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...Carrie Fisher is an anomaly in Hollywood: a demonstrably clever celebrity. (I say demonstrably because plenty of celebrities are extremely clever; they just tend to keep it to themselves.) Fisher is the author of four novels, several screenplays and two autobiographical one-woman shows. Now she's written a memoir, or rather adapted it from her show of the same name, Wishful Drinking (Simon & Schuster; 163 pages...
...Fisher is, as she puts it, a "product of Hollywood inbreeding": her mother is Debbie Reynolds, and her father is the singer Eddie Fisher. After her father left Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor, Fisher grew up emotionally dependent on her mother, which presented difficulties because her mother was emotionally dependent on being famous. "I really didn't like sharing her," Fisher writes. "It seemed almost unsanitary."(See the 100 best novels of all time...
...down just 29%, according to mutual-fund tracker Morningstar. And many retirees looking to minimize risk wisely hold a smaller percentage of stocks than the average balanced fund (and also may own insured bank CDs). Which means a more typical experience for them is a 20% loss, says Gregg Fisher, president of Gerstein Fisher, a financial adviser in New York City. That's not fun, but it's nowhere near as bad as the headlines...
...starters, prices are being slashed on everything. And if the current malaise drags on, it will take a major bite out of inflation - one that could literally offset the decline in your portfolio. "The real enemy of retirement is inflation," notes Fisher. He points to this model: Say you have a $2.5 million nest egg that is growing 7% a year. In one scenario, you have no extraordinary economic events and normal long-term growth that produces inflation of 4% a year as you age from 65 to 95. In the second scenario, a severe recession knocks your portfolio down...
...hasn't been the best time to be a Republican - and even worse if you are a black Republican. Take the experience of Ada Fisher. This fall, the Salisbury, N.C., physician ran for a state general-assembly seat representing a mostly white, working-class district. Several black college students who campaigned on her behalf were dissed by peers as "Uncle Toms." Then, in September, as Fisher walked toward the local Republican Party's booth at a county fair, a white man told her to go back to the Democratic Party booth "where she belonged" and to support Barack Obama. Never...