A Night Out With Carrie Fisher

A Night Out With Carrie Fisher

"She wants the lights dimmed," said the manager of the Barnes & Noble on West 66th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. And the lectern? "She doesn't want that, either."

And so it was done.

At 8 p.m. on a recent evening, Carrie Fisher, dressed head to toe in black, perched on a stool in front of more than 200 fans. Just moments earlier, the audience had emitted a collective groan when told that copies of her new memoir, "Wishful Drinking," an adaptation of her one-woman show, would be pre-signed. Sadly, there would be no one-on-one with the actress who achieved icon status as Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" films.

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