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Debbie Reynolds, Spirited Star of 'Singin' in the Rain,' Dies at 84

Debbie Reynolds, Spirited Star of 'Singin' in the Rain,' Dies at 84

Debbie Reynolds, the vivacious actress, dancer and pop star who wowed ’em in the musicals Singin’ in the Rain and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, died Wednesday, just one day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher, passed away, her son Todd told TMZ. She was 84.

Reynolds died after being hospitalized for a medical emergency. On Tuesday, her daughter, the Star Wars actress, author and screenwriter, died of complications from a heart attack she had suffered four days earlier while on a flight from London to Los Angeles.

Years earlier, Reynolds suffered heartbreak of another kind when her husband and Carrie's father, pop singer Eddie Fisher, left her to be with actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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This happened to my grandparents. My grandfather had a heart attack at 8:30AM as he was opening his store for business and died. My grandmother had a stroke after she had been told about it and died later that same day.

The stress of losing a loved one obviously can trigger bad things in a person predisposed towards strokes.
 
Inside Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher’s Upcoming HBO Documentary: ‘It’s a Love Story’

The deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher over the past 48 hours have left the team behind the upcoming HBO documentary on the mother and daughter reeling from shock.

“Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher” is a chronicle of the extraordinary bond that mother and daughter forged over six decades in the unrelenting glare of showbiz’s spotlight. Documentary vets Fisher Stevens and Alexis Bloom directed and produced the film, which screened in October at the New York Film Festival and before that in Cannes.

“It’s a love story,” said HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins told Variety Wednesday night after the news broke of Reynolds’ death at the age of 84.

“Carrie wanted to make ‘Bright Lights’ for Debbie and Debbie wanted to make it for Carrie,” Nevins said. The sudden loss of two women only magnify the importance of Fisher and Bloom capturing the material for the movie when they did.
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https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/de...her-bright-lights-hbo-documentary-1201949513/
 
FreddyE1977 said:
This happened to my grandparents. My grandfather had a heart attack at 8:30AM as he was opening his store for business and died. My grandmother had a stroke after she had been told about it and died later that same day.

The stress of losing a loved one obviously can trigger bad things in a person predisposed towards strokes.
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Recently also happened with a couple from my church. They were both in their 80s. Had been married for nearly 64 years. Both died a day apart. The local ABC affiliate picked up the story, and Good Morning America took it national.
 
RadioPatrol said:
http://heavy.com/entertainment/2016...ip-affair-love-marriage-husband-relationship/

Apparently some media outlets are putting emphasis on a sex scandal from 60 years ago involving Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, and Eddie Fisher.
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They just can't let it go, eh? Despite the fact that it happened six decades ago, and the woman is now lying in
a funeral home, having her wake next to her own daughter?

And some of you wonder why the American public has grown to hate the media?
 
FreddyE1977 said:
People use banks every day, and they don't much like them either.
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Doesn't matter. People say one thing and do another. Debbie Reynolds' popularity increased because her husband dumped her for Liz Taylor. And the affair killed her husband's popularity. She was "America's Sweetheart." Those are the facts, regardless of whether people love or hate the media. They love the media when it reports what they want to know, and this was a story they loved.

I expect her face will be on the cover of People next week. Why? Because it sells magazines. Simple.
 
FYI according to Google, the top two searches this week have been for Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, with over 10+ million searches apiece. That's far above the number of searches for any other story this week:

https://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

Why is the media reporting it? Because people are interested. No other reason.
 
TheBigA said:
Why is the media reporting it? Because people are interested. No other reason.
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I suspect a great number of those inquiries are because the vast majority of people were not alive when Reynolds achieved her big break in the 1950's and/or have only foggy memories of the Fisher/Reynolds/Taylor event. I am 72 and just barely remember it.
 
landtuna said:
I suspect a great number of those inquiries are because the vast majority of people were not alive when Reynolds achieved her big break in the 1950's and/or have only foggy memories of the Fisher/Reynolds/Taylor event.
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I agree...it's all news to them. But their passion the story has driven them to find out more. That's one of the things they teach in media school.
 
landtuna said:
I suspect a great number of those inquiries are because the vast majority of people were not alive when Reynolds achieved her big break in the 1950's and/or have only foggy memories of the Fisher/Reynolds/Taylor event. I am 72 and just barely remember it.
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One of my links later stated that somehow Reynolds and Taylor reconciled from the biggest scandal of the 1950's




In the end, Fisher lost both women to divorce, but Taylor and Reynolds were able to repair their ruptured friendship as the years went by. They were close enough that Reynolds once brought Taylor a pumpkin pie, and they watched the Tom Cruise movie, “The Last Samurai” together while chatting on the bed, said UK Daily Mail.

The rapprochement occurred on a cruise ship, Reynolds recalled to Access Hollywood. “Elizabeth and I went on a cruise ship and we were on the same boat … she sent a note to me and I sent a note to her to say ‘Let’s just forget about it,'” Reynolds said of the incident, which happened in the 1960s or 1970s, said Access Hollywood.

Neither was with Fisher anymore. Taylor had moved on to Richard Burton, and Reynolds had moved on to her second husband, Harry Karl.
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