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Carrie Fisher: A Life In Ten Pictures review - It's full of holes, but this portrait of a tortured star is fascinating, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Carrie Fisher never stood a chance, and one photo proves it. She's 14, duetting in a ludicrous ball gown with her mother, movie star Debbie Reynolds...
Each brought a picture that purported to crystallise an era in Carrie's tumultuous career, from Hollywood brat to Princess Leia (just 19 when she first filmed that role), author to Broadway star in a confessional production called Wishful Drinking. Paul Slansky, who coaxed her into writing her novel Postcards From The Edge (a lightly fictionalised memoir of drug abuse and disintegration), produced a cassette of her ad-libbing dialogue for the book. How much of her mental illness was triggered by teenage binges and excesses was not clear — her friend Jane Booke, remembering a hedonistic 17th-birthday party at El Morocco club in New York, merely said they had 'a really good time'.
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