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Thanks To the Princess, Han Wasn't Always Solo (cnn.com) 143

Posted by BeauHD from the love-affair dept.
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."
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  • Now this is stuff that matters! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:03AM (#53304575)

    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)

      by RobotRunAmok ( 595286 ) on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:31AM (#53304737)
      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.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward
        It's not "trashy, salacious gossip" coming directly from one of the people involved, this is a cute inside look at one of pop culture's greatest institutions. Chill out.
        • I'll chill out if you promise never to say "cute inside look" ever again. Deal?

      • Re: (Score:1, Informative)

        by Anonymous Coward

        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.

      • 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

      • 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.

      • "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.

      • 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)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Please post more stories like this.

  • what the fucking hell (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:03AM (#53304579)

    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.

  • Comment removed (Score:5, Interesting)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:11AM (#53304615)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward

      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.

      • Comment removed (Score:5, Insightful)

        by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:30AM (#53304725)
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        • Re:She's trying to sell a book (Score:5, Insightful)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:41AM (#53304793)

          "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.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by hey! ( 33014 )

            If you jump into the muck you don't get to posture like you're above it.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by epine ( 68316 )

            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.

            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

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by Anonymous Coward

          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)

        by Anonymous Coward

        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!

    • 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....

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      She's trying to sell a book...The usual suspects are trying to slut-shame her

      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

      • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

        by account_deleted ( 4530225 )
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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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          • Re: (Score:2)

            by Cederic ( 9623 )

            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.

    • 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.

  • Han's Penis Shot First! (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    break it on down!

  • 40 years (Score:5, Insightful)

    by LordWabbit2 ( 2440804 ) on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:20AM (#53304677)
    "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.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Mjlner ( 609829 )

      "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.

      • Valid point, but why drag this out into the light now? They were young, they bumped uglies, there is nothing to see here, move along.

  • But what we need to know is.... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Bearhouse ( 1034238 ) on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:25AM (#53304703)

    Did Han shoot first?

  • News for nerds, 40 years ago celebrity gossip.

    • 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....

  • 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

    • there are only three Indiana Jones movies to watch in the whole canon

      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

  • She revealed they had an "affair" in an interview with a British TV guy about a decade ago.

  • Ended up fucking. 40 years ago. Film at 11, stuff that matters.

  • Shittily written summary (Score:3)

    by wonkey_monkey ( 2592601 ) on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:18AM (#53305409) Homepage

    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).

  • You're not supposed to sleep with your leading lady until after shooting has wrapped up; I thought everyone knew that.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by PPH ( 736903 )

      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.

    • On the contrary. The studio-system Golden Age and its associated constant gossip-factory was always about people hooking up while working intensely together on a project. It's like a "shipboard romance" (a term that has vanished with air travel) - people together for the week of an Atlantic crossing.

  • She sure got around [rackcdn.com]

  • Because of latest DNS hijacking, Slashdot is redirected to TMZ servers. Keep watching us, details soon!

  • A full moon.

  • 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.

  • I always had a feeling there was some chemistry between these two even when I saw the movies as a child. Nice to be validated!
  • Princess Lay Ya at weekends.

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