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...pace of the one-liners in Wishful Drinking is a little relentless, but it's as valid a way as any of depicting the floodlit, perspectiveless world of fame where Fisher has spent her life. It probably didn't strengthen Fisher's tenuous connection to consensus reality when at 19 she became a pop-culture icon as Princess Leia in Star Wars. Fisher says that she hated Leia's Cinnabon hair ("Give me a hairstyle that further widens my already wide face!") and that George Lucas wouldn't let her wear a bra; instead, he made her tape down...
...spent the summer in Mumbai. The sites targeted in last week’s terrorist attack read like a checklist of the places where you could have found me this August. The railway station across from my newspaper office. Metro Cinema. Colaba Causeway. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower—better known simply as the Taj—and the Oberoi Hotel...
...Tourists gravitate to these places, but so do locals. I spent the weekend reading the headlines and fitting this new information to my memories...
...Instead, my friends already had stories of their own, some more recent than others. One had spent a year in Israel. His favorite Sbarro’s had been completely bombed out two weeks after he left. In New York, the Twin Towers had been obliterated; the Taj Hotel, after all, was still standing...
...spent several days near the top of the Times’s “most e-mailed” list. Keep living your life, or the terrorists will win—the same message we heard after Sept...