Occasionally, Fisher’s one-liners (the title included) overreach into silliness, but as directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato - whose examinations of notorious women include “Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal,” “Monica in Black and White” and “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” - “Wishful Drinking” plays like a knowing valentine to the boozy, blowsy, “Mad Men”-era days of Hollywood. Perhaps foremost, Fisher manages to continue her jaundiced, fun-house trip through her frazzled (though in many ways, privileged) existence without descending into self-pity - ruefully describing celebrity as “obscurity biding its time.” The actress-author also playfully banters with the audience, insisting she’s “a good person, much like Sarah Palin.” Based on the crowd drawn to her show (taped in New Jersey), that line elicits the expected enthusiastic response. An ability to laugh at themselves is also a prerequisite for all those who have passed through Fisher’s orbit, including her parents (her father passed away after the special was taped) ex-husbands Paul Simon and CAA’s Bryan Lourd and producer George Lucas, whom she thanks (sardonically, naturally) for her stalkers and putting her face on a Pez Dispenser.įisher truly lights up, though, during the passages where she discusses her parents, including a riotous sequence in which she attempts to connect the dots on not only their sundry marriages but those of their poly-matrimonial spouses as well.
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