European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Screenwriter Carrie Fisher front and actresses meryl Streep right and Shirley Maclaine joined in the making of postcards from the Edge. By Irene Lacher los Angeles times Carrie Fisher is getting High. Not mind you on Percodani Fisher s Nasty drug of Choice in header Darker Days. Right now her vehicle for getting a Buzz is a vehicle a Majestic Black Bow to be exact. It is flying Down Coldwater Canyon Boulevard Fisher at the Helm on a particularly glorious Day in los Angeles. The scratchy Strain of Don Henley s the boys of summer co Meson the radio and Fisher leans Over to pump up the volume. Quot this is the great part of l.a.,&Quot she shouts above the Roar. "l.a. A Rock n Roll. The car. It s simple. It s like the philosophy of Medicine. The philosophy of Medicine is take this and you la feel better. I like the philosophy of driving which is get in this and you la get  Fisher is truly Riding High this morning. Her second novel surrender the Pink is being unpacked in bookstores. The film postcards from the Edge is opening to enormous Box offices and great reviews with a script penned by Fisher based loosely on her first Best Selling novel about a Young actress who goes through drug rehabilitation. Shirley Maclaine and meryl Streep play Mother daughter movie stars at Odds and Mike Nichols directs. She s writing a screenplay of surrender the Pink the Story of a woman obsessed with her sex husband s new relationship which Steven Spielberg has already bought for a Cool million. And another Fisher screenplay in Progress Christmas in Las vegas about under age kids on the run has been snapped up by producer Dawn steel. The once beleaguered daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher is no longer just Maclaine and Streep play Mother and daughter in postcard. A another Hollywood Princess. Her Well documented angst Quot that jewish thing Quot As her Mother Calls it is finally serving Fisher Well. Because these Days Fisher s own Quot Mishe Goss Quot a her extreme need for control that once prompted her to reach for drugs is now making her reach for pens and yellow Legal pads so she can write but in longhand the books and screenplays that become instant Best Sellers and major Hollywood movies. Under the circumstances Fisher would like to take this Opportunity to Tell you that the Quot emotional stuff Quot in her work is mainly True particularly when it s about her but Many of the events and characters Are fiction get it fiction. Quot they trivialize me one Way or the other Quot she says. Quot either i Don t write anything and it s All just my life and everyone is everyone i know and i just write it All Down or i did t write it at  Fisher 33, has grown up to be something even More horrifying than a Mere Hollywood Princess. She has looks brains wealth heritage numerous talents Vas Success friends Fame and wit. After years of turmoil and some torment she has become that most annoying fascinating and unlikely creature a the woman who has almost everything. Fisher was an intense observant child weaned on a diet of old movies and books. She began scribbling poetry and prose in journals which Are now piled in Reynolds garage. Some of Fisher s Youthful musings took on a curious form. When she was 14 or so she put pen to paper to instruct her Mother on How she should manage her life weighed Down As it was by Money and marital woes during her second marriage to shoe magnate Harry Karl. Reynolds later returned the favor. When Fisher dropped out of Beverly Hills High school in the 11th Grade Reynolds suggested a strongly a that Fisher bag her plan to perform in nightclubs and attend drama school in London. Fisher says it was the last fight she Ever had with her Mother. Her Mother won. And As things turned out Mother was right. Fisher made her film debut at 17 As the precocious Nymphet to Warren Beatty s promiscuous Hairdresser in shampoo. Soon she was plucked to play the part of Princess Leia in Star wars a role that gave her the dubious but notable Opportunity to sport Quot insane Asylum Quot hair. She recently returned from Minnesota for the filming of drop dead Fred. Ever the Quot eve Arden character Quot she plays Phoebe Cate s Best Friend. All the while she was keeping track of things in her journals treating her bigger than life life As though it were a screenplay. The opening line of surrender the Pink a Quot Dinah Kaufman lost her virginity a total of three times Quot a came from entries Fisher jotted Down when she was 18. _ Fisher lived in new York in her Early 20s, joining the saturday night live Crew and through them hooking up with Paul Simon. Like the Alliance Between the fictitious Dinah and her sex husband Rudy Fisher s relationship with Simon lasted seven years less than one of which they spent As troubled husband and wife. She says Rudy is a composite of Strong men 7 0 stripes Magazine october 18, 1990