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The Business

'Bright Lights' filmmakers on Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When documentarians Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens started working on Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, they could not have imagined it would end up being a posthumous tribute to both women. Originally set to air in March, HBO has moved up the film’s premiere to January 7. 

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0:00.0

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:06.6

And as we began filming, slowly Debbie's health did start to deteriorate, but we would have

0:12.9

never in our wildest dreams thought that what happened happened.

0:16.6

When Fisher Stevens and Alexis Bloom started filming a documentary about Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds in 2014,

0:23.7

they simply expected to make an intimate portrait of an extraordinary mother-daughter duo.

0:29.4

As listeners surely know, Fisher died at 60 on December 27th,

0:33.7

and her mother passed away the next day at 84.

0:37.4

Stevens and Bloom talk about the shock of those losses

0:39.9

and the joys and challenges of making their new documentary,

0:43.6

Bright Lights, starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, for HBO.

0:47.9

But first on the news banter, Megan Kelly makes her move

0:50.9

and how will Lucasfilm manage without Princess Leia?

0:54.3

Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

1:00.8

I am joined by my associate in banter, Michael Schneider, of IndieWire and Variety.

1:06.2

Hello, Michael.

1:06.6

Hello, Kim.

1:07.6

So, big changes in the TV news landscape, as anticipated, I think by you in our end-of-year

1:15.4

banter, our year-ahead banter, one of our banters, Megan Kelly, has departed Fox News for

1:20.7

something very lucrative, but probably she could have gotten something more lucrative at Fox,

1:25.3

but she's going to be at NBC.

1:26.9

She's taking on a big

1:28.0

challenge of trying to do a daytime show plus a weekend news magazine. I mean, this is a kind of

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