By: John Kevitz
Published: Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Last year was the loss of Leonard Nimoy and today the loss of my first childhood crush Carrie Fisher. Another representation of my childhood passes with someone who helped create hours of entertainment and enjoyment for a young six year old boy who dreamed of being as cool as Han Solo.
Carrie played a character that was not only beautiful on the outside, but a character that to me would epitomize a heroine with strength, compassion, and femininity.
Princess Leia is a character type rarely seen in today’s film and TV. These days it seems like secular culture is trying to turn female heroines into oddly weird versions of men. The heroines of today generally have to be as crude, physically imposing, and as cold hearted as a man traditionally has been in film and TV. Something has clearly been lost in true feminine empowerment since the early days of Star Wars and the beautiful girl who dawned the now famous bun hairdo.
Carrie played the perfect female heroine. Women wanted to be her, and all the guys wanted her. I dare say many of today’s heroines of film and TV are not the kind girl who a guy would want to take home to mom.
With today’s secular world constantly bombarding us with trying to confuse gender roles, it’s nice to recall what real strength, power, compassion, and femininity used to look like and be admired by all.
So, thank you Carrie Fisher for your representation of Leia Organa, your talent, and honesty in life. You will be missed.
God Bless and May The Force Be With You.
Very well written. She will be missed greatly. May The Force Be With You.
On February 26, 2005, R. Gregory “Greg” Stevens, a 42 year old lobbyist, was found dead in Fisher’s California home. The final autopsy report listed the cause of death as ” cocaine and oxycodone use” but added chronic, and apparently previously undiagnosed, heart disease as contributing factors. Media coverage of an initial autopsy report used the word “overdose,” but that wording is not in the final report.
another passenger performed CPR on Fisher until paramedics arrived at the scene. Emergency services in Los Angeles were contacted when the flight crew reported a passenger in distress prior to landing. Fisher was taken by ambulance to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where she was placed on a ventilator .