Dan
Posted on 04/27/2005 6:03:30 AM PDT by pissant
ON the morning of Saturday, Feb. 26, a day before the Academy Awards, the actress Carrie Fisher woke up in her Beverly Hills home next to the lifeless body of a gay Republican political operative named R. Gregory Stevens.
Thus ended one of the more improbable friendships that Hollywood and Washington have known - and a globe-trotting, adventurous, but ultimately debilitating existence that might be fodder for a Tinseltown thriller, if it only had a satisfying resolution.
Before its abrupt end, Mr. Stevens's journey had taken him from the beaches of San Clemente, Calif., and the slopes of Sun Valley, Idaho, all the way up the Republican ranks to a job in the first Bush White House at age 26. And it launched him on a jet-setting career as a political fixer manipulating elections in backrooms and palaces from Costa Rica to Croatia, Thailand to Togo, South Korea to the former Soviet Union.
Along the way, he survived disease in Africa and shrapnel in a leg in either the Middle East or the Balkans, depending on whom you believe, and he somehow acquired a mysterious piece of metal - this an autopsy confirmed - in the back of his skull.
"He thought he was invincible," Ms. Fisher said in an interview. "The way he died, it was like Patton dying in a car accident."
At long last, Mr. Stevens, in the months leading up to his demise, was growing tired of his hard-driving life, and he was talking to Ms. Fisher about slowing down, traveling less and maybe building himself a room on her estate.
His life ceased, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's report, when the cocaine and the prescription narcotic oxycodone in Mr. Stevens's system overwhelmed his already enlarged and diseased heart.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I really don't know how to respond to a comment like that. In retrospect I should have said Martin Short or Michael Moore, I think.
Just shorten it to barney Fag like Dick Armey did!!!
This does not have the level of detail required to determine if she was in the same bed, or simply nearby. But if you understand the article about the two of them being close friends, then the Gay references are kind of gratuitous. Seems these two were confidants of one another, not lovers. Sort of a mutual support society. In that context, perhaps they just liked to hang out together, including falling asleep at least in the same room, if not in the same bed. It doesn't compute with me, but loneliness and the need for human companionship probably could explain it.
"....a mysterious piece of metal - this an autopsy confirmed - in the back of his skull."
Ah yes, the mysterious Rovian implant. This story has got to be a full length novel fairly soon.
..and was briefly married.
Also, I don't think she looks 'bad' in those pictures....just middle age, as she is.
Sounds like Carrie got stiffed.
Thank you for making me laugh!
>>Sigh! It gets more and more confusing all the time.
LOL! I guess we're just dinosaurs, doc, as I'm right there with you on this one.
Dan
You are right. I never hear, "Elton John, Gay Musician". Also, if he was still gay, what was he doing sleeping with Princess Leia?
I wouldn't write off Laura yet! Keep the faith!
Sorry. Probably a little too graphic for the AM... or PM for that matter.
uh, yeah. just a bit. I've hit the "report abuse" button for less.
Maybe it was just a slumber party. You know how those guys love to gossip and do each others hair!
She sure didn't get her mom's looks, or personality
His life ceased, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's report, when the cocaine and the prescription narcotic oxycodone in Mr. Stevens's system
Sounds like they just happened to pass out at about the same time.
I think she was married to someone else. And I read right here on FR that she has a child. It was when this dude died that several threads about his death were posted.
I also recall that Carrie Fisher is a Reagan Republican.
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