Film icon Debbie Reynolds died on Wednesday, just one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher passed away. She was 84. TMZ broke the news, reporting that Reynolds was rushed to the hospital around 1pm after suffering from a stroke. The actress had posted a Facebook status just yesterday, thanking fans for their condolences after the…
Dear Carrie, The last time I wrote about reaching out to you was five years ago, just after reading your book “Shockaholic.” I did a review of your book for this newspaper, mentioning what we specifically had in common—long-deceased Jewish-Communist relatives and being adult children of song-and-dance mavens, and what we didn’t—cocaine habits, marriages to…
The witty, multitalented performer Debbie Reynolds, who died on December 28 at age 84, surprisingly found herself associated with Judaism both on- and off-screen. From celebrity notoriety as the decidedly non-Jewish spouse of Jewish singer Eddie Fisher, Reynolds survived her marriage’s breakup and went on be cast onscreen as Jewish or crypto-Jewish mothers in later…
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