no heroes in our the closest thing we have is Woody you this usually stopped the Are those who would contend thai Kishorn show business career began at As the progeny tit one of americas bes known broken Homes this is at least artly although it took die Chubby faced child a while to figure out what her bouncy Blond Mother did fur a i knew that my Mother came Home with Orange makeup and funny hair and i knew she was doing something that seemed vaguely i remember going to the set of allow the went Wai won and there she playing it look a to decipher the import of the albums filled with press clip pings that sat in a sent by broken hearted Debbie fans on the occasion of the Reynolds Fisher it was a cumulative realizing Thul my parents were americas Sweet hearts gone said drawing on a i missed out on All the scan actress Fisher As Princess Leia in won scene with Peter dal stuff because 1 was Only Ocean Dahal at the Lar Tineil but when t did find out about it didst seem to have much to do with them or with she attended Beverly Hulk High where the students were the children tit gaffers and producers and grips and direct and All the Girts wanted to be models and and for the class play was really there was your usual quota of banging lockers and passing said win admitted to being the kind of student who was extraordinarily adept at Dop Haitin the school nurses i guess it was just better dressed hum your average Hlub i went there in years and then i gradually slopped going to school what she did then was appear in the chorus when her Mother starred on Broad Way in Irene in she never did got a i although she did time later attending and so i can use Syno Nymo usin a at Fisher was in the churns at she was in the she went to the West coast to have her tonsils Cut and was East in the part of Lee Grants pubescent daughter in she had one memo Rable which cannot be reprinted Here and which was not entirely to her and though Sharp Odid not immediately launch her she went to after the tonsils were to study acting for some months it did prepare her for other one was a joint casting featuring the directors Brian be Lulu and George both were looking far a Young woman one for a girl with unusual Powers who would destroy a senior prom the other for a Princess in a faraway Galaxy caught in the Middle of u when i was told about shampoo they Warren and you proposition recalled and so the Laggy descriptions of the Rale in which Sac didst and Star wan which she did not Laic and even Ber Mother liked this she thought in was going to be like sing in the said Carrie not the faintest suggestion of a smile Cross ing her Appl cheeked you know two a and a August 1977 the stars and stripes Page 13
