Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success. It’s an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty-Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher-homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed. Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of “Hollywood in-breeding,” come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen. Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds has already received audience and critical acclaim at many prestigious film festivals, including the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Featuring vintage family films that bring iconic old-world Hollywood to life, as well as extensive vérité footage, the film is directed by Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens. Carrie's response is both hilarious and heart-rending. The 84-year-old grand dame Debbie Reynolds still had a Las Vegas act, before her untimely death, but performing is taking its toll. Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, live in the same Beverly Hills compound. The story of a family's complicated love, this documentary is an intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty in all its eccentricity.
In light of the recent and unexpected deaths of both Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, the documentary Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds will debut Saturday, January 7 at 8:00 p.m.
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