Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesIn 2011, Byron Lane was working the midnight to 7 a.m. graveyard shift as a newswriter for TV station KCAL 9 in Los Angeles when a friend reached out and asked, “Want to work for Princess Leia?” The New Orleans transplant spent the next three years as Carrie Fisher’s personal assistant, doing everything from traveling with her to Australia and Japan to meting out her daily medications, prescribed for her bipolar disorder.Lane, an actor, screenwriter and playwright — his outlandish comedy “Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist,” starring Lane and Tommy Lenk, has played to packed houses in London and New York and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — is now releasing his debut novel, “A Star Is Bored,”.
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