The best plays of 2002–2003. Jenkins, Jeffrey Eric. (84thed.). [New York]: Limelight Editions. 2004. ISBN 0879103035. OCLC 55139647. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link) a b c d e "Academy Awards Search | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023 . Retrieved August 13, 2023. 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.

In the language of now, Nora Ephron’s personal pieces, included in this rich, overstuffed new collection, are the kinds of selfies that don’t look fake and don’t make you sneer. If you cringe while reading “The Most of Nora Ephron,” it’s because what she has written is so painfully true. Meh. Most of this was written around 2005 - 2007, and it's mostly just rantings about Bush and Watergate. My least favorite section by far; I skimmed it because of that, and also because it was repetitive. Another cornerstone for the 3-star rating. Ephron was born in New York City on May 19, 1941, to a Jewish family. [9] She was the eldest of four daughters, and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. [10] Her parents, Phoebe (née Wolkind) and Henry Ephron, were both East Coast-born playwrights and screenwriters. Her parents named her Nora after the protagonist in the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. [11] Nora's younger sisters, Delia and Amy, are also writers. Her sister Hallie Ephron is a journalist, book reviewer, and novelist who writes crime fiction. Ephron's parents based the ingenue character in the play and film version of Take Her, She's Mine on the 22-year-old Nora and her letters from college; Sandra Dee played the character based on Nora in the film version, with James Stewart portraying her father. [12] Both her parents became alcoholics during their declining years. [10]NYC's Love, Loss and What I Wore Welcomes Haylie Duff, Penny Fuller and More". Playbill. July 2, 2010 . Retrieved January 12, 2020. It's got a little bit of everything, from witty essays on feminism, beauty, and ageing to profiles of empowering female figures' ELLE Ephron, in turn, gave this good advice to the graduating class at Wellesley, her own alma mater, in 1996: a b c "BAFTA Awards Search | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023 . Retrieved August 13, 2023. Unlike most compilations, this has an air of autobiography mixed with memoirs, commentary and scripts which make for an interesting view of Nora's life. For those unfamiliar she's renown for writing/directing "Heartburn", "Harry met Sally", "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Julie & Julia" among others.

A lot of dated feelings about food. It was interesting, but definitely weaker than all that preceded it. When I asked friends and fellow writers how they felt about Ephron, the response was 100% positive.

Williams, John (June 27, 2012). "Nora Ephron, the Queen of Quips". The New York Times . Retrieved June 28, 2012. A big, gratifying collection . . . It’s the work of a brilliant woman who took copious notes on four decades of tumultuous social and political history and who exerted astonishing authorial control over the story of her own place within that history . . . A stirring portrait of both a nation in flux and of an extraordinary woman who retained a tight grip on her place within it, right till the end.”—Rebecca Traister , Los Angeles Times When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”

I cried. It was great. Also, I didn't know that Betty Freidan became such a fractious and narrow-minded figure in her later years. a b Goodman, Stephanie (April 25, 2013). "Nora Ephron Prize Is Given to Director of Farah Goes Bang". The New York Times. After a satire in Monocle she wrote lampooning the New York Post caught the editor's eye, Ephron accepted a job at the Post, where she worked as a reporter for five years. [12] In 1966, she broke the news in the Post that Bob Dylan had married Sara Lownds in a private ceremony. [17] After becoming a successful writer, she wrote a column on women's issues for Esquire. [10] In this position, Ephron made a name for herself by writing " A Few Words About Breasts", a humorous essay about body image that "established her as the enfant terrible of the New Journalism". [18] While at Esquire, she took on subjects as wide-ranging as Dorothy Schiff, her former boss and owner of the Post; Betty Friedan, whom she chastised for pursuing a feud with Gloria Steinem; and her alma mater Wellesley, which she said had turned out "a generation of docile and unadventurous women". [12] A 1968 send-up of Women's Wear Daily that she wrote for Cosmopolitan resulted in threats of a lawsuit from WWD. [12] When Harry Met Sally is one of my favorite movies, so obviously reading the screenplay was a delight. After the screenplay concludes we get a brief reflective from Ephron, penned in 1990. She breaks down the politics of writing a movie (how many edits you go through, how much the characters of your voices change), and also lifts the curtain a bit on the goings ons with When Harry Met Sally. I did not know that it was Meg Ryan's idea to fake an orgasm in Katz's ; nor did I realize Billy Crystal came up with the famous "I'll have what she's having line." Good on Ephron for being honest that these bits don't belong to her. Sadly, Nora Ephron died at the age of 71. In 2012 she suffered pneumonia as a complication of leukemia. She had been diagnosed with myelodysplasia in 2006. Ephron’s Work on the Big ScreenFor many years, Ephron was one of the very few people who knew the identity of Deep Throat, the anonymous informer for articles written by her ex-husband Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward uncovering the Watergate scandal. [38] Ephron read Bernstein's notes, which referred to Deep Throat as "MF"; [38] Bernstein said it stood for "My Friend", but Ephron correctly guessed it stood for Mark Felt, the former associate director of the FBI. [38]