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Recently, a young actor at a party complimented actress turned novelist- screenwriter Carrie Fisher on her career transition, saying, "Gee, it must be great now that you are a writer. Now you get to call the shots...
These days Ms. Fisher is needling the world with several potent concoctions. A movie adaptation of her best-selling snort-and-chortle novel, Postcards from the Edge, has opened big. It features Fisher's screenplay directed by Mike Nichols, with Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine as the star-worn daughter and mother. There is also a new paperback edition of her novel to add to the media jet stream. And Fisher's lovelorn modern romance, Surrender the Pink, has just been published...
While the overall theory may be intricate, Fisher says that one does not have to be a scholar or diplomat to understand the basics...
...fact, next week he will deliver a talk in a nearby Belmont school, titled "Negotiating with Saddam Hussein and with your kids." Fisher recalls his response to a friend who inquired if there was in fact any difference between...
...there is," says Fisher, "but not very much...