Los Angeles — After decades of fast living that her fearless Star Wars character Princess Leia would have struggled to keep up with, Carrie Fisher died on Tuesday of a massive heart attack. She was 60. The American actress, best-selling author and screenwriter — who suffered from many addictions, which she later turned into writing gold — was a member of Hollywood royalty, on screen and off. Born in Los Angeles in October 1956, the daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher became an international star overnight with the release of Star Wars in 1977. Leia was the tough rebel princess in a white dress with a strange hairdo and blaster guns, who was unafraid to stare down the villainous Darth Vader. Six years later in Return of the Jedi, she became a sex symbol in a barely there metal bikini — but remained the tough heroine, killing her slug-like gangster jailer Jabba the Hutt by choking him with the chain he used to hold her captive. The blockbuster space saga is now...
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