May the Force be with her - always.

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WISHIMAY

Friday, December 30, 2016 10:48 PM

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Non brain damaged folks use / abuse drugs, so yes, they are two separate issues.

I would posit that a sane, well adjusted person wouldn't use drugs they didn't have to, so drug users ARE damaged in some way.

As for the arguing thing, ARE YOU NEW TO THE INTERNETS?

This is what people DO.

AURAPTOR

Saturday, December 31, 2016 11:34 AM

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As for the arguing thing, ARE YOU NEW TO THE INTERNETS? This is what people DO.

No it isn't

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, January 1, 2017 3:45 AM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Non brain damaged folks use / abuse drugs, so yes, they are two separate issues.

I would posit that a sane, well adjusted person wouldn't use drugs they didn't have to, so drug users ARE damaged in some way.

As for the arguing thing, ARE YOU NEW TO THE INTERNETS? This is what people DO.

I don't normally argue, I just don't like fabrications and lies being left uncorrected.

BTW, R.I.P. Carrie and Debbie.

WISHIMAY

Sunday, January 1, 2017 7:51 AM

Damn, 2016 got one more..

William Christopher (aka Father Mulcahey from M.A.S.H.) has died today too.

I'm an agnostic, but even I liked the character. Wish more Christians were like him.

RIP William....

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 5:44 AM

Looks like yet another cocaine death.

Can't say she didn't know.

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/carrie-fisher-had-cocktail-drugs-19194
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Update, June 19: Carrie Fisher's autopsy report shows the actress had cocaine in her system when she fell ill on a plane last year, but investigators could not determine what impact the cocaine and other drugs found in her system had on her death. The report released Monday states Fisher may have taken cocaine three days before the Dec. 23 flight on which she became ill. She died four days later.

It also found traces of heroin and MDMA, which is also known as ecstasy, but that they could not determine when Fisher had taken those drugs. The findings were based on toxicology screenings done on samples taken when the Star Wars actress arrived at a Los Angeles hospital. Coroner's officials ruled Fisher died from sleep apnea and a combination of other factors.

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Carrie Fisher died from sleep apnea and a combination of other factors, but investigators were not able to pinpoint an exact cause, coroner's officials said Friday.

Among the factors that contributed to Fisher's death was buildup of fatty tissue in the walls of her arteries, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said in a news release late Friday. The release states that the Star Wars actress showed signs of having taken multiple drugs, but investigators could not determine whether they contributed to her death in December.

Her manner of death would be listed as undetermined, the agency said.

The agency did not immediately respond to a request for additional details about whether a full autopsy report and toxicology results were available.

Sleep apnea is a condition in which a person's breathing pauses during sleep. The pauses may be brief or last several minutes, according to information from the National Institutes of Health.

Fisher, 60, suffered a medical emergency on an international flight on Dec. 23 and died four days later. Her mother, longtime movie star Debbie Reynolds, died the following day.

The actresses were laid to rest together at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills, a cemetery where numerous celebrities are buried.

Fisher's brother, Todd Fisher, said he was not surprised by the results. He added that his family did not want a coroner's investigation of his sister's death. "We're not enlightened. There's nothing about this that is enlightening," he said.

"I would tell you, from my perspective that there's certainly no news that Carrie did drugs," Todd Fisher said. He noted that his sister wrote extensively about her drug use, and that many of the drugs she took were prescribed by doctors to try to treat her mental health conditions.

Fisher long battled drug addiction and mental illness. She said she smoked pot at 13, used LSD by 21 and was diagnosed as bipolar at 24. She was treated with electroshock therapy and medication.

"I am not shocked that part of her health was affected by drugs," Todd Fisher said.

He said his sister's heart condition was probably worsened by her smoking habit, as well as the medications she took. "If you want to know what killed her, it's all of it," he said.

Todd Fisher said it was difficult to blame doctors who treated his sister because they were trying to help her.

"They were doing their best to cure a mental disorder. Can you really blame them?" Todd Fisher said. "Without her drugs, maybe she would have left long ago."

Carrie Fisher made her feature film debut opposite Warren Beatty in the 1975 hit Shampoo. She also appeared in Austin Powers, The Blues Brothers, Charlie's Angels, Hannah and Her Sisters, Scream 3 and When Harry Met Sally ...

She will reprise her role as Leia Organa in the eighth installment of the core Star Wars franchise, The Last Jedi, which will be released in December.

Anthony McCartney is an entertainment writer for The Associated Press.

AURAPTOR

Friday, June 23, 2017 5:41 AM

cocaine, heroine and extacy.

3 substances which have never been in my system.

Guess that's why I never was an actor.

What is it with actors and drug abuse ?

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, June 23, 2017 6:07 AM

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cocaine, heroine and extacy.

3 substances which have never been in my system.

Guess that's why I never was an actor.

What is it with actors and drug abuse ?

They need to reside in an unreal world, particularly if they're not good at "acting" roles.

AURAPTOR

Friday, June 23, 2017 6:46 AM

IDK...Phillip Seymour Hoffman was a pretty decent actor. Robin Williams was a genius... and while he didn't die OF drugs, he certainly did abuse them, over his shortened life.

Carrie Fisher was certainly an interesting lady. I WANT to believe that, had she conquered her drug use demons, she would have been more , not less , of a fascinating individual. And yes, I know she had other " issues ".

Billie Lourd, had some beautiful yet honest words, after the news on what was found in Carrie's system.

"My mom battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life". 'She was purposefully open in all of her work about the social stigmas surrounding these diseases'.

Sinema Blaze http://cinemablaze.com/2017/06/23/carrie-fishers-cause-of-death-reveal
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No apologies, no glossing over... pretty impressive and honest. I admire that.

SHINYGOODGUY

Monday, July 17, 2017 2:33 PM

Yeah, I agree. I think a lot of her mother rubbed off on her, a pretty bold person was Carrie Fisher.

So long Princess

SGG

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
IDK...Phillip Seymour Hoffman was a pretty decent actor. Robin Williams was a genius... and while he didn't die OF drugs, he certainly did abuse them, over his shortened life.

Carrie Fisher was certainly an interesting lady. I WANT to believe that, had she conquered her drug use demons, she would have been more , not less , of a fascinating individual. And yes, I know she had other " issues ".

Billie Lourd, had some beautiful yet honest words, after the news on what was found in Carrie's system.

"My mom battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life". 'She was purposefully open in all of her work about the social stigmas surrounding these diseases'.

Sinema Blaze http://cinemablaze.com/2017/06/23/carrie-fishers-cause-of-death-reveal
ed.html

No apologies, no glossing over... pretty impressive and honest. I admire that.

SHINYGOODGUY

Sunday, August 13, 2017 10:05 AM

Thanks Second, the "Good Morning" scene is one of my all-time favorites, especially the way she sings it as the scene opens. Love this movie, Singing in the Rain.

R.I.P. Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

SGG

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Listen to Carrie Fisher narrate the biography of her mother Debbie Reynolds.

In brief video for Turner Classic Movies, Fisher narrates the biography of her mother, describing her as having so much talent, “it’s insane,” and recalling what it was like growing up with a beloved movie star as a mother. “Walking down the street with her was like being in a parade,” Fisher says. “In public, I had to share her. She belonged to everybody.”

The Singin’ in the Rain scene that made Debbie Reynolds a star

www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/28/14109892/debbie-reynolds-dies-singing-i
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Reynolds landed the part of Kathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain, the 1952 classic that would launch her career. She was to sing and dance opposite Donald O’Connor and Gene Kelly, lauded Hollywood mainstays with decades of performing experience, while she had almost none, and zero dancing experience to speak of.

That’s why, as Reynolds would later tell it, Kelly wasn’t too thrilled about her casting. Speaking to the UK’s Sunday Express in 2013, Reynolds wryly recounted how Kelly dismissed her lack of experience and showed little sympathy when she danced so much during filming that her feet bled:

"My feet were bleeding from all that dancing and when I pointed it out, Gene would say 'Clean it up!' He was very sentimental like that!”

But Reynolds wasn’t scared of Kelly, nor of the prospect of starring in a huge musical with a scant résumé. “You know, I was so dumb,” she said to the American Film Institute in 2012 with a self-aware smile, “that I didn’t feel you could fail. I felt [the part] was me, and I marched straight ahead.”

There’s no better scene from Singin’ in the Rain to illustrate Reynolds’s natural talent and hardworking nature — she’d only been learning to dance for three months when the movie was filmed — than the exuberant number “Good Morning.” Reynolds literally goes toe to toe with O’Connor and a 37-year-old Kelly, matching them step for kick-ball-change’d step as she tip-taps around the set with a perpetual grin.

Between Reynolds’s natural charisma and the two men dancing on either side of her in virtually identical outfits, it’s hard not to focus squarely on her, a brilliant performer who willed her inexperience into submission with sheer determination and skill.

“To dance with Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor in three months — well, anyone else should’ve passed out,” Reynolds told AFI. “But I didn’t. I just thought, ‘Well, let’s get started.’”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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