Carrie Fisher
Born: October 21, 1956
Known for: Choking Jabba, trying to incinerate Jake, getting head from Jay.
It may be set in a galaxy far, far away, but to the Jews, Star Wars and its Hebrew-heavy cast don't seem much further away than shul. As every Jewish Star Wars fan knows, the original script concerned the efforts of young Leib "Luke" Himelshpatsir and his comrades Herschel "Han" Solowitz and Jewish Princess Leah to save the galaxy, but Hollywood execs found it "too Jewish," and forced a less ethnic rewrite. The Jews, however, remained, and none is finer than Carrie "Princess Leia" Fisher. In the space of six years, she went from chubby cheeks and cinnamon-bun hair to the lithe plaything of Jabba the Hutt, in the process becoming inextricably associated with the words "metal bikini" in male minds from here to Tatooine. Her career post-Star Wars is spotty (save for her psychotic turn in The Blues Brothers), but who cares? Once again: metal bikini.
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