Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds Have Officially Been Laid To Rest

Toward the end of Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, Reynolds rests on a couch, frail but sparkling after receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild.

“People are heartbroken”, Reynolds’ son Todd Fisher told The News.

Fisher, who died at 60 on December 27, was cremated earlier this week but according to TMZ and Entertainment Tonight, some of her ashes were separated and placed in a coffin next to that of her 84-year-old mother, who succumbed to an apparent stroke one day after her daughter’s death. Even leaving aside Fisher’s age – she died at 60 – and the oddness of their close passings, it’s hard to imagine show business without them. If you feel up to it, you can tune in to HBO on Saturday (tomorrow!) January 7 at 8pm and do just that by watchingBright Lights.

The Hollywood star had previously been removed from a flight after falling ill earlier in the week. “They’re pretty f*cking cool individually, but together they’re just fantastic”, she says, speaking to Bustle via phone a week after the stars’ deaths.

“We couldn’t find anything appropriate”.

“I think that’s her”. She went to Fisher so HBO Documentary Films could tape a version for the channel. After all, that’s what she was trained to do as a young ingenue at MGM, where she began working in 1948 – training that served her well throughout life.

The film’s revealing in other ways, too.

She shot to fame in the musical movie Singin’ in the Rain and also appeared on Broadway in Woman of the Year and the musical revue Debbie.

Streep was among the first stars arriving at Fisher’s home, spotted wearing all-black outfit with a bouquet of white flowers on her hands.

“It’s making up 10”, she said of the pilot accelerating the landing. Fisher touchingly wrote of how in the midst of a bipolar episode, she signed herself into a mental hospital with the signature “shame”. Yet when I once asked her about her married life – she had three weddings – Debbie responded: “When I look at my life in hindsight, I can tell you that Eddie Fisher was the best of my husbands”. She saw it as a privilege, one that allowed them both to strengthen their relationship and preserve the Debbie Reynolds they held dear.

Reynolds and Davis were co-stars in the 1956 movie “The Catered Affair“. “If she’s breathing she’ll come back”.

“They loved to make each other laugh, sometimes in ways that are not always comfortable”. On stage she jokes, with expert timing, “I should have married Burt Reynolds”. “Even if that’s irritating”.

“My mother was one of the most giving people with charities and my sister, of course, was another of the most giving”. She resisted her mom’s hope that she become a singer, defied her wish to shy away from the edgy material in her film debut, Shampoo. Says Fisher “My mother is performing a show in CT”.