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'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher 'Stable' After In-Flight Heart Attack (abc7news.com)
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.
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.
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.
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.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Clearly I chose the wrong career path since nowhere seems free of this bullshit.
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.
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.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
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.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
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.
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.