On Wed Dec-28-2016 00:53, Mike Miller (1:154/30) wrote to Al Kaiser:
MM> Hello Al!
MM> 27 Dec 16 18:59, you wrote to all:
AK> I just wanted to say especially sad for me. I JUST returned from
AK> seeing Star Wars Rogue One and the last face on the screen was
AK> Princess Leia.
AK> I came home to the breaking news on my internet feed and CNN that she
AK> had passed away which could not have been more than an hour earlier
AK> and just may have been close to the time I was seeing Carrie's face on
AK> the screen.
AK> With a tear in my eye... RIP.
MM> I was born in 1978. This means I never knew a time when a
MM> princess could not be an ass-kicking, snarky heroine in a film.
MM> The character that Carrie Fisher brought to life in Star Wars
MM> changed the world. She will be deeply missed, not only for
MM> Princess Leia Organa, but for her wit, her fight to normalize
MM> mental ilnesses, and her larger-than-life personality. The entire
MM> world is a much better place for having known her.
And Postcards From the Edge. It's strange why her mother said she was in ICU
and stable condidion. Any human that goes without a heartbeat for 15 minutes
(what I heard on the news) doesn't have much of a life left.
I'm sorry she's gone, too, but as John Wayne said in the movie Hondo,
"Everybody gets dead".
Regards,
Roger
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