BizzleCast 70: Carrie Fisher is an American Treasure; here are some reasons why

I only have limited time in this short podcast, but Carrie Fisher is one of the most interesting, intense, hilarious, brilliant, disturbed, and most importantly real and honest person to ever make it out of Hollywood. And yet she barely made it out of her drug addiction, but she’s spent the last decade or so producing brilliant work on TV, film, theater, and as a writer. Totally fearless, a modern woman stuck growing up with a highly dysfunctional family of Hollywood royalty (the photo at the bottom is her with her equally important mother Debbie Reynolds, with whom she has reconciled against all adds), in the aftermath of the Hillary Clinton debacle it’s so clear that Fisher was ahead of her time, in addition to the too-much-too-young thing that has killed the careers and sometimes lives of young actors. But she’s come out the other side crazier and cooler than even, and if you enjoy the podcast I highly recommend seeking out some of the great interviews with her, from David Letterman in 1983 when the burnout is so apparent, to a group therapy session with her mama on Oprah a few years back. “To me she will always be royalty” indeed.