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'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher 'Stable' After In-Flight Heart Attack (abc7news.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the may-the-force-be-with-her dept.

Best-known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy and The Force Awakens, actress Carrie Fisher is recovering from a "cardiac event" Friday. An anonymous reader quotes ABC: Her brother, Todd Fisher, told The Associated Press that she was "out of emergency" and stabilized at a Los Angeles hospital Friday afternoon... The 60-year-old "Star Wars" star experienced medical trouble during a flight from London and was treated by paramedics immediately upon landing in Los Angeles around noon Friday, according to reports citing unnamed sources.
Fisher reportedly remains in the intensive care unit while lots of celebrities are now wishing her a speedy recovery for Christmas, including Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels, Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, and Billy Dee Williams, as well as Star Trek actors William Shatner and George Takei. Many fans are using the hashtag #MayTheForceBeWithHer, and she's even receiving messages of support from the Twitter account set up for her therapy dog, Gary.

120 comments

  1. Best known.... (snip) for Force Awakens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I doubt that.

    1. Re: Best known.... (snip) for Force Awakens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you were trying to make a funny snip there that completely missed the meaning of the unabridged full line on purpose, you put the snip in the wrong place. Sorry.

    2. Re:Best known.... (snip) for Force Awakens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      George Michael has died.

  2. only 2 days late! by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 2, Informative

    only 2 days late!

    1. Re: only 2 days late! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      When IGN beats Slashdot to a story, they'd might as well just not report it at all.

    2. Re:only 2 days late! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      We're on a geek-oriented tech/fandom/culture blog. I don't know what you were expecting, but you're clearly in the wrong place.

    3. Re:only 2 days late! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Clearly I chose the wrong career path since nowhere seems free of this bullshit.

    4. Re:only 2 days late! by elvesrus · · Score: 1

      2 days ago this hadn't even occurred...

    5. Re:only 2 days late! by sjames · · Score: 2

      The one where you were apparently interested enough in TFA to click the link...

    6. Re:only 2 days late! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You speak as though Slashdot is reporting that Ms. Fisher broke up with her beau or entered fucking treatment for substance abuse. The woman suffered a heart attack and is a star of a story popular with many who read this site - like it or not.

      If I adopted your position, I'd bitch every time someone posts an article about anything by Orson Scott Card and say, "He writes shitty science fiction, what does that have to do with geeks?" Except not everyone agrees with my position - so I don't.

    7. Re:only 2 days late! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      this shithole of a place.

      You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

    8. Re:only 2 days late! by sjames · · Score: 3, Insightful

      And yet here you are talking about it. Nobody made you spend your time in this discussion. You could have just looked at the next story but here you are.

    9. Re:only 2 days late! by Hylandr · · Score: 1

      This is a case of "late worse than never" (or more exactly, "ever worse than never"). Seriously, what site we're on? I haven't come here for celebrity gossip.

      I find you lack of Geek cred disturbing...

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    10. Re:only 2 days late! by JoKer_Destroy · · Score: 0

      interesting and surprising videos about Spiderman https://goo.gl/f0aqbj

  3. Summary is always wrong by physicsphairy · · Score: 4, Funny

    !Best-known for playing Princess Leia

    What do you mean she's not best known for this???

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    1. Re:Summary is always wrong by arth1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Among the /. crowd, I'd think she'd be better known for her crazy ex role in Blues Brothers. Much more nerdy.

    2. Re:Summary is always wrong by Nutria · · Score: 0

      I hate you for beating me to the Mystery Woman reference!

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    3. Re:Summary is always wrong by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      Calm down, C++-3PO.

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    4. Re:Summary is always wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      At least she didn't "Curl Up and Dye".

    5. Re:Summary is always wrong by ClickOnThis · · Score: 3, Informative

      Meanwhile, the real C-3PO (actor Anthony Daniels) had this to say:

      At last I know what I want for Christmas. The galaxy's beloved Princess, fully functional once more. And soon.

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    6. Re:Summary is always wrong by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 1

      Thank you: I'd forgotten _completely_ about her being in that role.

    7. Re:Summary is always wrong by zifn4b · · Score: 1

      Among the /. crowd, I'd think she'd be better known for her crazy ex role in Blues Brothers. Much more nerdy.

      Oh nay. Three words. Drop Dead Fred.

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    8. Re:Summary is always wrong by JoKer_Destroy · · Score: 0

      interesting things hidden deep inside a glance https://goo.gl/a7jKCb

  4. I am using the Force by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    to get a frosty

    French Toast for Ms Fisher. Loved her in Star Trek, she won't be soon forgotten.

  5. Just remember one thing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Keep her away from fucking incompetent medical droids.

  6. I get that.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ..she's a beloved actress and everything, but I didn't realize every news outlet had such close coverage of celebrity heart attacks. You'd think we'd see stories like this a lot more often.

    1. Re:I get that.. by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I would normally shrug this off, but for a lot of us who were kids in the 70s and 80s, Star Wars was THE THING. After I saw Star Wars at five years of age in 1977, I pretty much ate, slept, lived and breathed Star Wars. My dad bought me a bunch of the action figures, I had a friend who had an X-wing and another who had the Millennium Falcon. During recess and lunch, and when we were waiting for the bus, we pretty much talked about nothing else. So, as silly as it may be, when one of the cast of the original films dies or gets sick, particularly one of the big three, I sit up and pay attention.

      I do hope she's alright. She's really not that old, but she has freely admitted she lead a pretty unhealthy lifestyle for many years.

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    2. Re:I get that.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      She was on 8 out of 10 Cats only a few weeks back, was very witty on it, has written many funny witty books, including a recent one, and you can see it will be a loss if she goes, not because of her past roles, but because of the lost future potential.

      So hopefully she will get past this and back to

      Trump can drop dead, the world will be a better place for it and the majority of the electorate won't miss him.

    3. Re:I get that.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So you were an idiot even as a kid, eh? I thought it might have been due to some extreme trauma to your head.

    4. Re:I get that.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Fuck. She has 10 strikes against her.

      1) She is old
      2) She is white
      3) She is a racist as evidenced by the fact that she is old and all old people owned and regularly beat black slaves (according to common core curriculum)
      4) She is a homophobe. Because all old white women hate gay people.
      5) She is creepy as evidence by the fact that her skin in wrinkly
      6) She got to her position only on the back of poor disadvantaged latino and african americans
      7) She had a heart attack
      8) The heart attack was directly cause by her and her unhealthy life, and her deciding to be old and white.
      9) Did i mention she is white
      10) She was not a lesbian. Lesbians are a disadvantaged and deserving of our support.

      I am just glad we have a new gender empowered generation who live and breath diversity a can finally lay the evil that is Princess Lei to rest. We need to kill white people, but especially old white people. They have been around too long. Why should people that are going to be dead soon be allowed to vote. Voting should be done on face book and reddit by the hip community of diverse users that are going to be creating a racially diverse and vibrant community of ecologically forward thinkers who have given up on hate.

    5. Re:I get that.. by JoKer_Destroy · · Score: 0

      interesting things hidden deep inside a glance https://goo.gl/0I29hc

  7. Obligatory xkcd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    xkcd kind of predicted via actuarial math that one of the main cast of Star Wars would likely be dead by 2017.

    1. Re: Obligatory xkcd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's because they included James Earl Jones as part of the main cast.

    2. Re: Obligatory xkcd by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

      And Peter Cushing who looked 100 back then.

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    3. Re:Obligatory xkcd by quenda · · Score: 1

      It would have been easier if they'd not forgotten Alec Guinness.

  8. That was her?? by Type44Q · · Score: 1, Funny

    Best-known for playing Princess Leia in... The Force Awakens

    No kidding; I could've sworn that was Voldemort...

    1. Re: That was her?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, Voldemort was Supreme Leader Snoke.

  9. Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What's a therapy dog?

    1. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      It's a way for people to take pets where pets are not normally allowed.

    2. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by ClickOnThis · · Score: 4, Funny

      What's a therapy dog?

      It's a dog that is trained to assist someone with a physical or mental disorder. Carrie Fisher is a self-confessed addict and alcoholic. Her therapy dog helps her to deal with stress and anxiety.

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    3. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      St. Bernard dogs are often seen with a flask strapped to its neck because It's a therapy dog for rummies.

    4. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by ClickOnThis · · Score: 1

      St. Bernard dogs are often seen with a flask strapped to its neck because It's a therapy dog for rummies.

      Nice snark, but consider the following quote:

      Although in legend casks of liquor were strapped around the dogs' collars to warm up travelers, no historical records exist that document this practice.

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    5. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by ArchieBunker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Everyone has a fucking therapy dog now. Back in the old days it was called manning up and dealing with your problems. Now you just trade addictions because behavior modification is too hard. Instead of being addicted to coke shes addicted to her "therapy dog".

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    6. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by ClickOnThis · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Everyone has a fucking therapy dog now. Back in the old days it was called manning up and dealing with your problems. Now you just trade addictions because behavior modification is too hard. Instead of being addicted to coke shes addicted to her "therapy dog".

      I'm guessing you have never had to deal with mental illness. If you or a loved one ever had any exposure to the issue, you'd be singing a different tune.

      Mental illness hurts. It is not easy to fix. You can't just "man up" and "snap out of it." It takes work.

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    7. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by pigsycyberbully · · Score: 0

      What's a therapy dog?

      It is a loyal family member who knows all your secrets and never tells on you and is always loyal it loves you.
      People who have alcohol or drug addiction or suicidal depression it loves them it has a positive effect on their life.
      It can be found sleeping with the homeless as a loyal companion somebody to cuddle. Even as an untrained companion its senses when the mind is going wrong it tries to help by loving them.
      They can be found helping people with mild schizophrenia.
      A trained version can often be found in a hospice visiting patients.
      It can be found with the housebound it kills the deafening silence it loves them.
      People unconsciously train them they can be a bad boy, or a bad girl depending on what the human needs or wants.

      And so on and so on and so on.
      In Tokyo, they have battery operated cuddly ones who say mummy or daddy.

      It is the power of love.

    8. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by mrbester · · Score: 1

      They usually contained milk.

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    9. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by phantomfive · · Score: 1

      Could be a turkey!

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    10. Re: Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by pslytely+psycho · · Score: 5, Informative

      "If a loved one of mine was suffering from a mental illness, I would kill them in their sleep."

      Aaaand now we know the nature of your mental illness. Please seek treatment.

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    11. Re: Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fortunately for you, your mother obviously did not think this way.

    12. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by jellomizer · · Score: 2

      Then after they manned up. They will become alcoholics, violent, or just some other problem to society. But they were tough though on the outside like a real man.
      Or we can just improve our pet infrastructure to allow people to bring sufficiently trained pets who can just diffuse our problems with just a touch or a friendly action. Because such actions we cannot get from people anymore.

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    13. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      Everyone has a fucking therapy dog now. Back in the old days it was called manning up and dealing with your problems.

      No, back in the day it was called manning up and not dealing with your problems. And then you perpetrated your shit behavior on someone else.

      Now you just trade addictions because behavior modification is too hard. Instead of being addicted to coke shes addicted to her "therapy dog".

      People used to go to court-mandated AA and get addicted to Jesus. Christianity is probably about as harmful as alcohol, if you run the numbers.

      I do think that therapy dogs in public are largely bullshit, but not because of the reason you state. I think they're bullshit because the dog eats shit and licks asshole, and the dog licks itself, and the person pets the dog all day, and the person touches everything. That's fucking disgusting and it creates a public health hazard. It is taking the technology of sanitation towards the dark ages. If you could just get people to wash their hands you could eliminate over a third of all disease. Instead, we in the first world are deliberately creating a class of people whose hands are perpetually unwashed.

      Therapy animals are bullshit because instead of letting people spread dogshit everywhere, we should be hiring people to provide therapy. This whole tradition of enslaving an animal to provide you with happiness because people don't want to talk to other people is a load of crap.

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    14. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It is the power of love.

      Which one- Huey Lewis and the News, Frankie Goes to Hollywood or Jennifer Rush/Celine Dion?

    15. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by demonlapin · · Score: 1

      The people who carry around "therapy dogs" are the ones trivializing mental illness. "Oh no, I have anxiety, Snookums has to go everywhere I do!" Horseshit. It's just like the perfectly able-bodied people who wander onto the airplane before anyone else because "I need extra time". No, you don't, because I board right after that and you're already sitting down with your iPad out.

      Anxiety is real if ambiguous. Depression is a bitch. Schizophrenia is a nightmare, and physical disability is a curse. But there are any number of assholes who will exploit a situation to their own advantage. Therapy dogs are such a thing.

    16. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mod parent up. That's all it is. There are also service dogs, for example for blind people, or diabetics who might go into shock or coma. Those comprise about 0.00001% of what are claimed to be therapy or service dogs. Therapy dogs are actual the external manifestation of narcissism and even sociopathy.

    17. Re: Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And you've never dated a girl that registered her dog as a service dog for literally no reason other than "emotional support".

      It was one of three straws to end that farce.

    18. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by ArylAkamov · · Score: 1

      Can confirm. You get a doctors note saying it's a "therapy" dog or cat or xyz and it's much more likely you can bring it with you to your new rental/apartment when you move, I know a number of people who have done this.

    19. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

      Maybe you should read more than one sentence into my post. I fucking said it takes work.

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    20. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by Talderas · · Score: 1

      I'm waiting to hear about when a passenger with a therapy dog sits next to an asthmatic that suffers allergic reactions to dog.

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  10. Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by haruchai · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    possibly at the same time while medics were struggling to keep Carrie Fisher alive, Death tidied up a loose end from 1972 by reaping a former flight attendant from Serbia ,the sole survivor of the explosion & crash of JAT Flight 367 from 33,000 ft, eventually regaining full mobility despite being in a coma for 10 days and s
    uffering a skull fracture, several crushed vertebrae and breaking both legs

    R.I.P Vesna Vulovi, 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016, gone to her final destination
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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    1. Re:Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by haruchai · · Score: 0

      Vulovic' - Slashdot swallowed the Unicode, sigh

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    2. Re:Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by ClickOnThis · · Score: 1

      As much as I grieve for one and hope for the recovery of the other, I don't see how they're connected.

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    3. Re:Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Why don't you create a new article for this instead of forcing your way into Carrie Fisher's?

      You're a fucking bastard and you should delete your account.

    4. Re:Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by haruchai · · Score: 0

      As much as I grieve for one and hope for the recovery of the other, I don't see how they're connected.

      C'mon, it's not that much of a stretch, is it?

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    5. Re:Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by ClickOnThis · · Score: 4, Insightful

      As much as I grieve for one and hope for the recovery of the other, I don't see how they're connected.

      C'mon, it's not that much of a stretch, is it?

      Actually, yes it is.

      One survived a plane crash after falling over 10,000 m.

      The other developed a medical condition while on a routine transatlantic flight.

      As others in your thread have pointed out, the death of Vesna Vulovic is newsworthy, but not connected to Carrie Fisher. It deserves a separate story on this site.

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    6. Re:Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The point he's making is that Carrie Fisher should have jumped out of the plane at 10,000m instead of having a heart attack. She would have lived, instead of dying on life support at the Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center.

    7. Re:Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >As others in your thread have pointed out, the death of Vesna Vulovic is newsworthy, but not connected to Carrie Fisher. It deserves a separate story on this site.

      Disagree. It's not tech or science related in the least. At best, it's weird trivia. No one cares because it's not really all that interesting.

    8. Re: Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wrong

    9. Re: Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just ignore him, he's a known troll.

    10. Re: Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Okay, troll. Keep on trolling

    11. Re: Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Aww, you post as an AC to defend yourself!

    12. Re:Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by haruchai · · Score: 1

      As much as I grieve for one and hope for the recovery of the other, I don't see how they're connected.

      Perhaps you'll like the following connection better

      Not only does Carrie Fisher pass away on Dec 27th, just 3 days after being declared stable following her heart attack on a transatlantic flight but her mother, Debbie Reynolds, who came to fame for her role in Singin' in the Rain, suffers a stroke and dies just one day later

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    13. Re: Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm DC

  11. Heart attack over ocean == SOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When you have a blocked artery in your heart minutes count. If you are on an airplane over the ocean you are SOL. All you can do is wait while your heart muscle dies. Scar tissue will replace the damaged muscle, but it does not beat and never will. There is no such thing as recovering from that.

    1. Re:Heart attack over ocean == SOL by dgatwood · · Score: 1

      The amount of damage also depends on how big the artery is that got blocked, how completely it is blocked, and whether the blockage clears on its own. So that's not necessarily true. Also, there are some interesting stem cell treatments that can apparently dramatically improve outcomes.

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    2. Re:Heart attack over ocean == SOL by Ron+Goodman · · Score: 1

      And how much, if any, collateral circulation is present to provide blood flow to the area normally serviced by the blocked vessel.

  12. I get it but... by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I feel like society really has it's priorities out of order. So many people are concerned for an actress while people in their own nations are homeless and getting neither proper nutrition nor appropriate medical treatment. To top it all off, they are shunned, scorned and accused of simply being lazy.

    However, I understand celebrity (especially sci-fi centric celebrity) has it's appeal but if we want to talk about it, we should talk about the most likely cause: heart disease. It is the most common killer of people (in the US) and while the cause is seemingly mysterious, it's quite well known it's because of the amount of meat we consume. Meals shouldn't have more than 10% of meat but various industries have changed it so that it seems like it should be 80%. The overconsumption of meat is killing millions of people and I'm sure Carrie Fisher will become one of them soon enough.

    Wake up, society! You've got it all wrong!

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    1. Re:I get it but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I feel like society really has it's priorities out of order. So many people are concerned for an actress while people in their own nations are homeless and getting neither proper nutrition nor appropriate medical treatment. To top it all off, they are shunned, scorned and accused of simply being lazy.

      However, I understand celebrity (especially sci-fi centric celebrity) has it's appeal but if we want to talk about it, we should talk about the most likely cause: heart disease. It is the most common killer of people (in the US) and while the cause is seemingly mysterious, it's quite well known it's because of the amount of meat we consume. Meals shouldn't have more than 10% of meat but various industries have changed it so that it seems like it should be 80%. The overconsumption of meat is killing millions of people and I'm sure Carrie Fisher will become one of them soon enough.

      Wake up, society! You've got it all wrong!

      Actually the meat thing is a myth that has been debunked many many ways since the 1970s after the research of Ancel Keys was adopted as public health policy and nutritional guidelines based on it have skyrocketed the rate of obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease along with some cancers since that time. Eating excessive fats in the presence of excessive carbohydrate in the diet interrupts the body's ability to process fat in terms of stored body fat, lipoproteins in the blood (read Cholesterol) and what does not get stored or processed ends up lining the arteries causing an inflammatory process that leads to heart disease.

      In short it is excessive carbs in the diet that leads to skyrocketing insulin levels and inflammation, not excessive meat consumption that leads to this problem.

      Have a Happy holiday and read up on it.

  13. shocked shes still around. by nimbius · · Score: 1

    Im heartened to know she survived, but also somewhat surprised she survived her crippling narcotic addiction throughout the seventies.

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    1. Re:shocked shes still around. by SuperKendall · · Score: 1

      I talked to her a little bit in July (autograph signing) and she seemed in really good shape then. I think the drugs did age her a lot more than she would have been otherwise (just look at pictures of her next to her mother) but physically she seemed just fine. I was really surprised to hear she had a heart attack, but that probably is a lingering effect of the drugs.

      It almost makes you wan to not do coke to begin with!

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    2. Re:shocked shes still around. by jellomizer · · Score: 1

      The 1980s anti-drug PSA tried to send an over simplified version of the problem. Most drugs will not kill you right away or get you addicted on the first hit. But prolonged use does hell to the body's. Chances are her heart attack at 60 is due to that lifestyle of her youth.

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  14. She was lucky in that regard by SuperKendall · · Score: 1

    When you have a blocked artery in your heart minutes count. If you are on an airplane over the ocean you are SOL.

    Luckily for her they were close to landing so it wasn't like she was really in the air hours after the attack... she may yet have a chance.

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    1. Re: She was lucky in that regard by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 1

      A chance, yes, but it's seven thousand three hundred twenty to one.

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    2. Re: She was lucky in that regard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Never tell her the odds.

  15. Too soon? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Help me C3PR, you're my only hope!

    1. Re:Too soon? by haruchai · · Score: 1

      Help me C3PR, you're my only hope!

      Well played

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  16. Through the '00s? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I remember hearing about her relapsing a few times in the late 90s early '00s. The new Star Wars movie was mentioned as a sort of Hail Mary returning her to relevance.

    Personally I kind of wish they'd dropped the original trilogy characters altogether and done all the movies in 'another party of the galaxy' on a storyline unrelated to 'the last jedi'. At the very least they wouldn't have shat all over 20+ years of extended universe (including LucasArt's own EU additions!) and as a helpful side effect they wouldn't have brought to light how tired our once-heroes looked, having been ridden hard and put away wet by our entertainment industry :) Seriously Trek and Wars are more worn out than a 50 year old working girl who hasn't had a day off in her life.

  17. Cool Chick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I learned to love her on that movie making reality show. I don't know the name, but I do know that she's a good looking firecracker. Glad she's okay. I'd like to "do her" BTW.

  18. Re:humfuckingbug by MightyMartian · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yes, I'm sure you were the weazily kid in the corner who thought Escape from Witch Mountain was the cinematic event of the decade.

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  19. Sadly not necessarily that 'stable' by Athanasius · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was looking for an update yesterday and found https://www.theguardian.com/cu...

    From her brother:

    But he later clarified his comments. “It’s not fair to say ‘stable’. I am not saying she is fine, or not fine,” he told Reuters by telephone. “She is in the ICU.” But in a subsequent interview he said many details about her condition or what caused the medical emergency are unknown.

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  21. Re:humfuckingbug by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    Wait ermine it. Whoever told you you could spell mustelid, so I don't think you otter go round insulting people.

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  22. And overusage of ' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    'Star Wars' 'Actress' 'Carrie Fisher' 'Stable' 'After' 'In-Flight' 'Heart Attack'
    So what I should take from the head line is that it was actually Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart that is unstable after getting severe burns in a car crash?

  23. She's brain dead folks . . . by Wrath0fb0b · · Score: 1

    I understand they've got her physical body back into stable condition, but she likely went 10-15 minutes without oxygen to her brain. Irreversible damage starts at 4 minutes.

    1. Re: She's brain dead folks . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not necessarily, considering she got immediate CPR and rescue breathing.

    2. Re: She's brain dead folks . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe not brain dead, but undoubtedly brain damaged. Probably already had some brain damage from drug-using behavior in the past, leaving less capacity for recovery.

    3. Re: She's brain dead folks . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      so for the next step lets get her consent to be cloned, when it's safe and legal, so we can see how her little twin sister does growing up in a healthier environment.

    4. Re:She's brain dead folks . . . by Noishkel · · Score: 1

      If that's the case, then probably. Being stuck on an airplane means it's not likely they had extensive gear on board to deal with this. Don't know if they carry O2 on board for medial purposes standard. And that would have been about all they could do until they get her to a hospital.

  24. Star Wars SUCKED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hype is what sold a lot of empty space.

  25. competition is weak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well, I guess a website has to make money. I'd still rather see more ads, and talks about the big Linux Desktop projects. Not much talk of x.org, KDE, Gnome these days.

    1. Re:competition is weak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      +1 insightful pls.

    2. Re:competition is weak by NotAPK · · Score: 1

      Microsoft has killed it. Sure, label me any which way you like, but there is a huge volume of Microsoft news on here these days, compared to five years ago. Sure, not all of it is positive, and some of you may even believe that it is mostly negative. But you misunderstand advertising and market mind share if you think like that. It is actually better for Microsoft that Microsoft be discussed more frequently, even in a negative way, than for a better OS [Linux] to exist and not be discuss at all.

      We all know this site accepts paid submissions. Sure, the editors will deny this until they look ridiculous, but for any seasoned readers it's extremely obvious that they exist. So, of course Microsoft has been able to buy more submissions that the FOSS team and as a result, what was once regarded as *the* place to discuss FOSS is but a shadow of what it once was.

      Sure, there are lots of confounding factors, which will lead many to criticize me for this post.

  26. Contributions to technology, computers, science. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    None.
    Zsa Zsa Gabor probably was more influential.

  27. Next --> by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 1

    George Michael's death coming soon.

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  28. Rude awakening by Snufu · · Score: 1

    "Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels, Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, and Billy Dee Williams, as well as Star Trek actors William Shatner and George Takei" at her bedside? Are they trying to give her another heart attack?

  29. Re:Contributions to technology, computers, science by haruchai · · Score: 1

    A lot of people, including a great many Slashdotters got interested in space, science & tech because of Star Wars, Star Trek and the like.
    Zsa Zsa was a fanstastic contributor to advancing divorce settlements for women.
    As she remarked, "I'm a great housekeeper. When I leave a husband, I keep his house"

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