Princess Leia strikes back

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Princess Leia Strikes Back: My crazy life between cocaine, electroshock therapy and a gay husband (English title Wishful Drinking , literally desire drinking or wistful drinking ) is an autobiographical novel of the American actress and writer Carrie Fisher (1956-2016) from the year 2008. The German title of the novel refers to Carrie Fisher's role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy (1977-1983). The novel itself is based on Fisher's one-person play or her comedy show "Wishful Drinking", which she developed together with the writer Joshua Ravetch.

Billboard of the piece, 2008

The play premiered on September 22, 2009 at Studio 54 on Broadway . The German version of the novel was published by Elisabeth Liebel in Munich in 2011 by mvg Verlag . Since January 2016, the German title of the novel is Vom Erwachen der Nacht .

content

The novel portrays the childhood and life of Carrie Fisher. In addition, Fisher describes her experiences with drugs, electroshock therapy, and her relationship with her family, particularly her mother, Debbie Reynolds .

criticism

Wishful Drinking received mostly positive reviews. In January 2009, the New York Times described the novel as "a fun, sardonic little memoir". Oliver Roscher wrote on News.de : “Princess Leia strikes back is a funny and cynical reckoning with one's own life without losing hope that everything will turn out for the better. The reader gets the impression of a story as the cheesiest of all Hollywood scripts could not have drafted better. With Darth Vader as father and Luke Skywalker as brother, your life probably wouldn't have been half as entertaining. "

documentary

On December 11, 2010, the cable broadcaster HBO released a documentary of the stage show, directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato. The film was released on DVD on September 13, 2011.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wishful Drinking, Broadway Internet Broadway Database , accessed June 18, 2017.
  2. ^ Charles McGrath: Princess Leia's Wit Tames the Dark Side . In: New York Times , January 1, 2009. 
  3. ↑ The Revenge of Princess Leia  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , News.de, February 25, 2012, accessed June 19, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.news.de  
  4. ↑ Robert Lloyd: Television review: Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking. In: Los Angeles Times , December 11, 2010. 
  5. ↑ Jason Bailey: Wishful Drinking review . DVDTalk.com. August 9, 2011.
  6. ↑ Wishful Drinking DVD release . HBO.com. September 13, 2011. Archived from the original on March 29, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 18, 2017.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / store.hbo.com