Thanks To the Princess, Han Wasn't Always Solo (cnn.com) 143
rmdingler writes: It seems the chemistry was strong with these two. It is interesting to note how long it took this to emerge, as by today's standards, it doesn't rise to nearly the same level of scuttlebutt. Almost 40 years later, Carrie Fisher told People magazine that she and Harrison Ford had an affair on the set of the 1977 film 'Star Wars.' "It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend," she said. "After stumbling on often angst-ridden journals she kept while filming on location in London, she felt the time had come to open up about the formative experience," reports People magazine. "'It's been 40 years,' explains Fisher, who went on to write The Princess Diarist, excerpted exclusively in this week's issue."
Now this is stuff that matters! (Score:5, Funny)
Where can we read more fan fiction about this? Anyone got a good tumblr link?
BeauHD! Stop!! Move Awa-a-a-ay From the Keyboard! (Score:5, Informative)
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Shellac dang it. Vinyl is too slow and the almost digital-like noise floor ruins the stage. A steel needle is the only way to listen.
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Hey
I don't know about all of you, but I personally enjoy having the actual CD when it comes to music. I have quite the collection, and it is a good time. You don't really experience a band when you are just listening to their manufactured singles, you've gotta buy their entire CD! But that's just me... a humble music loving fellow.
Sam
Sometimes a manufactured single is all a band has to offer.
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Yeah that dude's horse shit is becoming unbelievable. I'd rather have the "Slashdot FBI" guy selecting story submissions. Typically it's an endless litany of anti-Trump stories. I was starting to think the site was bought out by CNN. Now we've degenerated to People Magazine.
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Sadly, she didn't age very well.....I guess crazy will do that to a face and body....
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I wouldn't exactly say it's "trashy, salacious gossip about actresses" when the actress herself is saying it. One might actually even question the slightly sexist assumption in the way you phrased that -- given that Ford apparently hasn't said anything yet to confirm or deny this, isn't this closer to "trashy, salacious gossip about an ACTOR"?!
Regardless -- whatever the exact level of "gossip" this falls under, it's still basically celebrity news and therefore I completely agree this has no business on S
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BeauHD, trashy, salacious gossip about actresses in a SF film is still trashy and salacious gossip. You are single-handedly dragging this once-great site into depths.
Here, here. This site needs get back to serious discussions about SF actresses, like hot grits.
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"SF film"? Since when is Star Wars science fiction? Where's the science?
It's straight up fantasy, just like Lord of the Rings. A magic energy field, an old master, an evil dark lord, jeez all you need is to drop a photon torpedo into the evil fortress instead of a ring and it's the same story.
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BeauHD, trashy, salacious gossip about actresses in a SF film is still trashy and salacious gossip. You are single-handedly dragging this once-great site into depths of moronic self-parody unplumbed since the Jon Katz era. Seriously, this is like A Post Too Far. You are in need of an intervention, for the good of your entire organization.
You are still single huh? My wife picked out Leia and Han Solo cake topper for our wedding cake with signs that read "I Love You" and "I know".
This is why I read slashdot (Score:1)
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40 years from now we'll be learning how Donald and Hillary had a tryst after each of the debates.
what the fucking hell (Score:4, Interesting)
Why is this shit posted on Slashdot? A lot of cocks have been sucked in the history of mankind and I guess none of those events really qualify as something to post on Slashdot.
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I second!
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You must be new here.
Re: what the fucking hell (Score:1)
Unless either the mouth or the cock belong to a robot.
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... and what did Carrie Fisher do after Harrison Ford? Or rather whom?
I bet he's feeling embarrassed right about now.
I think Carrie Fisher dated Paul Simon soon after that...
I believe the aftermath of that marriage inspired his song "She Moved On" and probably a few more on the Graceland album...
Oh yeah and I think she was also engaged to Dan Akroyd, before marrying her gay husband (whom later divorced her so he could marry his boyfriend)...
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Slut shaming? You want to sleep with as many people as possible? That's fine. But if you are married you shouldn't be whoring around with other people and vice versa. Now she was 19, young and dumb so I give her a pass. But now she's trying to sell a book about it? Absolutely degenerate and disgusting.
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Re:She's trying to sell a book (Score:5, Insightful)
"I personally don't see others' sexual preferences and number of partners to be my business. You apparently do."
-- I didn't comment until she started bragging about it and using it to promote her book. So apparently she thinks it is my business and yours.
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If you jump into the muck you don't get to posture like you're above it.
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I've always thought there should be a survivors group for those who never fully recovered from the AOL promotional CD plague of the dotcom era Global Insanity.
Until I see a shiny CD polluting my doorstep against my wishes, I'll take the position she's offering up her story as one insignificant trifle among billions available to consumers everywhere in a free world.
Short
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Oh, and your reading powers are very poor "I personally don't see others' sexual preferences and number of partners to be my business". I said, I really don't care how many people you sleep with (as long as it is consensual). But once you are married and especially once you have kids, you are not supposed to be having sex with others. It cuts both ways. And as I said, I would give her a pass because she was young and the older guy with the star power is obviously the one initiating this and has the most con
She was 19 and smoking hot.... (Score:1)
Ford is now my hero! A young Carrie Fisher!
The rest of us had yank over a PICTURE of her - metal bikini. Ford HAD it fr REAL!
Re:She's trying to sell a book (Score:5, Insightful)
...and he was 33 married with two children. Absolutely degenerate and disgusting.
Then we should be shaming him, not her.
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She knew his wife. We should be shaming both of them!
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Why all the hate on sex between consentual adults?
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The usual suspects are trying to slut-shame her to make them feel better about their unstable marriages.
Rumor has it that she also had a fling with Jaba and Chewbacca. Did you see the way she exchanged hugs with Chewy in The Force Awakens? Definitely old chemistry there....
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If you wrote a book to sell, obviously you're trying to sell it. But your statement is bordering on slut-shaming or implications of opportunistic machinations. How about, oh, just buying or not buying the book because you wanted to in the first place instead of being drawn into the hype or drama one way or the other? I mean, seriously, I'm not interested in 99.9999999% of biographies because most people don't have interesting li
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There are a great number of people who think Hollywood stars have opinions that must be correct and whose lives are good examples to follow. When these stars spout dangerous nonsense or cheat on their spouses, it harms society as a whole because people will follow their examples.
Everybody has a responsibility to behave well, and that responsibility is more significant for those in the public eye.
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When these stars spout dangerous nonsense or cheat on their spouses, it harms society as a whole because people will follow their examples.
No, someone that's going to cheat on their spouse is going to do that anyway. Adultery predates Hollywood by pretty much the whole of human existence.
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You used that word but I do not think it means what you think it means.
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I think the fact that she waited 40 years to publish shows she's also not the kind of person who's eager to try to capitalize on gossip. So she's alright. She's got a book to sell. Fine with me. Also , I liked Star Wars.
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i can see that. But it's 40 years. Then there's worse things.
Han's Penis Shot First! (Score:1)
break it on down!
40 years (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: 40 years (Score:1)
FWIW Carrie Fisher was paid $2M for appearing in The Force Awakens.
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"it's been 40 years" and I need the money, so to get people to buy the book I am dragging out all my dirty laundry.
Yep, she was only paid a measly couple of millions for The Force Awakens and has just wrapped up the filming of Episode VIII, so she must be desparate for the money.
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But what we need to know is.... (Score:5, Funny)
Did Han shoot first?
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You win the thread.
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Apparently Han did come in that thing, after all.
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Damn it! I hoped no one had already posted this! [thumbs up]
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Get in there you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell!
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Did Han shoot first?
Probably, but she may have shot back multiple times.
A new low (Score:2)
News for nerds, 40 years ago celebrity gossip.
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In other news, the National Enquirer is about to break a story about William Hartnell diddling the daleks on set back in the 60's. You heard it here first....
Is it me who doesn't give a shit about the actors? (Score:2)
I loved all these great films. Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones, etc. But I guess I'm the only person who really doesn't give a shit about the actors and actresses who played the characters. Who cares? They were just pretending to be them. The cocky bastard Han Solo was who I liked, not Harrison Ford the actor, who from what I understand is an easily-led airhead. Princess Leia had it going as the arrogant space princess who was nonetheless a brave resistance leader, but Carrie Fisher? Sh
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
There are THREE lights! (Score:2)
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Hohum (Score:2)
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Sure, and Luke threw the grappling hook twice.
Two people working closely together (Score:2)
Ended up fucking. 40 years ago. Film at 11, stuff that matters.
Shittily written summary (Score:3)
It seems the chemistry was strong with these two. It is interesting to note how long it took this to emerge, as by today's standards, it doesn't rise to nearly the same level of scuttlebutt.
Eh? What? What is "this"?
Almost 40 years later, Carrie Fisher told People magazine that she and Harrison Ford had an affair on the set of the 1977 film 'Star Wars'
Right, see, that's the thing you put at the start of the summary so people know what the hell you're talking about.
It also wouldn't kill you to remember that a significant percentage of your readership is not US-based and will have no idea what "scuttlebutt" means (and will probably think it's a stupid word even if they do).
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I'm American and assumed that "scuttlebutt" was some kind of Britishism. Sure sounds like something a Brit would say, what with your Cockney and your Scunthorpe and, well, all this [xkcd.com].
Re:Shittily written summary (Score:4, Funny)
That'd be scuttlebum.
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In case you don't notice it is from the late 1700's...
Yes? And?
Bad form (Score:2)
You're not supposed to sleep with your leading lady until after shooting has wrapped up; I thought everyone knew that.
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Actually, it's the temporary nature of the shooting schedule that facilitates a lot of affairs. Once the job is over, everyone has an excuse to go their separate ways. Hooking up afterwards can stretch out into a long term relationship.
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Two-timing (Score:1)
She sure got around [rackcdn.com]
Breaking News! (Score:1)
That is a moon. (Score:2)
A full moon.
We all know... (Score:2)
Now that affair makes sense. The chemistry was great between them on screen because it was real in bed too. We all know that George Lucas can't write a male-female love relationship to save he life. This affair must have why it just worked.
Cynical Slashdot (Score:2)
Hand Solo during the week (Score:2)