Why Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds couldn't stay apart

HBO's documentary Bright Lights highlights the intimacy between the famous mother and daughter

The mother-daughter duo that couldn't bear to be apart.
(Image credit: Fisher Family Archives/courtesy of HBO)
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Lili Loofbourow
Lili Loofbourow

Lili Loofbourow is the culture critic at TheWeek.com. She's also a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Review of Books and an editor for Beyond Criticism, a Bloomsbury Academic series dedicated to formally experimental criticism. Her writing has appeared in a variety of venues including The Guardian, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and Slate.

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