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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2016
‘What is your New Year’s resolution?’
“To fi nd a new place
to live. I’m living
with my sister right
now.”
By LYNN ELBER
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Car-
rie Fisher, a princess on-screen
and off, played both roles in
her own gutsy way.
As Leia of the “Star Wars”
franchise, she commanded the
troops, enjoyed a fl ing with
Han Solo — and, in real life,
co-star Harrison Ford — and
showed fl edgling 1970s fem-
inists what life as a liberated
woman might be like in a gal-
axy far, far away.
As the offspring of Holly-
wood royals Debbie Reynolds
and Eddie Fisher, she drew on
her painful family history and
personal demons to forge a
distinctively tart, unsettlingly
funny style as a best-selling
writer.
Fisher’s throaty voice and
inviting delivery also told the
tale: She’d lived through much
and wanted to — needed to —
share her journey that included
drug addiction, mental illness
and electroshock treatment.
“People relate to aspects
of my stories and that’s nice
for me because then I’m not
all alone with it,” she told
RICHLAND — Offi cials
say dozens of elk are dead after
the herd fell through the ice at a
reservoir in eastern Oregon.
The Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife said in a Face-
book post that 41 elk died Tues-
day on the Powder River arm of
Brownlee Reservoir.
The Baker City Herald
reported that someone who
lives near the reservoir called
to report the incident. Oregon
Department of Fish and Wild-
life Biologist Brian Ratliff told
the newspaper the elk were try-
ing to cross the reservoir from
the north side when the ice
broke in four places.
Offi cials drove to the area to
see if it was possible to save any
of the elk or salvage meat, but
Ratliff said neither option was
possible.
The reservoir is about 260
miles east of Portland.
AP Photo/Jill Connelly
Debbie
Reynolds
and
Carrie Fisher arrive at the
“Runway for Life” Celebri-
ty Fashion Show Benefit-
ing St. Jude’s Children’s
Research Hospital.
The Associated Press in 2009.
“Also, I do believe you’re only
as sick as your secrets. If that’s
true, I’m just really healthy.”
Fisher, who died Tuesday
at age 60, revealed her strug-
gles before such confessionals
became routine. Her vehicles
included a 1987 semi-autobi-
ographical novel, “Postcards
from the Edge,” and a one-
woman show, “Wishful Drink-
ing,” that went to Broadway
and TV.
She avoided few topics in
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the piece, including the scan-
dal that engulfed her super-
star parents (singer Fisher ran
off with Elizabeth Taylor); her
brief marriage to pop star Paul
Simon; the time the father of
her daughter left her for a man,
and waking up next to the dead
body of a platonic friend who
had overdosed in her bed.
“I’m a product of Holly-
wood inbreeding. When two
celebrities mate, something
like me is the result,” she
joked in the show. And there
was this wisecrack: “I don’t
have a problem with drugs so
much as I have a problem with
sobriety.”
Fisher had been hospital-
ized since Friday, after falling
ill aboard a fl ight and being
treated by paramedics at the
Los Angeles airport. Her fam-
ily gave no details on the emer-
gency, while media reports
said she had suffered a heart
attack.
Her feature fi lm debut was
opposite Warren Beatty in the
1975 hit “Shampoo.” She also
appeared in “Austin Powers,”
‘’The Blues Brothers,” ‘’Char-
lie’s Angels,” ‘’Hannah and
Her Sisters,” ‘’Scream 3” and
“When Harry Met Sally ...”
But she is best remembered
as the tough, feisty and power-
ful Princess Leia in the origi-
nal “Star Wars” fi lms, making
a statement with her character
and no-nonsense braided buns.
She famously despised the
latter, and even had mixed
feelings about her famous
character. She knew it then and
audiences later fi gured it out:
Playing Han Solo would have
suited her better.
“When I fi rst read the script
I thought that’s the part to be,
always wry and sardonic,”
Fisher told a gathering in
England in 2015. “He’s always
that. I feel like a lot of the time
Leia’s either worried or pissed
or, thank God, sort of snarky.”
She reprised the role of Leia
in Episode VII of the series,
“Star Wars: The Force Awak-
ens” in 2015, and her digitally
rendered image appears in the
newest installment, “Rogue
One: A Star Wars Story.”
Fisher kept telling her own
story after “Postcards From the
Edge” became a best-seller and
was adapted into a 1990 movie
starring Shirley MacLaine and
Meryl Streep.
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A U.S. Coast Guard air
crew hoisted two stranded
hunters and a dog from a
Columbia River island Tues-
day morning.
The Coast Guard received
a relay around 8 a.m. about
two stranded hunters and their
dog on Miller Sands, an island
upriver from Astoria.
Petty Officer 3rd Class
Jonathan Klingenberg said
the two hunters got stuck
in waist-deep water in a
canoe, away from their boat
anchored offshore, before
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being beset by the weather.
He said the air crew arrived
by 8:45 a.m., picked the
hunters and their dog up and
took them back to Air Sta-
tion Astoria in Warrenton,
where the two men were met
by medical personnel and
later released.
DEATH
Dec. 25, 2016
HOAGLAND, Kenneth Loren, 85, of Brownsmead, died at home. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton
Mortuary in Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
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GREEN — A memorial honoring how
the community came together after the mass
shooting at Umpqua Community College has
been unveiled south of Roseburg.
The News-Review reported the memorial
is in the community of Green, in front of the
Pacifi c Power operations center.
A 70-foot-tall fl agpole that fl ies a large fl ag
can be seen from Interstate 5. Nine concrete
pillars stand behind the fl agpole, representing
those who lost their lives.
Each of the nine letters in “UCC Strong”
rest on the front face of the pillars.
The fl agpole and pillars sit in front of a
steel-cut silhouette backdrop of four adults
and three children holding hands. They repre-
sent the community.
Pacifi c Power and other local businesses
joined forces to get the memorial built. It
was unveiled during a private gathering on
the one-year anniversary of the October 2015
shooting. It’s now open to the public.
Ontario
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SUN AND MOON
Sunset tonight ........................... 4:37 p.m.
Sunrise Thursday ........................ 7:58 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 7:09 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 4:40 p.m.
Pendleton
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The Dalles
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Portland
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Precipitation
Tuesday ............................................ 0.20"
Month to date ................................... 9.90"
Normal month to date ....................... 8.66"
Year to date .................................... 86.40"
Normal year to date ........................ 66.28"
Other books included
“Delusions of Grandma,”
‘’Surrender the Pink,” ‘’The
Best Awful,” ‘’Shockaholic”
and this year’s autobiogra-
phy, “The Princess Diarist,”
in which she revealed that she
and Ford had an affair on the
“Star Wars” set.
Ever ready to satirize her-
self, she played Carrie Fisher a
few times, as in David Cronen-
berg’s dark Hollywood sendup
“Maps to the Stars” and in an
episode of “Sex and the City.”
Fisher starred with her
mother in a documentary set
to air on HBO in 2017. “Bright
Lights: Starring Debbie Reyn-
olds and Carrie Fisher” pre-
miered at the Cannes Film Fes-
tival earlier this year.
Besides her mother, she is
survived by her brother, Todd
Fisher, and her daughter, Bil-
lie Lourd.
Someone made sure Fisher
would be thought of with
a wistful smile: Her bull-
dog, Gary Fisher, had his
own Twitter account that
offered this message Tues-
day: “Saddest tweets to tweet.
Mommy is gone. I love you @
carrieffi sher.”
Pacifi c Power unveils community
memorial for Umpqua tragedy
Associated Press
Astoria through Tuesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 50°/40°
Normal high/low ........................... 48°/37°
Record high ............................ 58° in 1980
Record low ............................. 23° in 1985
Justin Simonson,
Astoria
Fisher found best material in her own troubles
Associated Press
TONIGHT
“Save more
money.”
Gabriela Helesicova,
Astoria
Karen Stanovich,
Astoria
THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Elk herd
dies after
crashing
through ice
“There are too many of
them. The question is,
will I stick to them?”
DUII arrests
• On Friday, Denise
Michele Rogers, 57, of Sea-
side, was arrested by Ore-
gon State Police on one
charge each of driving while
under the influence of intox-
icants and driving while sus-
pended. A state trooper on
U.S. Highway 26 observed
Rogers, driving a Dodge
SUV, crossing over the fog
line and changing speeds.
She pulled over near mile-
post 7, where the officer
pulled up behind her. After
some negotiations, Rogers
opened her door and submit-
ted to a Breathalyzer, which
recorded a blood alcohol
content of .23.
• On Saturday, Breiann
Alexis Puffinburger, 20, of
Astoria, was arrested by
Astoria Police on one charge
each of second-degree crim-
inal mischief, driving while
under the influence of intox-
icants, reckless driving and
driving while uninsured.
Officers were dispatched to
reports of a vehicle crash-
ing into a telephone pole.
At Sixth Street and Marine
Drive, they found Puffin-
burger in the driver’s seat of
a Ford Bronco.
• On Sunday, Zachary
Daniel Young, 23, of Asto-
ria, was arrested for driving
while under the influence of
intoxicants at Lexington and
Alameda avenues.
• On Monday, Drew
Eliott, 58, of Redmond,
Washington, was arrested
by Astoria Police for driving
while under the influence of
intoxicants. Eliott registered
a blood alcohol content of
.08 during a traffic stop at 70
W. Marine Drive.
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