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Post #503744

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xhonzi
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The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie. Or is it?
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Date created
3-Jun-2011, 12:18 PM

I'm glad this thread is still going, because I was catching up- reading page 3 and was afraid I wouldn't be able to add my worthless comment:

Someone (I think it was page 3) said that the "walking carpet" line was unbecoming or out of character for Leia because she was a Royal Princess.  That reminded me of a bit from Wishful Drinking by Princess Leia Carrie Fischer herself.  She wrote of her "mom" and "Debbie Reynolds" being two different people.  The dressing room had two doors- through one her mom entered, and hours later Debbie Reynolds, the movie star, exited through the other.  At the end of the night, Debbie Reynolds would return and the process ran in reverse.

Reynolds was born/raised in El Paso, TX, but had diction training to remove her Texas accent.  Carrie wrote that her mother used the queens English at home as well... unless she had a particularly bad day and the Texas came out swinging.  That's when she and her brother knew they were in trouble.

It doesn't seem incorrect to me in the least for a Royal Princess to have quite a mouth on her when she wants to.