...And Carrie’s brother Todd was named in honor of Mike Todd, Liz Taylor’s husband that died in a plane crash, causing Eddie Fisher to spend a lot of time with the grieving widow... which lead to the infamous divorce and Fisher becoming Taylor’s fourth husband.

I hear ya. I went thru so much turmoil with my sister, we were the original Edith/Mary from Downton Abbey.

...And Debbie Reynolds’ and Eddie Fisher’s marriage ended because Elizabeth Taylor had an affair with him, marrying him after he and Reynolds divorced. It’s like the Kardashian web of relationships except this web has talent.

Totally. And the great thing about her was that it would be a lovingly sardonic joke, not a cutting bitter insult. That’s a lesson right there in letting go of pointless family resentment. I need to try to apply it. But it’s hard.

That’s what I thought too. And Gary.

Carrie’s book Wishful Drinking has a Hollywood star chart that explains it all very well.

Joely Fisher is the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Connie Stevens.

I get so tearful, still, reading about Carrie and Debbie, two complete strangers. Maybe it’s because Carrie was so open about her struggles, and her novels were so honest and funny, that you feel like you knew her and her mother.

Kind of like Leo and Kate. They’re still very close friends, and they had no shenanigans offscreen.

I keep thinking of that scene with her and Bruno Kirby in bed talking about their friends’ shitty dating lives.

Seriously, the one image I KEEP coming back to in my head since she died is the one of her leaving the bookstore walking down the stairs waving goodbye after telling Sally “someone is staring at you from personal growth.”

Her death is one of the rare celebrity deaths that has really impacted me. Not only because I loved Princess Leia as a kid (I used to beg my mom to do the “cinnamon buns” hair) but becasue I’ve been able to share this love with my daughter.

After Mark star faded a bit, he accepted the main role in a video game called wing commander III. Back then video games where experimenting with interactive full motion videos. Mark didn’t consider it below his dignity to act in a small digital production, despite being the lead in the biggest movie of all time at the…

My best friend was a guy I knew since age 12. After about 30 years of almost daily contact, I moved 2 states away. We were reduced to increasingly rare phone conversations and my occasional visits back. One thing that always made us both laugh was no matter how much time passed, whenever we spoke again, it was like…

Yes, everything Kevin Smith has said about working with him made him seem like one of the most normal and gracious “stars” ever.

Gonna be rocking the ‘wise old jedi’ look until Kylo inevitably inducts Luke into the travelling troupe of force ghosts.

Everything I’ve heard about Mark Hamill also makes me think he’s a lovely person. I heard him on Rob Paulsen’s (the voice of Pinky from Pinky and the Brain) podcast and he was just amazingly grounded, humble, and kind.

Hamill is really working that King George V look.

I would consider my life a smashing success if it ends up being filled with friendships like the one they had.