From 2017: Just weeks before “Star Wars” premièred, Carrie Fisher called Columbia University in search of a private philosophy coach. Forty years later, her tutor reflected on the experience.
Fisher invited Notturno to movie-watching parties at her apartment, showing off her Yoda to celebrities whom he didn’t recognize. “You have to realize, I was intensely into philosophy, and I didn’t know any of these people,” he said. “I remember meeting . . . Teri Garr? She was an actress, and she actually made something that was pretty famous, but she hadn’t made it then. Carrie’s mother was there one day. I only vaguely—I certainly didn’t know her mother was Debbie Reynolds.
Notturno flaunted his star pupil just a little. “My friend Ted Talbot in the philosophy department was a huge ‘Star Wars’ fan,” he recalled. “Carrie and I went to his apartment on Eighty-ninth Street, and when he came to the door, Carrie said, ‘Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.’ ” Walking down Broadway toward Fisher’s old building, Notturno had a hazy flashback. “I remember us heading uptown in a limo with . . . was it David Geffen?” he said, as if to inquire whether David Geffen is accurately a person’s name. When it was mentioned that the actor Griffin Dunne was Fisher’s friend, Notturno rethought the memory. “David Geffen? Griffin Dunne?” he said, weighing the names in his hands to illustrate the possible mixup. “I think it was David Geffen,” he decided.
Dunne was Fisher’s roommate at the El Dorado—platonically. He doesn’t remember meeting Notturno. “I remember she was doing something with philosophy,” Dunne said the other day. “Both Carrie and I, shamefully, were high-school dropouts. I was kicked out in tenth grade, and she dropped out to be an actress and to be in her mom’s musical. We both felt really guilty about it, so we were taking classes.
The philosophy sessions didn’t last beyond 1977. Notturno went on to write his Ph.D. dissertation: “Objectivity, Rationality and the Third Realm: Justification and the Grounds of Psychologism.” Fisher became involved with the songwriter Paul Simon. Some might consider Simon, by virtue of his thoughtful lyrics, to be a sort of modern philosopher. “I do think,” Notturno mused, “maybe that was more the sort of thing Carrie had in mind.
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