MCN Curated Headlines Archive for December, 2016
“She’s with Carrie.”
DEBBIE REYNOLDS WAS 84
“Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they’re bad, they’re the worst thing that can happen.”
Carrie Fisher’s Esquire What-I’ve-Learned Interview
“Mr. Slonim seemed to lead a charmed life, unruffled in a milieu peopled with sometimes-sensitive celebrities and often-rude publicists.”
George Gurley On The Death Of Red Carpet Reporter Jeffrey Slonim
“I don’t like ‘Seinfeld.’ Everyone loves ‘Seinfeld,’ and it’s obviously a great thing, but that sort of snarkiness … like, displaying your worst parts as comedy, I find incredibly privileged. I don’t relate to it. My complaint about myself is, like, ‘Mike, can you fucking just be a little less sweet and vulnerable? Can you just be a mean person for once?’ And the answer is no, I can’t. Films are so fucking hard to make and it is a cultural privilege to get to put this out there, so I’m going to put my poker chips in for an authentic, genuine, sincere connection between people.”
Mike Mills On 20th Century Women
“The frank, funny, confessionally inclined and dirty-minded women who now flourish on television and in print — the list is too long; they know who they are — are in her debt.”
Carrie Fisher As Comic Matriarch, By A. O. Scott
“This has been a spiteful fucker of a year. The terrorist atrocities, the refugee crisis and the fall of Western Democracy would have been enough by themselves, but really – Carrie Fisher? George Michael, on Christmas Day? That was a bit much. De trop. Unnecessary.”
Laurie Penny Looks Back, But Forward, Too
“We’re a bit despotic and inflexible with our dialogue because we’re insane, but Carrie was more insane and would always, always make it funnier and better.
Rob Delaney On Carrie Fisher
“OK, so back to things we have in common. Let me ask you something: Did you fuck Warren?”
Carrie Fisher And Madonna Talk Sex And Drugs In 1991
“I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”
15 Ostensibly Feminist Quotes From Carrie Fisher
“Instant gratification takes too long.”
37 Random Carrie Fisher Quotes And Quips
From A Few Weeks Ago, Carrie Fisher With Terry Gross On “Fresh Air” with 33’37” audio
“Be kind. Don’t hurt other people. It’s all the sort of Christian ethics stuff I thought was bullshit when I was a kid. No, it turns out it’s not bullshit. Tell the truth, be kind, all that corny stuff. You don’t have to always be comfortable. You don’t have to like everything you do. That was shocking to me. I thought I had to like everything I did. When I heard that, it was such a relief.”
Carrie Fisher’s Last Rolling Stone Interview