Carrie Fisher: Youth and Beauty Aren't Accomplishments
I admire the fact that she is not hiding in a corner and crying at these goobers. I really like her tweets back. Our society has taken the individual and lumped them up into pseudo clones of imagination. There are some women who have put in huge amounts of time and effort to "look good", but the fact CF is just accepting life as it happens should be just as ok. Being 58, I am with her 100% and find her stand for her individual interpretation of life laudable.
We aged along the same time line.
Happy New Year, Brett.
Jan
The explanation was lost on one of our ship's officers who felt her drawings of how things should be were more real than the items in the drawing. The Captain would wander by and ask, "Why is this changed what was wrong with it as previously done or set up? He was of the functional asethetic mind set and drew charts give our more functionally illiterates a clear understanding of the goal. The Mate wanted something to put on the wall in the office to impress visitors.
Carrie Fisher has a good attitude and her looks have softened with age, a good look. At least she is not hyping some facial products, as does another actress, leaving out the multiple cosmetic surgeries and botox treatments in which she has indulged.
Jan
Carrie Fisher rocks, though. Did you see her response to comments on How do I explain to my little girl about "Princess Leia in chains in the gold bikini"? She said something to the effect of, "Tell her that I was kidnapped by a giant slug and put into that bikini against my will. Then tell her that I killed the slug with the very chains he had bound me with."
I have heard gamers rave about Mark Hamel's Joker.
Jan
manic-depression tendencies for years -- could have
an effect on your looks! -- j
p.s. found an article::: http://www.healthyplace.com/bipolar-d...
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them ... I dated a woman who had been abused as a child,
from which three distinct personalities developed. . she was
either the precious little girl, the militant defender or
the unifier in the middle. . I was the first ever to make love
with the defender, and it was extraordinary. . she was
so smart and so determined to pass on none of the negative
stuff ... a very strong person, over all. -- j
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years, starting when she was about 2 and lasting
until she was about 8. . . . she was deathly afraid of
bridges, because he had held her out of the car window
when crossing a bridge, saying, "If you tell our secrets,
I will drop you." . . some people are just evil. -- j
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Carrie Fisher's story reminds me a bit of Claudia Christensen's. (The latter was Susan Ivanovna in Babylon 5.) Two actresses who tore themselves up with addiction and psychiatric problems...but ultimately clawed their way back into reality.
Thanks for the excellent link.
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I really need to work on my delivery, at least in purely written word. Nothing is funny in explanation. Just proof the comedian is not ready for prime time.
I will take your explanation as a complement. I have recently had my 63rd bday. I have never been particularly attractive, but I still do two types of martial arts. At one of them, I regularly beat up on nice 20+ year old guys who are bigger than I am.
Overall, I agree with you. As women increasingly have professions and lives of their own, we will have more to 'bring to the table' than bloodlines and bodies. But this is what society has accorded us for millennia, so it will take some time.
Happy New Year.
Jan, preening
I know you do it in the one I take part in, but I think you do it in the other one too. Weren't the black belts complaining about how brutal you were?
Jan
Good morning, Wm!
Jan
Of course I assume some physical features women find attractive in men are similarly survival traits. Both sexes have a ways to go to separate the animal from the intellectual. Sometimes I wonder how much of each is needed.
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I had heard the "...up with which I shall not put." but had forgotten it! Thanks for the reminder.
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The answer of course is "you know what I meant."
"Did I? How could I know when you didn't?
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That said, I was a 16 year old nerd when Return of the Jedi premiered and I thought she looked great in that good bikini. :)
Second, she has the right attitude -- very Leia-ish.
Third, She's a good writer, which makes her multi-talented. Hey, Carrie -- you go, woman.
bikinis vs Brains bad schools
Part of the job of an actor or actress is looking the part. Had Harrison Ford put on a lot of weight and had a beer belly he would either have had to spend months in the gym or he wouldn't have looked as good as he does. In my opinion, in the old and new pictures of Han Solo that have been going around he looks real now.
To be fair, Carrie Fisher has spent the intervening years behind the camera instead of in front of it as Ford has, so she hasn't had the continuous pressure to keep in shape.
Jan
I guess I am mostly reacting to her comments about youth and beauty which also included the fact that they only wanted 3/4 of her and she had to lose about 35 lbs by diet and exercise. She seems to feel that was sexist and unfair.
I think that's part of being an actor. Lots of male actors spend a lot of time in the gym, it's a visual medium and how you look is an important part of doing your job. So I'm not so inclined to be sympathetic.
Now, if she had gotten the criticism because she was on stage getting a screenwriting award, I would agree.
Instead of talking about CF, they should at the gym admiring their own beauty and accomplishments, something I would strongly support.
I try to ignore it because for every person who does something great like help create an iconic sci-fi character there are countless people who have not accomplished something like that but love to complain.