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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 13 december 2016
Review: Fisher’s ‘The Princess

Diarist’ doesn’t dish enough

CARA ANNA interesting bits: their chem-
Associated Press istry, their conversations,
“I’ve spent so many years her point-blank impressions
not telling the story of Har- of a man poised to be-
rison and me having an af- come one of Hollywood’s
fair on the first ‘Star Wars’ biggest stars.
movie that it’s difficult to Or maybe we’re sup-
know exactly how to tell posed to believe, as she
it now,” Carrie Fisher an- insists, that Ford just didn’t
nounces on page 49 of her talk a lot when they were
brisk but vague new mem- together. In any case, we
In this Thursday, May 26, 2016, file photo, musician Elton John oir, “The Princess Diarist.” are left with a few inter-
performs during a show in Tel Aviv. Elton John is giving filmmakers
a chance to create music videos for his 1970s hits that were “Excellent, here we go,” esting glimpses wrapped
released before music videos were popular. any solid fan of the real around excerpts of the
Associated Press “Star Wars” movies (cer- This cover image released by diaries Fisher says she kept
tainly not the prequels) will Blue Rider Press shows “The while shooting “Star Wars”
Elton John launching competi- think, settling in for the liter- Princess Diarist,” by Carrie and recently discovered.
Fisher.
Even the diary bits are not
ary equivalent of an ice-
tion to make videos for 70s hits cream sundae of the more Associated Press very revealing, being the
moody musings, including
offbeat flavors.
But Fisher, who accepts wisps of the goods. poetry, of a young woman
NEW YORK (AP) — Elton “Bennie and the Jets.” that she will be known as Fisher blames her hazy on the cusp of 20 years old.
John is giving filmmakers Entries for “Elton John: The Princess Leia until the end recall of the behind-the- It’s clear from the final
a chance to create music Cut” open Jan. 9, 2017. The of time, lets the reader scenes affair with Harrison two chapters of the book,
videos for his 1970s hits that competition closes on Jan. down. Having waited 40 Ford on the potent mari- one of them titled “Leia’s
were released before mu- 23 and creators must be at years to publish what one juana they smoked on their Lap Dance,” that Fisher
sic videos were popular. least 16. expects to be a dishy tell- lost weekends between published this book with
The English singer an- John, Taupin, a panel of all about the romance scenes. She also decides making money in mind.
nounced Monday, in cel- YouTube creators and in- behind the iconic movie that “with uncharacteristic Her closing meditation on
ebration of his 50th an- dustry players will pick three of a generation (that gen- reservation and scruples fame leaves Ford and the
niversary with songwriting winners, and music videos eration mournfully sand- that I quash any details” of affair far behind. However,
partner Bernie Taupin, that will premiere next summer. wiched between the baby their first weekend togeth- many “Star Wars” fans will
he’s launching a competi- Winners will also receive boomers and millennials), er. Sex is private, she says. read this book anyway or
tion with YouTube for aspir- $10,000 from YouTube. the actress, writer and ra- No problem, but she also likely did so the instant it
ing video creators to make Pulse Films will help the film- conteur only offers a few draws the curtain over the appeared.q
music videos for “Rocket makers with production.q
Man,” ‘’Tiny Dancer” and Police detective Karen Pirie
John Legend gets the ‘Green

Light’ for NBA All-Star gig returns in ‘Out of Bounds’

OLINE H. COGDILL unsolved for years. But ma-
Associated Press neuvering the Scottish le-
Detective Chief Inspector gal system to track down
Karen Pirie has always been Garvie’s male relatives is
a workaholic. But now im- fraught with complications.
mersion in her work doesn’t Another case also occu-
just give her life structure, pies Karen’s time — the
it also has become a kind alleged suicide of Ga-
of comfort that allows her briel Abbott, who lived in
to deal with grief in “Out of Kinross.
Bounds,” Val McDermid’s The Abbott case isn’t Kar-
latest exciting novel about en’s, but she becomes
In this Sept. 12, 2016 file photo, John Legend arrives at the “La
La Land” premiere on day 5 of the Toronto International Film this Scottish police detec- nearly obsessed with find-
Festival in Toronto. tive. ing out if his death was
Associated Press Pirie, now head of Police in any way linked to the
Scotland’s small Historic death of his mother, who
NEW YORK (AP) - John Leg- The All-Star game is sched- Cases Unit in Edinburgh, was killed in a plane crash
end will return to the NBA uled Feb. 19 in New Or- tackles a decades-old This book cover image re- decades earlier.
All-Star weekend as the leans. It was moved from murder after 17-year-old leased by Grove Atlantic The caseloads help dis-
shows “Out of Bounds,” a
game’s halftime performer, Charlotte, North Carolina, Ross Garvie goes on a high- novel by Val McDermid. tract Karen from her grief
it was announced Monday. because of a state law that speed ride with three of Associated Press over the death of Phil Par-
The Grammy- and Oscar- requires transgender peo- his friends. A horrific crash hatka, a fellow detective
winning singer-songwriter ple to use bathrooms that results in the death of the son Murray, become in- who was killed in the line
performed the national an- correspond to their birth three drunken teens and volved when Garvie’s of duty. She loved Phil and
them at the annual show- gender in public buildings. leaves Garvie in a coma. DNA is shown to be a fa- longs to discuss every in-
case in Houston in 2013. He Legend released his fifth al- Karen and her partner, milial match to that of a vestigation, twist and theo-
was a halftime performer in bum, “Darkness and Light,” Detective Constable Ja- Glasgow hairdresser whose ry with him. q
Phoenix in 2009. this month.q rape and murder has gone