The Last Night: Our icon is an actress everyone knows.

When this author suffered that recent attack, it got me to thinking about whether he is the reason an iconic actress is dead.

There are certainly enough suspicions to make him one of the more likely suspects.

Our icon is an actress everyone knows.

Her parents were equally as high on the list and she has an offspring who is making a name for herself now too.

Every friend and family member will tell you the actress had sworn off drugs and alcohol after the death of a very close friend.

It had been well over a decade of sobriety and there had been no slips and no relapses.

People don’t know that though.

People just remember all the stories of her going to rehab and the years of drugs and booze. So, when someone tells you she died from a heart attack and there were a handful of different drugs found in her system and those precipitated the heart attack and how she ended up dead.

Supposedly the drugs were ingested nearly three days before the heart attack.

That is a ling time between taking them and the deadly result.

Maybe she was supposed to die sooner.

Maybe she needed a little push in that direction.

The night prior to her death, she had dinner and then a late night with the abovementioned author.

He was supposed to spend the night, but left early.

Did he have the opportunity to slip the actress something to finish off the job?

Yes.

Perhaps it wasn’t even to finish off the job, but to give her something else she wanted.

Again though, she had been sober for a very long time.

Was she under the control of someone the final two-three days of her life.

Other than airport employees, the only person she saw was the author.

Because of her past history, everyone chose to believe the old demons got her and didn’t look at the person everyone would have if she had been sober her entire life.

Salman Rushdie

Carrie Fisher

parents: Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher

offspring: Billie Lourd

Carrie Fisher Spent Her Last Dinner with Salman Rushdie, Sharon Horgan and Lots of Laughter

The night before Carrie Fisher suffered a major heart attack on a flight, she had dinner with novelist Salman Rushdie, a longtime friend, and Catastrophe co-creator Sharon Horgan. However, Horgan almost skipped what turned out to be their last time together.

Fisher was in London filming season 3 of Catastrophe, the Emmy-nominated Amazon series, before she died at 60 after suffering a heart attack during her flight back to Los Angeles. The Star Wars actress invited Horgan to dinner.

“It was the day after our last day’s filming of Catastrophe and I was monstrously hungover and tired and incapable,” Horgan wrote in an essay published by The Guardian. “I tried to cry off and she reminded me that she had dragged her ass all the way out to Hackney to see me the week before and I should return the favour. So I did. Thank the dark lord, I did.”

Horgan also tried to dodge the outing by saying she was “not feeling smart enough” to chat with Fisher’s pal Rushdie, but Fisher waved off the excuse.

“So we met and chatted and laughed and Gary (her dog) farted while Carrie handed out presents (me, an antique cocktail stick holder; Salman, a pair of chocolate t-ts),” said Horgan. “When he popped to the loo, Carrie said: ‘See? Isn’t he fun? Do you like him?’ Of course I did. But what I liked more was that she cared enough to make sure I was having fun.”

Horgan continued, “And that was her wont. If she felt that she was talking about herself too much, she would say: ‘Wait! What about you? We haven’t talked about you.’” – Source

‘The attack on Salman Rushdie is an attack on creative imagination’

Last week’s attack on writer Salman Rushdie, 75, in Chautauqua, New York, while he waited to deliver a lecture, has left the literary and art world in shock. “The attack on Rushdie was an attack on the creative imagination. The barbaric and inhuman assassination attempt that played itself out in New York is also an indictment of those who continue to live by hate. Books and ideas survive — they continue to resonate and it is difficult to kill them,” says Delhi-based Namita Gokhale, writer, co-founder and co-organiser of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF).

Sanjoy Roy, managing director of Teamwork Arts, which organises the JLF, said, “Besides being really sad, it shows that violence has been normalised, how terrorists are making their intent clear in public places.”

Rushdie was issued a fatwa in the February of 1989 by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, after India’s Rajiv Gandhi-led government banned his book, Satanic Verses (1988). India was the first country in the world to do so. Others followed suit. A month prior to that, Safdar Hashmi was killed, in the middle of a street theatre performance. In the memory of Hashmi, and to fight for the freedom of speech and expression, artistes came together to form Sahmat in 1992. Sahmat celebrates 50 years this year, “and we have stood up for his (Rushdie’s) freedom of speech,” says co-founder and photographer Ram Rahman. – Source