The Most of Nora Ephron

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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. 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 Screen This is a must-read for Nora Ephron fans, who will laugh and cry along through this revealing and insightful look at one of America’s most beloved screenwriters. How Old Was Nora Ephron When She Died? 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.

Very interesting - because Ephron was a journalist in the 70s dealing with sexism and the social upheaval of the time, this section provided really great and unapologetic context for that world. For 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] Borrelli, Christopher (September 27, 2011). " 'Teen Wolf' director's brutally honest commentary". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved April 13, 2015. 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. 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).First of all: I wish the person who put this collection together had inserted themselves a few times. I think broader context for some of the more dated and outdated entries would have been helpful. But alas, he stayed silent. So here are my thoughts: Delia Ephron on the Closeness and Complexity of Sisterhood". Fresh Air. NPR. December 9, 2013. Event occurs at 1:18–1:44 . Retrieved December 11, 2013. Interview. a b c d e f g Hawkins, Ed (March 4, 2007). "Get real – ageing's not all Helen Mirren". The Times. London, UK. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011 . Retrieved August 16, 2007. a b c "BAFTA Awards Search | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023 . Retrieved August 13, 2023. Ephron's directorial debut was the film This Is My Life (1992). Ephron and her sister Delia Ephron wrote the script based on Meg Wolitzer's novel This is Your Life. [11] The film is about a woman who decides to pursue a career in stand-up comedy after inheriting a substantial sum of money from a relative. [11] In a conversation released by Criterion Channel between Lena Dunham, and Ephron, she stated "That movie I made completely for Woody Allen." She later stated in the conversation that he saw it and liked it. [23]

a b McGrath, Charles (June 26, 2012). "Nora Ephron Dies at 71; Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor". The New York Times . Retrieved July 10, 2022. This compendium is split into nine healthy sections. The Journalist takes us through her newspaper years. The Advocate through her writings on the women's movement. The Profiler contains studies of eight notable women and is where Ephron the Essayist begins to emerge. The piece on Pat Loud is particularly sharp: It's got a little bit of everything, from witty essays on feminism, beauty, and ageing to profiles of empowering female figures' ELLEDonnelly, Matt. "Nora Ephron: Celebs, Hollywood react to her death". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved June 27, 2012. For the truly vengeful, the pen (or word processor) is mightier than the sword". Cosmopolitan. July 1, 1996. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007 . Retrieved August 17, 2007. Love, Loss and What I Wore Toronto cast named". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved January 12, 2020.

Gottlieb has arranged “The Most of Nora Ephron” according to facets of Ephron’s identity, including “The Journalist,” “The Advocate,” “The Playwright,” and “The Blogger.” There is a section called “The Novelist,” comprised of the only novel Ephron published, “Heartburn” (1983), here in its entirety and holding up beautifully as a spikey portrait of dealing with divorce and rejection. A lot of dated feelings about food. It was interesting, but definitely weaker than all that preceded it. Nora Ephron and Lena Dunham". Criterion Channel. Archived from the original on March 21, 2020 . Retrieved March 21, 2020. 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. She wasn’t just [the] intrepid reporter and filmmaker...who was played onscreen by no less than Meryl Streep. She was also someone who lived, and who people who never met her felt like they knew...when a writer’s voice makes you feel befriended, you want more of it even after the person is gone. Meg Wolitzer, NPRO'Grady, Megan (September 30, 2014). "Lena Dunham Talks to _Vogue'_s Book Critic About Her New Collection of Essays, Not That Kind of Girl, and Why Now Is Such a Pivotal Time for Women". Vogue . Retrieved April 1, 2020. Kennedy, Lettie. "Nora Ephron: The Last Interview and Other Conversations," The Observer (London) January 17, 2016. Beware of men who cry. It’s true that men who cry are sensitive and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.” When I asked friends and fellow writers how they felt about Ephron, the response was 100% positive. Hugely entertaining...What made Ephron great was that she took the very things seriously that others dismissed as frivolous, Cosmopolitan, Teflon, breast size, and, most of all, herself. Entertainment Weekly

Well all I have been talking about is Nora Ephron for weeks so I’ll keep it short: this book is EVERYTHING, which is not a phrase I use. But it is. So I must.

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Some if it wasn't so much for me. Many of the journal articles were written in the 70's about famous folks who aren't so famous anymore. 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. There are very few writers who can survive the reading of their collected works. Judgments are made, patience tested, fondness has a tendency to wither on the vine. While I would not place Ephron in league with Shakespeare or Pushkin, much like David Foster Wallace, her writing is authentically evocative; she has a fertile mind and a warmly ironic way with words. In fact, I recommend her essays above almost all - and make no mistake, almost all is the nest in which they are housed. Each essay in this fabulous collection reveals a little piece of Nora Ephron and her perspective on herself, life, and the world. Ephron, in turn, gave this good advice to the graduating class at Wellesley, her own alma mater, in 1996: