The Joy of Positivity: Postcards From the Edge (1990)
Mike Nichols brilliantly adapted Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel about the Hollywood high and low life
With her autobiographical 1987 novel Postcards from the Edge, Carrie Fisher announced herself as a legendary wit; Dorothy Parker, if she had a history as a Space Princess in a gold slave bikini. With Postcards from the Edge, Fisher drew upon the absurdity of her tabloid existence as Hollywood royalty troubled even by the lenient standards of the breed.
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