HBO has also been working on a film about Carrie and Debbie called Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. HBO will air Wishful Drinking on Januat 9:00 PM ET. Wishful Drinking was directed by Fenton Bailey. HBO filmed Wishful Drinking and added interviews with Carrie’s family and friends, and archival footage of her life, to turn it into a documentary film. She won an Outer Critcs Circle Award for the show. In a culture where so many female artists are benched by the time they are 40, these two kept going long afterwards.Īfter the cut, trailers for both films, and a 2011 Oprah interview with Carrie and Debbie.Ĭarrie wrote and performed a one-woman show on Broadway, Wishful Drinking, which she performed at Studio 54 in 2009. I cheered for her success as she broke out of her Princess Leia buns to avoid type-casting and become a bestselling author as well. I saw Star Wars: A New Hope as a teenager in theaters during its original run.

I grew up watching Debbie in Singin’ in the Rain and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, then enjoyed her later turn from spunky ingenue to crotchedy maternal type as she aged. Their accomplishments are too long to list here, so I’ll just link to their Wiki pages and try not to start crying again. Both women were multi-talented performers with decades long careers. In the wake of the tragic loss of both Carrie Fisher on December 27, and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, just one day later on December 28, HBO is changing its schedule to honor the two women.

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