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Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com)
Carrie Fisher, the actress, author and screenwriter who brought a rare combination of nerve, grit and hopefulness to her most indelible role, as Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" film franchise, died on Tuesday morning at the age of 60. From a report: "It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning," reads the statement. Fisher was flying from London to Los Angeles on Friday, Dec. 23, when she went into cardiac arrest. Paramedics removed her from the flight and rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she was treated for a heart attack. She later died in the hospital. The daughter of renowned entertainers Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Fisher was brought up in the sometimes tumultuous world of film, theater and television. Escaping Hollywood in 1973, the star enrolled in the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where she spent over a year studying acting. Just two years later, though, the bright lights of Hollywood drew her back, and Fisher made her film debut in the Warren Beatty-led Shampoo. Her role in Star Wars would follow in 1977 -- and she detailed the experience, including her on-set affair with costar Harrison Ford, in her latest memoir, The Princess Diarist. She was only 19 when the first installment of the beloved sci-fi franchise was filmed. Fisher's fans, family, and colleagues have paid their tribute to the actress The Guardian has published an intense tribute to Fisher in an article titled "The loss of Carrie Fisher is felt by all who love Hollywood, warmth and wit".
From BBC's obituary of Fisher: She was a self-confessed bookworm as a child reading poetry and classical literature. Her high school education was disrupted by the lure of the stage when she appeared in the musical Irene alongside her mother, and she never graduated. She moved to London where she enrolled in the Central School of Speech and Drama before returning to the US and attending the Sarah Lawrence arts college near New York. Having managed to kick drugs and alcohol, she was rushed to hospital in 1985 after accidentally taking an overdose of sleeping pills and prescription drugs. The episode formed the basis for her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Postcards from the Edge, in which she satirised her own dependence on drugs and the sometimes difficult relationship she had with her mother. Three years later Fisher adapted it into a screenplay, and it was made into a film starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid. Fisher -- who had bipolar disorder -- also wrote and frequently talked in public about her years of drug addiction and mental illness. Carrie Fisher's fame as an actress rested on just one role, but it was a role in one of the best known and most successful film franchises in cinema history. She was remarkably frank about the personal difficulties she had fought and overcome. "There's a part of me that gets surprised when people think I am brave to talk about what I've gone through," she once said. "I was brave to last through it." The world is poorer without you, Fisher. Rest in peace.
From BBC's obituary of Fisher: She was a self-confessed bookworm as a child reading poetry and classical literature. Her high school education was disrupted by the lure of the stage when she appeared in the musical Irene alongside her mother, and she never graduated. She moved to London where she enrolled in the Central School of Speech and Drama before returning to the US and attending the Sarah Lawrence arts college near New York. Having managed to kick drugs and alcohol, she was rushed to hospital in 1985 after accidentally taking an overdose of sleeping pills and prescription drugs. The episode formed the basis for her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Postcards from the Edge, in which she satirised her own dependence on drugs and the sometimes difficult relationship she had with her mother. Three years later Fisher adapted it into a screenplay, and it was made into a film starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid. Fisher -- who had bipolar disorder -- also wrote and frequently talked in public about her years of drug addiction and mental illness. Carrie Fisher's fame as an actress rested on just one role, but it was a role in one of the best known and most successful film franchises in cinema history. She was remarkably frank about the personal difficulties she had fought and overcome. "There's a part of me that gets surprised when people think I am brave to talk about what I've gone through," she once said. "I was brave to last through it." The world is poorer without you, Fisher. Rest in peace.
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happned
As Leia, she was a blaster-toting Rebel leader. Off screen, she battled with mental illness and came forward about it - enabling many other people to feel like they were not alone. She was the toughest Princess ever. RIP Carrie.
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
Just as a new generation of Star Wars fans were getting to know her, she suddenly passed away. May the Force be with her.
I had a boyhood crush on her in the days of the original trilogy. We lost a lot of celebrities this year, but the cast of the first three have always been special to me.
May she rest in peace.
As we all collectively say "You'll be missed", she's somewhere looking at us and saying "I know".
That is all.
Fuck you.
Sincerely,
The Entire World
She was a very complex person, and before people start beating her up because she "let herself go" (which, by the way, she readily admitted)... You weren't her, you didn't have her problems and her life. Could she have done things differently? Of course. But, it is what it is. An early death is generally the price paid for drug abuse and not taking care of yourself.
She was witty A.F. and an excellent writer. I was 13 when I saw her for the first time on the silver screen. And *wow*. Over the years, I've appreciated what she has done - which is why people that knew her loved her deeply. Leia was just the start.
at the current rate, we're in for 1 or 2 celebs death until NY.
A lot celebrities died this year. But some folks I know — and what I read by other people on various comment boards — are claiming that 2016 sucked because these people died. Not with a passing sadness but a lingering depression, as if they personally known these people in person. That is weird.
i thought everyone from your generation was dead already, this for the young 50ish crowd.
let's face it, this http://rebellioustimes.com/wp-... was the only reason Carry Fisher became a legend.
And those should be their decisions, not yours.
what has reason to do with popularity?
Thank you. And I'll take this opportunity to clarify further that it's not a "generational thing:" Angelina Jolie: Iconic. Sylvester Stallone: Iconic. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Iconic. Sigourney Weaver: Iconic. Patrick Stewart: Iconic. Carrie Fisher: Talented, a lovely person I am sure, cute as a button at age 19, but not an "iconic actress." Not meant as a dis, just as a point that words mean something...
"She drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra."
The Digital Sorceress
says the AC?
Cocaine damages the heart. Cocaine use finally caught up to Carrie Fisher. In an era where people are calling for legalization of drugs, you might want to consider that people had motives for banning drugs in the first place.
High velocity lead is bad for you too. Legalizing drugs takes organized crime out of the equation, and reduces the incentives to run around murdering people for large amounts of cash, drugs, and turf. People will always do dangerous drugs, why not just legalize them so that people who don't want anything to do with drugs can walk down the street without getting shot?
Banning drugs is just providing price supports for organized crime. If you are pro-drug laws, you are pro-Organized crime, it is as simple as that.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
"Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not."
I think the part the original three actors played in Star Wars is underappreciated. Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and Mark Hamill each played their parts well, and could fix up George Lucas' bad dialogue. It turns out that adult Mark Hamill is naturally a villain. Maybe George Lucas should have made sequels with the original cast instead of the prequels. Have Luke turn to the dark side, and kill Han Solo.
To the credit of the Force Awakens, Finn, and the woman also seem to have good chemistry and personality.
The woman was literally a 1-hit wonder
You only need one thing to be iconic.
never went on to do anything else that was worthy of note.
When the one thing is big enough, none of that matters.
Any number of actresses could have played the part
Like who exactly? Who would have been as perfect in that role as Carrie Fisher was?
Yes she was in the right place at the right time, but it's also true that she was the RIGHT PERSON in the right place at the right time. Any other actress would have mangled the part. Her actual person including her background growing up was perfect for that role in a way I'm not sure anyone else was.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Fuckoff racist.
I just want to raise a one finger salute and shout out a heart felt "FUCK YOU" to the year 2016.
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"marijuana users will lead to early onset dementia, and low IQs."
Any studies showing a connection?... I'll wait...
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(The single period to mark a passing may not be a thing here but it once was, on metafilter)
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
It also made her immortal; I would trade being a movie star for 4 decades for the last 2 decades of my old age.
Sweetheart, the motive for banning the drugs was to turn drug users into criminals, not to help anyone.
A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
Yes coke (the powder) is bad for you. But she also would not have been the person she was without it. I don't know that she would have changed anything, even knowing she would die early...
Do you really want to continue to try and eliminate drugs, and have a world with no more Carrie Fishers?
Find your own monastery, I say.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I am not so much for the legalization of drugs, but the decriminalization of them. Portugal is a great example of something we could be doing differently.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Now Star Wars fans get to experience what Star Trek fans have been feeling for decades... Your favorite performers in your favorite roles are mortal. Sure, your character might get a Genesis resurrection, or turn into a Force Ghost, but eventually, the actors die. Then the copyright holders get to screw with your favorite memories by remaking your favorite films with completely different actors. It's worse than Life Day.
Lemmy died a year ago tomorrow so if we treat him as the first then tonight's New Years Eve.
I wonder if a generation of marijuana users will lead to early onset dementia, and low IQs.
We just had an election for President of the United States that pitted Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump, so here's your answer: it's more than just one generation that got addled.
I saw one article today saying 47 famous celebrities died this year, and they included people I had never heard of like Greg Lake, AA Gill, Rick Parfitt, etc. That doesn't seem like that many people to me. If you assume the average celebrity lives 50 years after initial stardom, it would only take 2500 total celebrities for 50 of them to die each year. I would bet there are at least a few thousand people in the world we would consider celebrities.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
Is there a list of people who died this year who actually deserved to die and whose deaths actually left us better off? You know, fascist or communist dictators, serial killers, people who talk loudly on their cellphones in restaurants? That kind of thing?
Right now the only one I can think of is Castro.
(Well, if you'd ever sat in the same restaurant as him you'd know why.)
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Angelina Jolie is iconic? What movie has she even been in that was iconic?
I liked her best in The Blues Brothers.
It's just symbolic, like Col. Potter's toast in the MASH episode, A War for All Seasons.
"Here's to the New Year; may she be a damned sight better than the old one."
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Vera Rubin also died. I'll bet you guys don't even know who she was. Sad.
So did the author of "Watership Down" today. And a foul mouthed comic died too.
Actually, Ricky Harris died yesterday.
And Richard Adams lived to the ripe, old age of 96.
Carrie Fisher died at 60. That's too young these days... But Ricky Harris was only 54.
"Another 40,000 comin' every day..."
What movie has she even been in that was iconic?
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider is iconic?
"marijuana users will lead to early onset dementia, and low IQs."
Any studies showing a connection?... I'll wait...
Here you go.
Oh, you wanted a real source?
Help us Baby New Year. You're our only hope.
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
Gia.
Good-bye
Gia the TV movie? Geez, you guys have low standards.
Being a star in the biggest movie franchise of the 20th century doesnt make you iconic? A generation or two worth of children grew up running around outside pretending to be characters from the movies and playing with the action figures. Shoot, the combined cultural impact of all of Angelina Jolie's movies doesnt even come close to the first star wars movie.
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Gia the movie with 18 year old Angelina stark raving naked...
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
OK, I didn't see it. So I take back my comment.
I have to wonder what will happen next. How exactly does the USA mourn when it loses the only actual princess it has ever had?
I think he's getting her mixed up with Alanis Morissette.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Weren't you the guy who was so awesome at it they fired you?
I was a video game tester from 1997 to 2004. Yes, my boss tried to fire me because I was so awesome. When he got promoted into management and made a big deal out of the fact that I got a 2% raise, I informed him that it was nothing as I had gotten a 50% raise in my first year. It pissed him off that I made more money than him for five years. Somehow he got this misinformed idea that being the manager meant he was the best tester in the department. He wasn't. He was very good at lying about his numbers — and rode the company into bankruptcy. I was the third of a dozen senior testers who headed for the exits.
And then you couldnt get another job for a long time [...]
I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for chapter seven bankruptcy in 2011. For the next two years I worked seven days a week on multiple contract assignments.
[...] and then you got hired to go government IT because they hire anyone?
The government IT position that I got hired for in 2014 required 10+ years of IT experience and a security clearance. My contracting agency gave me an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus because I'm so awesome. ;)
I'm pretty sure this had a bit to do with it too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
Do yourself a favor, fast forward to the stark raving naked part. The rest is just awful.
The main character was, IRL, apparently just a queen bitch, who's _only_ redeeming quality was that she was pretty. They tried, but the unlikeable junkie cunt part came through in the movie. When she dies of AIDs I suspect 99% of the audience was thinking: "Good, I hope she suffered, a lot.' Which, I suspect was not the director's intent.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Based on the voting records, a good portion of the population at highest risk of dementia, alzheimers, and addling of all sorts voted for Trump. A good portion of the rest vomited a little as they cast their vote.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Most people can instantly recognize a picture of Princess Leia. Far fewer could recognize a photo of Lara Croft, and even fewer would recognize Mrs Smith.
The main reason that Carrie had little success beyond Star Wars is because she was too busy snorting cocaine up her nose, and she has openly acknowledged the negative effect of drugs on both her health and career.
In 1977 I fell in love with Princess Leia, and there is still a warm place in my heart whenever I think of her. Carrie, wherever you are out there among the stars, may the force be with you.
Lemmy was the first, the last, the everything.
Eat the rich.
On Christmas day (Isaac Newton's birthday), one of the people who studied galaxies far, far away and the dark side of matter passed away. Vera Rubin
She also probably got a few millions out of it.
So you're bearing false witness?
None of us actually believe that 2016 is some sort of malignant entity. We just identify patterns and make a narrative to help deal with the negative things that happen.
Unlike others who really do believe in talking burning bushes, crackers turning into human flesh and horses flying to heaven. And are willing to kill others to "prove" it. Or use it as an excuse to abuse children, mistreat women.
Happy Holidays!
Debbie Reynolds iconic? Without question.
And Liz Smith.
You wouldn't know her, she doesn't do things with explosions.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Carrie Fischer? Is she related to that chess player dude?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
what does a game tester do that my nephew doesn't? He's playing the games hours at a time too.
Write bug reports to convince the development team that the problem is in the code and not with the tester. For example, in an racing game that's under development, the quickest way to flag a crash bug is to drive the car in reverse from starting line. A counter in the code becomes negative and causes the console to crash. The programmer always whine that's not how players play the game. But tricks like that is how the testers test — not play — the game.
Calling out a racist doesnt make it bigotry. Bigotry is unreasonable and irrational prejudice. Disliking racists is rational, just like disliking rapists and murderers.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Fiction, especially science fiction, is a form of literature. Literature explores and expands the human condition. Carrie Fisher's acting & the science fiction she helped bring to life inspired the dreams of millions, maybe billions. She embraced that role her entire life.
Some of those dreams translated to a reusable rocket actually landing on a floating barge at sea. Maybe someday even your myopic ass will have a chance to holiday in orbit, the moon, or on Mars. But you'll probably just bitch about the toilette and packaged food.
Science without dreams is pretty damn boring. Carrie Fisher may have done more for the dreams that fuel science than you, Mr. Anonymous Coward, could ever hope for.
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." - H. G. Wells
Seriously, I was expecting to find that sort of comment in the discussion, though I wouldn't know how to mod it (if'n I ever got a mod point to bestow). The stress of Trump is certainly making me feel bad these days, and stress can elevate blood pressure and even cause heart attacks...
Seems like a number of prominent people have had unexpected and fatal heart attacks recently, but I think the sample size is still too small. The BIG stress should be on people in OTHER countries. "The big monster is loose, and it's ANGRY and ORANGE." Of course the punchline is that even if the death rate does increase, Trump will just blame it on the repeal of ObamaCare and the Democratic Party interference that is preventing "something terrific" from replacing it.
Lemonade time? There's a great business opportunity for a new news network featuring less Trump. Light Trump News (LTN) will promise the absolute minimum of Trump-related stories. Lots of stories about cats doing interesting things.
Still sorry to hear about her death, even though I was more of a Trekkie.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
It's nerd culture. It's more relevant to Slashdot than many things posted here.
Perhaps the most insightful of the posts (currently) moderated insightful, and I actually count it in Slashdot's favor that there weren't any (visible) funny mods.
Or maybe seeing a humorous aspect somewhere in this story would have been a good thing? Creativity is a good thing and linked to humor, and I even had the impression that she played her iconic role with an edge of humor and wit. Maybe it was just in the script?
What bothers me is the edge of criticism of her lifestyle almost to the point of blaming her for her own death. Angry moralizing, but the offensive part is that I bet the critics would have done the same things or worse if they had the opportunities. It was her great success in the role of Princess Leia that created the temptations she faced and struggled with for the rest of her life.
If she had bungled the role and the movie had flopped, maybe she'd still be alive? Is that the conclusion we should reach? I hope her life had more meaning than that, and if so, much of it was related to the ideals of the character she brought to life so many years ago.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
...is for people who know nobody will give a shit when they go.
In an era where people are calling for legalization of drugs...
Are there many people calling for the legalisation of cocaine?
...you might want to consider that people had motives for banning drugs in the first place.
Indeed. It turns out that reduction of harm rarely makes the top three, otherwise tobacco and alcohol would be banned and I imagine we'd all be buying marijuana and ecstasy from what used to be liquor stores.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
Ha, we always did that on the Commodore 64. Turn the car around immediately after the start and drive in the wrong direction. You couldn't do that in all games but the computer never crashed because of it.
-- Cheers!
And Richard Adams (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38446309). :/
My guess, since she was "flat line" for 10-15 minutes at least, is she was pretty much gone before arriving to the hospital. Keeping her on a ventilator, "technically" kept her alive until she could make it past Christmas. Who the hell would want to remember your wife, daughter, mother "dying" on Christmas. Another thing that may or may not show up if there is an autopsy, made public, is considering her youthful lifestyle, "sex, drugs and rock & roll", her system was probably weakened. Then on top of that, she was told to lose a bunch of weight for the star wars movie, which she did. Who knows how she lost it. Training or drugs? Couple that, with the extended book tour she's been on, requiring a lot of traveling inside a pressurized aluminum tube (airplane), can cause a weakened heart to go out, not to mention any DVT clots that may have broken loose. Just a little warning for the youth, from someone who is close to her age, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF in your youth...you can't wreck your body that much in your 20's and 30's and expect it to behave in your late 50's and higher.
We Lost somene that really care about the humanity... TOGEL SGP
My advice, look up "iconic" in a dictionary. It might not actually have a restriction on output quantity at all.
You might actually find that a famous actor who is only known for one thing is often more iconic than another actor who is known for many things.
You couldn't do that in all games but the computer never crashed because of it.
That's because you were playing a finished game. If the programmers did their job, the game shouldn't crash at all. Some developers find it easy to ship a buggy game and work on a patch in the meantime.
Blame rereleases. In the original cut, Han dies first.
Alright, you're using that word too much. Afraid it will fall back out of style. Most of my life, icon referred to people certain churches revered, and then computer images and just this decade, to people and characters in media.
Until sometime in this decade, I never heard "iconic" refer to media/media personalities at all
James Bond franchise total gross: $7,077,929,291
http://www.the-numbers.com/mov...
Star Wars franchise total gross: $7,127,290,925
http://www.the-numbers.com/mov...
This despite the Bond franchise putting out 25 films to the 9 accounted for Star Wars, not to mention the SW merchandising rights, which are work far far more than Bond.
Most people can instantly recognize a picture of Princess Leia. Far fewer could recognize a photo of Lara Croft, and even fewer would recognize Mrs Smith.
Is that because of the popularity of the films or because of the unusual costume? A bit of both I suspect.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
Sissy Spacek, Cindy Williams, Glenn Close, Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Cybill Shepherd, Anjelica Huston, Kim Basinger, Kathleen Turner.
BWA HA HA HAH AHAHAH!
Most of them are 7-10 years older for one thing. Of the ones that aren't, they are totally different types and simply were nowhere near as fiery as Carrie was.
Everyone of these names are better actresses
I don't think you quite understand. Carrie Fisher was not really a great actress. She was a perfect Princess Leia.
All of those names listed COULD have done the role, but the movie would have been worse for it, in many cases disastrously so.
Maybe that counterexample from the original response to my post was Natalie Portman, a great actress also but nearly unwatchable in the Star Wars prequels... though like I said that's a pretty different situation and not really compatible. Star Wars was good source material, the prequel scripts unsalvageable by any actor.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The rapture's happening right in front of your eyes yet you don't see it.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Oh please, don't try to blame the weed for that. Generations of the distant and not so distant past have done much worse. If there's a "drug" to blame, it would be alcohol, caffeine, meth, antidepressants, prescription opiates, and sugary drinks, and maybe Mcdonalds. But mostly we can blame the TV and the fact that people will believe anything. Most of the weed smokers probably abstained entirely, probably because the facade is so transparent.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
I wasn't taking pleasure in anything, just looking for karmic balancing. And Castro may or may not have been "beloved" but we'll never really know given his history of imprisoning and torturing those who spoke out against him. Dictators, in any case, tend to - bizarrely as it sounds - be "popular", it's how they stay in power without overly risking coups. That doesn't change the fact they're evil, rotten, people who punish those who speak in opposition to their policies.
As an ex-Brit I've noticed a tendency to assume that any dictator who stands up against the US is somehow deserving of a little whitewashing and relative support by those outside of the US. I don't take that position. A dictator is a dictator. Political imprisonment is political imprison. Torture is torture.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Angelina Jolie is iconic? What movie has she even been in that was iconic?
Mr and Mrs Smith was an absolute blast.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Is that because of the popularity of the films or because of the unusual costume? A bit of both I suspect.
Now when I look at those films again they look like absolute crap. Wooden acting, cheesy costumes, lame story, rotten screenwriting, stupid physics, cheap effects, and to be frank, Leia isn't that hot. Seemed fine at the time. I'm kind of embarrassed about that.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
She's been in more hit movies than most actresses, is talented, and instantly recognizable. Carrie Fisher is usually only recognizable when she's rattling off Star Wars quotes in parodies.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Exactly, it has always amazed me that programmer education has included so little content about why programs fail. Weak management of boundary conditions is a testers gold mine in my experience.
Lots of things have an bad effect on people. If you're interested in public health, ban fried foods. As it is, keeping drugs illegal does little but make drug cartels rich and in a position to destabilize entire nations, not to mention leading to huge amounts of taxpayer money going into law enforcement in a hopeless and doomed attempt to keep these drugs off the streets. Legalize it, tax it, use some of those taxes for treatment, and stop trying to pretend the law is the appropriate instrument to deal with narcotics.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Actually it was because the programmers very cleverly made it so that the biggest deviation the car could make from straight on was about 45 degrees, and you couldn't get far off the road because there were either trees and fences in the way or the program just wouldn't let you.
-- Cheers!
As it happens, I arrived to Star Wars a bit late, about half a reel late. As I walked up the ramp in Plaza 1 theater in Plaza Las Americas, PR, the screen came into view, just as R2 and 3P0 were climbing up a dune in Tatooine. Now that I think on it, it was curious timing.
Having missed half the first reel, I stayed for the next show, and saw the whole thing. The movie changed something in me. Changed my mind. I won't say it saved or changed my life, but it awoke something in me, something that I guess eventually led to my attraction to technology of all sorts.
I didn't know shit from shinola back then, and I still don't now, but the character of Leia stuck with me to this day. The Plaza twins 1 & 2 are gone, Leia is gone, but the sweet memories of that moviehouse and that film, I'll take to the grave. "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" -- that phrase, that voice, that hologram still resound in my mind, in a place close to my heart.
How odd, since I unplugged from pop culture sometime like 25 years ago, I didn't know of her struggle with bipolar disorder. I must read her books on this... because it is a cross I bear, and have bore, since before I saw the film. Yes, I found treatment, no, i'm not "cured," yes, it's a cast-iron bitch to live with. So maybe her passing will introduce yet more people to how she dealt with it, and that is a good thing.
When I heard the news, my mind immediately played that bit of the soundtrack, her leitmotif, with that reedy little oboe. Yes, it struck tears.
RIP Carrie Fisher, long live Princess Leia Organa Solo.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
so nothing about her other career as a script doctor... one of the best in the business... http://www.independent.co.uk/a...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Note that he said 20th century and you've included figures from the 20th and 21st. It looks as if, if you just include the films from the 20th century, Bond comes in at around $4bn, Star Wars at about $3bn. That said, none of the numbers are inflation-adjusted, so simply counting the total number of dollars favours the later films: I very much doubt that Tomorrow Never Dies actually made anywhere near as much as Goldfinger, if you adjust for inflation.
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Actually there were indeed a couple of studies linking marijuana use to lower IQs, but others have contested them. A simple google search gives quite a few hits.
I think he's getting her mixed up with Alanis Morissette.
No, no, she's ironic. I think you're getting Alanis mixed up with Lindsay Wagner.
No, no, she's Bionic. I think you're getting Lindsay mixed up with Lynda Carter.
No, no, she's Psionic. I think you're getting Lynda Carter mixed up with Sissy Spacek, in "Carrie".
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
It's all over the world, a fact of history. That when you die, you'll become something worse than dead, you'll become, a legend.
I bet no one looked at Neil Armstrong and said Hey pal, you only landed on the moon once, you're a one hit wonder. I'm fairly certain that many of them regret being so famous, perhaps a little unexpectedly, and that living a legend is a curse that costs them their freedom. I don't think you would be able to handle the pressure of being so recognizable out of one role.
Then again, perhaps you are jealous you aren't a space princess, I will never know.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
RIP Carrie Fisher aka Princess and General Leia. You will be remembered. Thank you for everything.
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
Actually it was because the programmers very cleverly made it so that the biggest deviation the car could make from straight on was about 45 degrees, and you couldn't get far off the road because there were either trees and fences in the way or the program just wouldn't let you.
That's very old school. I worked on a racing game that supported 32 players doing four-way split screen mode on eight Xboxes networked together. One-third drove straight, one-third drove in reverse, and one-third did doughnuts at the starting line. It was crazy. But the game didn't crash and network play worked.
Exactly, it has always amazed me that programmer education has included so little content about why programs fail. Weak management of boundary conditions is a testers gold mine in my experience.
That may be true for Computer Science programs. When I went back to community college to learn computer programming, we were taught to look at the edge cases that might cause a program to fail. Being a software tester made it easier for me to bulletproof my own programs.
Why would anyone who cannot immediately identify a host of differences between USING software and TESTING software be on Slashdot at all?
I've found when it comes to video games that most people can't distinguish between PLAYING and TESTING. They think it's all fun and games. I had that problem with new hires fresh out of high school. First, I informed them that I played the Atari 2600 console in the 1980's (most youngsters don't think video games existed before the 1990's). Second, I introduced them to another tester who assembled arcade machines in the 1970's and 1980's. Third, I introduced them to another tester who tested pen and paper games in the 1970's. After their heads explode, they are ready to learn that testing video games is not the same as playing video games.
And I was talking about games on the Commodore 64 :).
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Seriously, the number of inappropriate posts on here is shameful.
"It's not the band I hate, it's the fans"
We have lost a huge chunk this year; Muhammad Ali, David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Rick Parfitt (Status Quo), Andrew Sachs (Manuel in Fatty Owls), Leonard Cohen, Robert Vaughn, Pete Burns (Dead or Alive), Gene Wilder, Kenny Baker, Anton Yelchin and Alan Rickman (Die Hard, Harry Potter).
It all started early with Lemmy a year ago on 28th of December 2015. Maybe he felt lonely wherever he went.
Meanwhile Keith Richards is still alive and well.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Of course the dollar amounts are pointless as I feel it should have been pretty clear I was speaking in the context of cultural impact.
"A generation or two worth of children grew up..."
"Shoot, the combined cultural impact of..."
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Debbie Reynolds iconic? Without question.
And now she's dead too. Broken Heart Syndrome?
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
The jury has deliberated and we have decided that on balance of the evidence and the stipulations made here on slashdot, that Tomb Raider was indeed iconic.
Have to disagree, at least not in the context of Star Wars in which we're speaking about. Perhaps people don't know her name as much as Angelina but I guarantee they know her character better. If you asked 100 random people "What movie has the character Princess Leia?" and "What movie has the character Lara Croft?" more will remember Star Wars than Tomb Raider. And isn't that what "iconic" means, being widely recognized and well-established?
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what does a game tester do that my nephew doesn't? He's playing the games hours at a time too.
Game testers try to break the games by not playing them properly. If the game say "turn left" a game tester would turn every direction but left.
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Is there a list of people who died this year who actually deserved to die and whose deaths actually left us better off? You know, fascist or communist dictators, serial killers, people who talk loudly on their cellphones in restaurants? That kind of thing?
Trump? Oh wait, that will probably be next year....
Yeah, but that had more to do with the milking to death of the franchise and re-releasing the same shit every few years with slightly different scenes. If Bond movies came out remastered every 3 years you can bet they would have destroyed star wars in terms of profit.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
'cuck' is racist; it's alt-right code for white women that, in their mind belong to white men, being taken by non-white men for a mixed race relationship.
It is sexist against women, and is about race separatism.