Wishful Drinking is fluff, I guess, in the sense that it won’t change your life or even your lunch break. See, that’s clever, but isn't it also just the teensiest bit profound? Okay, not Schopenhauer profound, but still. Sometimes I see children sobbing in airports and I think, “Aww. You know what’s funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You’d think we could remember finding out we weren’t immortal. Speaking of graves, I tell my younger friends that one day they’ll be at a bar playing pool and they’ll look up at the television set and there will be a picture of Princess Leia with two dates underneath, and they’ll say “aOr there's this: I’m not exactly up on Hollywood tell-alls, so maybe I’m overlooking some classics of the genre, but I don’t imagine there’d be that many celebrities out there who are blessed with either Fisher’s command of the American vernacular or her healthy perspective on her own fame: She’s just a really, really bad heterosexual.’ And it takes a special kind of daughter to describe her mother’s sexual orientation in the following terms: ‘Not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian. How often do you find the word ‘father’ and the phrase ‘high-quality pussy’ in the same paragraph? Right, not very. There’s a reason he got all that high-quality pussy-except for the Miss Louisiana thing, and anyone can make one mistake. When it comes to her family’s dirty laundry-of which there are piles and piles lying around, hopelessly soiled-she’s not what you’d call the soul of discretion: Other than that, though, she’s really great: she’s smart as a whip, wickedly funny and she swears like a teamster, whatever that is.Īll the same, I definitely wouldn’t want her for a daughter, or even a distant cousin. And she’s a recovering alcoholic/drug addict with bipolar disorder and a lavishly messed-up family. But now that I’ve read Wishful Drinking, I kind of want Carrie Fisher for my girlfriend. When the original Star Wars trilogy came out, I was too young to have nurtured any grotty, pubescent fantasies about Princess Leia (though I guess by the time of Return of the Jedi, I was old enough to be confusedly excited by those harem scenes with Jabba the Hutt).
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