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...adversary was General Abdul Gamal Nasser, the president of Egypt, but Roger D. Fisher '43 was determined to get what he wanted...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Out of the Classroom and Into the Fire | 9/27/1990 | See Source »

...Egypt was in the midst of a tense conflict with Israel. Fisher went to Cairo to interview the Egyptian president for American television...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Out of the Classroom and Into the Fire | 9/27/1990 | See Source »

Before the cameras were set to roll, Nasser wanted to know what questions Fisher would be asking. The Law School professor started to comply, supplying the president with the relatively easy first question...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Out of the Classroom and Into the Fire | 9/27/1990 | See Source »

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE. Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine embody the glamorous wit of Carrie Fisher's novel about an actress in rehab and her movie-star mom. Under the sorcerer's wand of director Mike Nichols, this terrific comedy is a Terms of Endearment in which nobody dies but everyone hurts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 24, 1990 | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...dish over with quickly. Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) is a drug- addicted actress whose mother, Doris Mann (Shirley MacLaine), was a big musical comedy star with a drinking problem and whose singer-father walked out when Suzanne was a child. Actress Carrie Fisher, author of the novel and screenplay Postcards from the Edge, is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. But it shouldn't matter whether this wonderful comedy is really about famous people who make life tough for themselves and the ones they love most. It's like worrying whether a historical Hamlet really lusted after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spin And Sizzle | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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