![]() It features portions of her stage show, archival footage and interviews with friends and family. “Wishful Drinking” the book, based on the Broadway play, was on the New York Times bestseller list for 14 weeks, and is available in paperback from Simon & Schuster.Īn HBO documentary special based on “Wishful Drinking” was taped at the South Orange Performing Arts Center in New Jersey in June 2010. Carrie received a 2010 Grammy Nomination in the Best Spoken Word Album category for her bestselling memoir “Wishful Drinking.” “Wishful Drinking” premiered in 2006, in Los Angeles, and has since completed sell-out runs in theatres across the U.S., culminating in a wildly successful engagement at Broadway's Studio 54 from October 2009-January 2010, winning the prestigious 2010 Outer Critics' Circle Award. Carrie is the life of the party in this uproarious and sobering look at her “Hollywood hangover.” Forever changed, Carrie’s life did not stay picture perfect. Which is probably why her one-woman show Wishful Drinking, a wry exploration of everything from her notorious Star Wars fame to the addictions that eventually landed her in a psych ward, is. The daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Carrie became a cultural icon when she starred as Princess Leia in the first Star Wars trilogy at 19 years old. In “Wishful Drinking,” Carrie Fisher recounts the true and intoxicating tale of her life as a Hollywood legend, told with the same wry wit she poured into bestsellers like Postcards from the Edge and The Best Awful. ![]()
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