The Most of Nora Ephron

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a b c d e f g h i j k Dance, Liz (2015). Everything is Copy. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-9674-7. Ephron started her career writing the screenplays for Silkwood (1983), Heartburn (1986), and When Harry Met Sally... (1989), the latter of which earned the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, and was ranked by the Writers Guild of America as the 40th greatest screenplay of all time. [3] [4] [2] She made her directorial film debut with comedy-drama This Is My Life (1992) followed by the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Michael (1996), You've Got Mail (1998), Bewitched (2005), and the biographical film Julie & Julia (2009).

Ephron was born in New York City in 1941, to the playwrights Henry and Phoebe Ephron. When she was five, the family moved to Los Angeles, where the Ephrons wrote for the movies. Henry and Phoebe were talented—they penned several sharp screwball comedies, including the Hepburn-Tracy vehicle “Desk Set”—but they also struggled, battling both alcoholism and the occasional allegation of Communist sympathizing. Doidge doesn’t have much original research about Nora’s youth; many of her quotes come from Ephron’s public interviews and essays, as well as from “Everything Is Copy,” a 2015 documentary directed by Ephron’s son, the journalist Jacob Bernstein. But she does speak to a few of Ephron’s old summer-camp friends, one of whom recalls Ephron as a “natural leader.” The most telling detail is from Ephron’s years at Camp Tocaloma, in Arizona, where she would regale her bunkmates with her mother’s lively letters from home. “My friends—first at camp, then at college—would laugh and listen, utterly rapt at the sophistication of it all,” Ephron said in her mother’s eulogy, in 1971.Her account of the one time JFK spoke to her (she couldn’t hear because of the helicopter he was about to get on) and her response to him (‘what?’) is so funny, I cannot stop giggling. This humor-filled novel chronicles the breakup of the perfect marriage—adultery, revenge, therapy, and all. Ephron is so funny and hospitable that it's tempting to devour it. With a few exceptions, including essays about wanting bigger breasts and feeling bored when getting manicures, it will entertain male readers as much as women. Independent

Ragtime, The Scottsboro Boys, The Addams Family and Finian's Rainbow Top Nominations for 2010 Drama Desk Awards". Nora Ephron: From D.C. Intern to Hollywood Hit". ABC News. Archived from the original on November 28, 2016 . Retrieved November 28, 2016. This collection of interviews dives into the Ephron’s early years as a journalist, but it includes her final interview, a tear-jerking piece originally published in the Believer magazine.It is great to see the variety of Ephron’s career. She’s best known as a screenwriter, but that’s far from all she did. Editor Robert Gottlieb states that the point of the book is to show the richness of her writing and the amazing variety of her career, which it does, but in the end I didn’t enjoy it as much as I wanted to. She was Hollywood kept honest by New York, a cultural sophisticate driven by the gritty, truth-obsessed heart of a journalist. Ephron was married for more than 20 years to screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi from 1987 until her death in 2012. The couple lived in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles and in New York City. [ citation needed] Fans of Nora Ephron’s novels and screenplays will love her candid essays that reflect on her own ups and downs, including menopause, maintenance, and empty nesting. Glassman, Thea (September 12, 2016). "Richard Cohen and Nora Ephron: The Real-Life Harry and Sally". The Forward. The Forward Organization, Inc . Retrieved May 28, 2017.