Has Carrie FISHER totally cooked her brain?!1

[UTUSN]

A couple of months ago, some clips of her as a judge on some reality show were featured on E!'s "The Soup" with Joel McHALE. She was totally mush-mouthed, SO inarticulate as to make Paula ABDUL look sober and coherent.

And she's been the co-host for a little while with Robert OSBORNE, introducing classic movies on (AMC?). OSBORNE has been the smoothest of the smooth presenters for years, making whatever script he reads sound like natural conversation. The couple of times I've seen Ms FISHER, she has been over-eager as an "expert" on movies, heaping childish praise on what are acknowledged classics, and just making inane comments.

Yesterday, with CHAPLIN's "The Great Dictator," she attempted to interrupt and babbled about how this film was so brave because it was released a year before the U.S. entered the war and it therefore bucked a strong anti-war sentiment that was based on "mothers not wanting to send their sons to this war."

As I recall my residue of history, the resistence to war with Germany had more to do with isolationism and outright pro-Fascist elements.

But she has written books and screenplays, so what do I know.

[Connonym]

1. I wonder if she's back on drugs

or maybe not taking the right ones. I believe she's bipolar and has had drug and alcohol issues in the past. I love her writing and she's got a reputation for being wonderful with dialog writing. I've seen her interviewed where she's been absolutely brilliant and articulate but other times that it's sort of a train wreck. It's really tragic that brilliance and mental health issues so often go hand in hand.

[UTUSN]

2. What you said. Applies to Linda RONSTADT, too. Thanks. n/t

[Sugar Smack]

3. That's true. The latter, I mean. Carrie Fisher is

such a wonderful writer and actress. I've seen her interview Courtney Love, and I saw how swiftly they engaged each other. I think both are brilliant, but maybe both have addictions to which they feel helpless.

:-(

[QueenOfCalifornia]

4. The show she was a judge on was

On The Lot -- a show on Fox which probably will not be back this coming summer. I watched it every week and I guess they cut out the parts where she was acting like an idiot. Gary Marshall was by far the most articulate of the two - each week the third judge was a "guest judge" The show was deeply flawed in several ways - the hostess was dressed in a nighty almost every week - or at least it looked like she purchased her wardrobe from Victoria's Secret and not from the daywear section of the catalog. Also, the need to have at least one very troubled shit stirrer among the contestants allowed one half-assed guy to remain much longer than any of us viewers cared to see his style of film direction. It was a nice, light hearted show that I could watch with my kids. I will not miss it if it does not come back.

I hope Carrie Fisher is okay - she is very talented and smart -

edit: to correct the naughty typo

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Why do you capitalize people's last names?

[mitchum]

6. She's always been considered "really smart" for Hollywood....

a place where intelligence is a VERY relative concept

[sasquatch]

7. So I'm just too stupid "to get" Sarah Silverman

Boy is that a reliefe, I thought they were placing well connected hacks in television programs for no damn good reason but to keep others happy.
:sarcasm:

[DS1]

8. Sarah Silverman sucks

you're not the only one to think so

[Xipe Totec]

9. She could beat Bushbrains in a battle of wits.

Then again, so could Paula.

[TK421]

10. I've heard that she has been annoyed at the fact that everyone ( or most ) associate

her with her Princess Leia role in the Star Wars trilogy, and at one point she wanted to break that stereotype. I have also read ( somewhere ) that she just wanted a break from Hollywood and all of it's typecast celebrity projects...if that is the case, then I don't blame her one bit.

I feel bad that she can't get past this ( sometimes, Harrison Ford feels the same way..and I know this for a fact ) but I respect her work and all that she has done on and off the screen....

[Tian Zhuangzhuang]

11. Actually she isn't really wrong.

"she attempted to interrupt and babbled about how this film was so brave because it was released a year before the U.S. entered the war and it therefore bucked a strong anti-war sentiment that was based on "mothers not wanting to send their sons to this war.""

There was a very strong isolationist vibe in the US in 1940 and for at least 11 months of '41.

We entered the war primarily because of Pearl Harbor and Germany subsequently declaring war on us.

I wouldn't go as far as calling the film brave. Hollywood at that time was very anti-Nazi certainly more so than the rest of the country.

But factually this is hardly the dumbest celebrity comment.