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Carrie Fisher Comes Full Circle
4:33AM Seth | Forgive us. Forgive us Leia, forgive us Jabba, forgive us The Force—but this was the first thing that occurred to us watching Carrie Fisher plug her latest “I took lots of drugs and alcohol and married a gay dude” memoir, Enter Drinking (wait, that’s not it. Up, No Olives? It’ll come to us eventually) on the Today Show this morning. Seriously—how did this seismic, evolutionary species reassignment come to pass, and do the universe’s laws of equilibrium require that the slug-like crime lord now be cavorting by some Tatooinian resort pool in a bikini? After the jump, Fisher talks about taking acid with Cary Grant or something. More »
CAA’s Bryan Lourd to Carrie Fisher: ‘Your Codeine Made Me Gay’
5:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Though the sight of Princess Leia in a gold bikini could make any gay geek question his sexuality, being married to Carrie Fisher apparently had the opposite effect on CAA superagent Bryan Lourd. The two were together for three years (he fathered Fisher’s daughter Billie in 1992) before Lourd famously left Fisher for another man. Now, in her new memoir Wishful Drinking, Fisher claims that Lourd blamed her and her pill-popping ways for making him gay. Page Six has the excerpt: More »
Did They Or Didn’t They? (Botox, That Is)
4:05AM Molly Friedman | A story in Sunday’s LAT did the unthinkable by finally pointing out the big Botoxed elephant in the room: no matter how painfully obvious it is to viewers, many stars who get nipped and tucked insist on denying it. But as the Times argues, just how many episodes of this season’s Dancing With The Stars or Desperate Housewives can we sit through before drawing our own conclusions? Have you seen Priscilla Presley lately? And if celebrities are going so far as to undergo actual “head transplants,” when will they finally start fessing up? We took a look at a few of the stars in question, such as Teri Hatcher and Carrie Fisher, to innocently throw some visual evidence into the mix. More »
