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Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
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Caiire Fisher with mother Debbie Reynolds: Photo from Carriefisher.comCairre Fisher with mother Debbie Reynolds: Photo from Carriefisher.comWishful Drinking is Carrie Fisher’s one-woman autobiographical show running through this weekend at Hartford Stage. In the show she dishes the dirt on her relationship with songwriter Paul Simon, her bouts with drugs, alcohol and mental illness, and her unusual upbringing, the child of America’s Sweethearts Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.

WNPR's Ray Hardman asked Carrie Fisher about one segment of her play called Hollywood inbreeding 101. Fisher’s teenage daughter and the grandson of Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Todd become interested in each other, but wonder whether they were somehow related. Carrie Fisher takes me through this rather twisted family tree.

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You can here Ray Hardman's entire interview on the Faith Middleton Show.

Carrie Fisher's one woman show Wishful Drinking runs through this weekend at Hartford Stage.