5 out of 5 Stars
5 Stars: Absolutely Loved It! A Favorite! A Recommendation to Anyone! A Re-Read At Anytime!
Synopsis:
The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie.
When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved—plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a (sort-of) regular teenager.
With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is Fisher’s intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time—and what developed behind the scenes. And today, as she reprises her most iconic role for the latest Star Wars trilogy, Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candor and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.
My Review:
These are my honest thoughts and feelings of this book and have no been influenced in any shape, form, or fashion.
I have to say that I picked this book up before Carrie Fisher passed. I have always been a Star Wars fan and when I saw that she had written a book about her time on the set of the first Star Wars movie I just knew I had to have it and then to read it and be sucked in by this woman’s personality as a 60 year old looking back on a time four decades ago and how she explains things it was just funny and while shocking in some moments because you learn something new it was just an amazing looking into the amazing woman’s life.
Carrie starts off by telling us all of the things that were going on that year. Who had just won the election. How Bruce (now Caitlyn) had just been named the greatest athletic of time. That people had passed. #1 song’s of her time. It gives you a glimpse of a time that you either knew of or did not know of if you had not been born yet, like myself. The world she paints for you to know her time is amazing.
She tells of getting her spot in Shampoo and even tells about her audition for Star Wars in front of Lucas. She would be auditioning for two different roles in two different movies the same day. Leia for Star Wars and Carrie for Carrie. She tells you also that she does ask for permission to write about things and publish them before she does so. So Harrison gave her permission for this or it never would have happened.
You read pages from her diaries that she kept on set and you see the angst of any normal teenager. It’s real and it’s passionate. It’s true Carrie Fisher feelings for Harrison Ford. Yes, it was an affair and he was married. Let’s not get caught up on that but she tells you that she didn’t go to the set wanting to have an affair with a married man. It just happened. And it seems that she was not the one to begin the events that happened.
It tells of the events that happened over the next three months of the affair and filming of the movie. It also tells of things after the movie and how they went to talk show after talk show. She’s visited the wax museum that has her in the god awful metal bikini that she hated. She truly hated that outfit. This book is a great memoir for Carrie Fisher and I think that everyone should read it. Get a glimpse into the life of a 19 year old actress and how she felt during the time of filming a movie that no one knew was going to turn into the occult phenomenon that it is today!
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