VIDEO : Carrie Fisher's Best Work Was Off Screen

And?just like that? Carrie Fisher is gone. In her first memoir, Wishful Drinking, she wrote about finding a visiting friend deceased in her bed?the arbitrariness, the absurdity?the unthinkability of it. Fisher contained multitudes, all of which had their moment in the klieg lights of her oh-so-public life?and at times they seemed like a bagful of ferrets: She fought drug dependency, alcoholism, and bipolar disorder, but always seemed to land on her feet, coming out swinging. She was top-drawer Hollywood royalty, the daughter of crooner Eddie Fisher and America's-sweetheart-style actress Debbie Reynolds.