Wishful Drinking - Starring Carrie Fisher

Wishful Drinking, the bold memoir of Carrie Fisher, is now a one woman show featuring Carrie Fisher herself. Her "sensationally bizarre life story" opened on Broadway at Studio54 last night in which she "divulges all the highs and lows of life as a Hollywood princess, including her battles with depression, mental illness and any number of addictions, affairs and breakdowns...and whatever else she can still remember."

In Just Me and My Celebrity Shadows, Ben Brantley with The New York Times reviews the show, "Barefoot in pajamas and a robe, lounging in a kitsch-filled sanctum-in-outer-space designed by Alexander V. Nichols, Ms. Fisher makes you feel you've arrived for a slumber party to swap confidences ... Ms. Fisher knows herself - or the work of fiction she admits she partly is - and the myriad ways she might be perceived. This is essential if you are going to be turned into a sex doll, a Pez dispenser and an illustration in a book of abnormal psychology."

Carrie Fisher, the child of two Hollywood stars - Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher - started out with a lot going for her and something against her, too - manic depression, which her mother says is genetic. Carrie was onstage as part of her mother's night club act at age 12, and in her young teens was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. At 19 she had her first movie role, in Shampoo. In 1977, she starred in Star Wars, her most memorable role as Princess Leia. ~Kimberly

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