![]() Her illness has been treated in a variety of ways by doctors, from shock therapy to pills. But the real hardship of her life has been the condition, once called manic depression, that now is referred to as bipolar disorder. She has had her own romantic disasters, a marriage to singer Paul Simon that lasted only 11 months and a relationship with talent agent Bryan Lourd, who left her for another man. The child of an unhappy marriage between Reynolds and crooner Eddie Fisher, who deserted Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor in a scandal that rocked the world a half century ago, Fisher, now 52, has not had an easy life. That’s the Fisher who was on the phone recently from California, where she lives next door to her mother, Debbie Reynolds, in a house once owned by Bette Davis – a house that boasts a piano in a bathroom, "Because the acoustics are so good.'' ![]() ![]() It might have been more interesting because her character in "Shampoo'' was much like her real self, straight-talking, honest, self-deprecating and funny. ![]() ![]() People who think about such things trace Carrie Fisher’s career from her breakthrough performance as Princess Leia, the no-nonsense lady with the ear-muff hairdo in "Star Wars'' who helped Harrison Ford vanquish the villains of the galaxy.īut two years before that film was released in 1977, Fisher delivered a much more interesting turn as a teenage lover of Warren Beatty in "Shampoo.'' ![]()
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