Posted on 03/03/2009 12:02:09 PM PST by Justaham
Carrie Fisher as Princess Leah
At 52 years, here is Carrie Fisher, looking like Mike Myers. 
Meyer’s doesn’t look that bad!!!!
Now now Luke. Remember, she’s your sister!!!
Published December 2, 2008...
"After describing how she underwent electroshock therapy for her manic depression, Fisher then sorts through her life as her memories return."
No, you made a comment about her weight (that she wasted her looks) and her weight is very likely due, at least in part - to her antipsychotics, not her lifestyle. So as I said, self-righteousness.
Perhaps the problem here is not Carrie Fisher. perhaps the problem is that Mike Myers looks like a 52-year-old woman.
ha ha ha. that could be the case
Ford only made a career cause Lucas and Steven S felt sorry for him.
On his own he wouldn’t have had one either.
Oh, and just for the record it’s Hamill, not Hammill.
Name a Big Block Buster Film he did that didn’t have Speilberg or Lucas involved. Can’t do it.
He looks like the off spring of a shar pei and a basset hound, with spiky hair and earrings.
My light saber just sliced itself in half.
No, but my point is that acting became *very* hard work for him after ANH. He’s stated that’s part of why he didn’t go after more acting gigs.
You noticed that too? lol...
I’m not talking about the adulation on a red carpet or in an arena.
she went through that whole smoking, drugs, and drinking period probably.
nothing melts a physique like chemical abuse.
Hey - is your username a play on “Katie Scarlett” O’Hara? LOL
I agree with you about entertainers being held to their images when they were their best. We know them with makeup, from an iconic screen role. Their appearance is frozen in time for us- but time marches on. We have them in our heads as how they looked ‘then’.
Who among us would want to be constantly compared to our very best picture in our 20’s? And in film, we would likely not recognize the ‘hot’ young stars of today without the magic of professional makeup and lighting. Unrealistic to expect our ‘stars’ to freeze in time. Of course, with lots of $$ they should look better than the regular person, but genetics is a factor too.
Fisher DOES seem to have had some facial work done. She had a long face, prominent chin, and now her face seems square and wide. Maybe its weight, but it looks to be more than that. Also, the effects of powerful drugs on the system have an affect on appearance- look at Jerry Lewis lately! He was on some drugs for a physical problem and he swelled up to unrecognizable proportions- especially his face.
Mark is still hot. I don’t know any 56 year old men who look so good. He’s aged well, getting that rugged, Eastwood look.
Also- compare the lives. He ended up as you imagine Luke would- solid, long marriage, one wife, 3 pretty kids. No scandal- well liked.
Lifestyle does have an effect. Genetics too. He’s Swedish and Irish, getting a bit of that Cagney look as he gets older. But to compare him now to ‘77 is ludicrous. He was one of the prettiest men I’ve ever seen on screen. Tanned, blonde, big blue eyes and an incandescent smile- 25 and he looked 18. 30 years has to change that- it changes us all- and men don’t have the luxury of hiding behind serious face makeup every day.
Mark looks DAMNED good to this woman!
It’s interesting to wonder what he might have looked like without all the reconstructive surgery he had to have done after his car wreck.
Not that he’s bad looking now, but he was entirely different face in Empire—they could have recast the part and not gotten a much more different face.
And I don’t-and didn’t- see much difference in his face. His nose is smaller( it had to be reconstructed from ear cartilage), shorter and upturned, which changed his profile some. But aside from a scar on his top lip, his distinctive features remained the same- lips, eyes, chin.
It is a testament to both his courage, and his surgeon, that he went on to make ESB and ROTJ. That had to be horrific for a ‘perfect’ looking young man to have face damage when his face was the most important thing to his career.
And he must have had an excellent surgeon back in ‘76. Look at Michael Jackson’s nose now! Many examples of plastic surgery in Hollywood are melting now. Of course, elective cosmetic surgery may not be as good as medically necessary reconstructive surgery.
In any case, it doesn’t look as tho Mark has had any follow up surgery to ‘perfect’ anything( good for him!) and his
‘damaged’( I prefer to call it survivor) face is holding up better than most 56 year old celebrities who vainly try to look ‘young’ forever.
Harrison Ford's face still looks good for 65.
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