Table of Contents
Foreword Carrie Fisher xi
Preface xv
Part I
1 Third Time Is a Charm, or Three Strikes, You're Out? 3
2 Debbie Does Virginia 15
3 Postcards from My Daughter 25
4 Move Over, Hiltons-Reynolds Is in the Hotel Business! 31
5 The Star Theater 43
6 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 57
7 A New Day 65
8 Happy New Year? 69
9 Raid on Roanoke 77
10 Under the Elephant's Tail 85
11 Mother Plays Mother 108
12 Looking for Mr. Wrong 118
13 Divorce American Style 126
14 Hail Mary Deal 127
15 Black Wednesday 133
16 Bottoming Out in Beverly Hills 138
17 On the Road Again 146
18 Family and Faith 156
19 These Old Broads 167
20 I'm Princess Leia's Mother 186
21 Hollywood & Highland 198
22 September 10, 2001 203
23 Museum, Interrupted 211
24 On to Pigeon Forge 215
25 Another Day in Court 222
26 June 18, 2011 234
Part II
Debbie Does Eighty 253
Miss Burbank 1948 262
MGM: "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven" 276
Acknowledgments 407
The Films of Debbie Reynolds 411