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• Actress and author Carrie Fisher's book Wishful Drinking is an adaptation of her one-woman stage show of the same name, which chronicles her early life and success in Hollywood.New York Post: Princess Carrie Settles the Score (October 20, 2008) Barnes & Noble: Wishful Drinking

• Fast Facts

  1. Release date: December 2, 2008
  2. Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  3. ISBN 1439102252
  4. Fisher starred in a one-woman show entitled Wishful Drinking; show was still touring in the U.S. in October 2008
  5. Fisher takes on such topics as her famous parents, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, and her own marriages to agent Bryan Lourd and musician Paul SimonBarnes & Noble: Wishful Drinking
  6. She also discusses her struggles with alcoholism and mental illnessBarnes & Noble: Wishful Drinking
  7. Fisher also writes about her experience of working on Star Wars at the age of 19Barnes & Noble: Wishful Drinking
  8. Fisher's first novel, Postcards From the Edge, was released in 1987

• Carrie Fisher Quote

  "He told me later that I had turned him gay . . . by taking codeine again. And I said, 'You know, I never read that warning on the label.' I thought it said 'heavy machinery,' not homosexuality - turns out I could have been driving those tractors all along!"--On former husband Bryan Lourd, in Wishful DrinkingNew York Post: Princess Carrie Settles the Score (October 20, 2008)

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