On what would have been Carrie Fisher’s 69th birthday, Billie Lourd — among the most private of actors — posted a very personal and emotional tribute to her mother on her Instagram account. “My mom would’ve been 69 years old today,” Lourd wrote. “Which still feels shockingly young because this …
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In the history of Saturday Night Live, was anything as secretive and anticipated as the moment this season right before Timothée Chalamet appeared onstage to sing the first of three Bob Dylan numbers? Which songs would they be? How would he sound? For me, it was all strangely familiar — …
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Billie Lourd is acknowledging the dark feelings of grief on the eighth anniversary of her mom Carrie Fisher‘s death. On Friday, the actress remembered her late mother with an emotional tribute, describing the “dread” of mourning Fisher as an “emotional tropical storm.” “It has been 8 years since my mom …
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As Dan Aykroyd reminds us in his enjoyable new Audible Original, Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude, there was a moment in 1978 when his friend and collaborator John Belushi was at the center of a smash-hit album, movie, and TV show, all at once. The album in question was …
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In January 2019, Paul Simon awoke from a dream. Some voice in his head had informed him, deep within his REM cycle, that he was going to work on a project called “Seven Psalms.” The singer-songwriter behind “The Sound of Silence,” “A Bridge Over Troubled Waters,” “Love Me Like a …
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It’s no secret that Jodie Foster was once up for the part of Princess Leia in Star Wars — a role that became iconic for Carrie Fisher. But in a new interview on The Tonight Show Foster explained that the only reason she passed was because of a scheduling issue. …
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Carrie Fisher’s final film,Wonderwell, is set to release this summer after seven “perilous” years in the making. The film’s first trailer offers a glimpse at the fantasy coming-of-age story Fisher finished filming scenes for in 2016, just weeks before she died on Dec. 27, 2016 after suffering a heart attack …
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May the Fourth be you, Princess Leia. On Thursday, to celebrate the Star Wars-themed holiday, the late Carrie Fisher was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where she was celebrated by her daughter Billie Lourd and Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill. Surrounded by C-3PO, R2-D2, and …
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Billie Lourd has issued a public statement saying that the siblings of her mother, Carrie Fisher — Todd, Joely, and Tricia Leigh Fisher — would not be invited to the ceremony commemorating Fisher’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday. “Days after my mom died, her brother and …
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was Star Wars… and only Star Wars. Oh, you could buy a novelization of George Lucas’ cosmic saga of good and evil, as well as a Marvel Comics’ adaptation of the film that kept the post-Death Star story going …
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