PAGES : Her Literary Life as Fax Fodder

Carrie Fisher doesn’t know what the fuss is about the faxes.

Even though her life isn’t exactly flashing before her eyes, a fictional facsimile is being faxed for other people’s. A 150-page chunk of Fisher’s upcoming roman a clef , “Delusions of Grandma� has hit the Hollywood information superhighway--only Fisher isn’t exactly sure which chunk.

“I have no idea because no one has faxed it to me.�

The author is always the last to know. Fisher found out recently when someone approached her at the AIDS Project Los Angeles awards and asked whether her ex was brutally murdered at the end.

Fisher says “Delusions� (out in April) has nothing quite that juicy--or cathartic, for that matter.

“The people that are recognizable in the book to my mind are fairly flattering. I think I do a bigger job on me than anybody else, but my lawyers are on to that. I’m suing myself for character defamation.�

If you faxees out there are looking for a harrowing account of Fisher’s breakup from CAA agent Bryan Lourd, you can keep looking.

OK, so the book does star an actress. She does have a baby with a guy she’s not married to. And they do break up.

But the reason for the fictitious split stems from the couple’s loosening ties to a friend stricken with AIDS. Which isn’t how it went down in real life.

“I’m not in the market to do a job on my ex. . . . We have a child. . . . He’s a good father, and I don’t want her to come of readable age and look in the book and see that her father is unflatteringly portrayed. It’s extremely flattering. In fact, I think he owes me a couple of bucks.�