Carrie Fisher - Heart Attack

[nzcamel]

I think it's one of the things that I like about Carrie...that even though she was A-list, she was her own woman doing her own thing (even if some of that was wrecking herself ) to the point where many people wouldn't know who she was, as evidenced here.
She wrecked me too...I never have meet a girl that could live up to Leia lol

 

[EnglishEdward]

it's hard to be unaware of who Princess Leia is, even if only in a "that's one of the Star Wars characters, right?"

Quite so.

I am bound to say that the only two characters I can really remember are the two absurd robots.

 

[Kyriakos]

I think that due to the original trilogy being so old it is one of the franchises where many people know the characters but not the names of most of the actors. Other than Harrison Ford, anyway (and to a lesser extent the Obi Wan, played by Jeremy Corbyn )

I wouldn't know (and again forgot) the name of the Luke actor either, if he also wasn't the voice of a character in the Sierra games Gabriel Knight, and the Joker.
I didn't know even how the Vader actor looked like, up to watching a video on him some weeks ago

 

[EgonSpengler]

Here's Fisher at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony for George Lucas in 2005. She was a great comedian. I haven't seen anything close to everything she did. Take a spin down her IMDb page - she worked basically nonstop for 40 years - and then remember that she was also a best-selling author. She was in not one, but two of my favorite - and some would say genre-defining - films, Star Wars and When Harry Met Sally...

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Quite so.

I am bound to say that the only two characters I can really remember are the two absurd robots.

Droids.

C3PO and R2D2, played by Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker, respectively (still hard to believe that there were real actors in those costumes).

I think that due to the original trilogy being so old it is one of the franchises where many people know the characters but not the names of most of the actors. Other than Harrison Ford, anyway (and to a lesser extent the Obi Wan, played by Jeremy Corbyn )

I wouldn't know (and again forgot) the name of the Luke actor either, if he also wasn't the voice of a character in the Sierra games Gabriel Knight, and the Joker.
I didn't know even how the Vader actor looked like, up to watching a video on him some weeks ago

Obi-wan Kenobi was played by Alec Guiness. Luke was played by Mark Hamill. As for Darth Vader, which version? Prequels? Which age? Original trilogy? The older Vader we got to see right before he died (and before the movie was mucked with to show the prequel actor there) wasn't the same actor who played him in his active scenes. James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader in the original trilogy.

 

[Kyriakos]

^I know (about Alec Guiness), but i was alluding to a meme:

 

[Synobun]

James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader in the original trilogy.

He's still the voice of Vader in almost all SW media.

 

[pietro1990]

Funny biography:

 

[nzcamel]

^I know (about Alec Guiness), but i was alluding to a meme:

Yeah...cos we were all going to follow that without seeing the meme...

 

[Kyriakos]

^You would if you were a Euro-peon.

Funny biography:

Very nice!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

^You would if you were a Euro-peon.

You know that most of us here are not European.

BTW, the actor who wore the Darth Vader costume and performed the actions in the original trilogy was David Prowse.

 

[Silurian]

" Debbie Reynolds just suffered a medical emergency, which we're told is a possible stroke ... and EMTs just raced to the scene, TMZ has learned.

Debbie was at her son Todd Fisher's home in Beverly Hills and just after 1 PM someone from the house called 911."

http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/28/debbie-reynolds-hospitalized-stroke/

Very sad.


David Prowse was the green cross code man in the UK for many years.

 

[Silurian]

Debbie Reynolds has died

 

[Synobun]

I can't imagine how Todd Fisher and Billie Lourd must be feeling. Hope they're not alone over the coming months.

 

[Zkribbler]

Debbie Reynolds has died

Breathing problems of some kind.
Daughter & mother, one day apart. Very sad.

 

[onejayhawk]

I've seen this before. Two closely associated people die in close succession. It's as if the second person lets go of a rope.

J

 

[Zelig]

Most statistical analyses of death timings show that absent a common cause, it's just a coincidence.

 

[onejayhawk]

Most statistical analyses of death timings show that absent a common cause, it's just a coincidence.

That's a very tall coincidence.

J

 

[Zelig]

That's a very tall coincidence.

J

There've been around 100 billion human deaths. Some of those are bound to look like tall coincidences.

Classic narrative fallacy.

 

[Zkribbler]

Funny biography:

Thanks for sharing this pietro.