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"Carrie Fisher's Oasis\nThe Actress's Spirited Residence in the Hollywood Hills\n\"The architecture is early California Spanish with a heavy showbiz influence,\" says actress and author Carrie Fisher of her 1919 Beverly Hills house.\nA porch fronts the entrance. \"I found the big foot at a store on Beverly Boulevard in L.A.,\" she says.\n\"It's a long house, with one room leading straight into another,\" says Fisher. \"Eerily absent are hallways.\"\n\n\"The porch is a great place to sneak cigarettes,\" she jokes. With the help of friends, Fisher\u2014whose most recent novel is titled The Best Awful\u2014tends the gardens herself.\nFisher keeps her collection of animal portraits in the living room. \"My daughter, Billie, used to do shows under the arch for a captive audience,\" she remembers. Beyond the arch, whose decorative painting was done by artist Michael Foulkrod, is the dining room. Steinway piano.\nFamily portraits rest on the mantel in Fisher's bedroom, over which hangs a work by Donald Roller Wilson. At right is a picture of the actress's mother, Debbie Reynolds, with Joan Crawford. The wood frames \"were bought over the years at an antiques center in Chelsea.\"\n\"I was once told you could tell what you wanted from your life by looking at the walls of your bedroom,\" says Fisher. \"If this is the case, I'm in a lot of trouble.\" She refers to the selection of paintings depicting children as \"a difficult and costly collection to increase.\"\nThe den, or red room, is filled with gifts from friends. \"The little chest- of-drawers table is from Penny Marshall, the round table was given to me by Amy Pascal, and the jukebox, which plays 100 of my favorite CDs, is from Dr. Arnold Klein.\" Leather chair, Rituals. Sofa from Ligne Roset.\nThe rear porch is home to Mexican pottery left behind by previous owner Edith Head.\nThe guesthouse. \"A friend and I did the landscape design\u2014largely after dark,\" Fisher notes. \"We call ourselves the After 11 Landscaping Company. We are our only clients.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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