Princess Leia’s passing in Los Angeles at age 60, has ramifications for all of us mortals, doesn’t it?
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The loss of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds’s daughter is a loss for all of us. Growing up in the City of Angels…..”Heavenly” Hills, Hollywood Hills, Brentwood, Sunland, Sunland-Verrdugo , Burbank, Santa Monica, Westwood, Pacific Palisades, Hollywood, Canoga Park, Reseda, Venice, Van Nuys, North Hollywood wherever her grasp on her unconscious took her.
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George Lucas, her producer on the “Star Wars” money grossing epic (he acknowledged using our own
student names in our pursuit of happiness, subbing in the City of Los Angeles secondary schools . and Junior Colleges.
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Our planet weeps whether or not a soccer player from London’s Hyde Park, a baseball sub sitting on the bench at Whittier College like “Tricky Dick Nixon “ sixty six years ago, Charlie Chaplin finding his persona in that Venice-Ocean Park roller rink seventy seven years ago.
The Warner Brothers ....Harry Jack Sam out of the Ohio butcher store, capturing Al Jolson singing “The “Jazz Singer”, breaking the Rudolf Valentino silent era absence of “technology”.
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Carrie Fisher’s big soul of humanity in her dialogue, her role as the teenager, her pretending ss an actress an author, an addict searching for Shangri-la, in what was once calibrated as “Lost horizon”
Until Carrie Fisher t age 19, found herself as Princess Leia in “Star Wars”.
December 28, 2016 The City that never sleeps….”Shangri=la”
