The Most of Nora Ephron

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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. 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.

Think of The Most of Nora Ephron as a big book of everything you already love about the acute author, bound together into one tome begging to be dog-eared. Oprah Magazine 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] 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. As a high school student, Ephron dreamed of going to New York City to become another Dorothy Parker, an American poet, writer, satirist, and critic. [13] Ephron has cited her high school journalism teacher, Charles Simms, as the inspiration for her pursuit of a career in journalism. [11] She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1958, and from Wellesley College in Massachusetts in 1962 with a degree in political science. [9] Career [ edit ] Early work [ edit ]Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. 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: Past Recipients: Crystal Award". Women in Film. Archived from the original on June 30, 2011 . Retrieved May 10, 2011. A giant gem, suitable for anyone who admired, worshipped or was even jealous of the writer Nora Ephron . . . A nifty Christmas gift. Chicago Tribune There's a lot of different material in this volume. Journalistic writing, her novel Heartburn in its entirety, the script for "When Harry met Sally", various and sundry essays.

She is credited as being a wedding guest in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and as a Dinner Party Guest in Husbands and Wives (1992). Readers will admire their literary heroine even more when, thanks to The MOST of Nora Ephron, they discover, or are reminded, of the brave positions she took, and of how far her preoccupations and her writing ranged.”—Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books 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.In 2006, Ephron was diagnosed with myelodysplasia. [40] She chose not to disclose her diagnosis to friends or colleagues, fearing that the knowledge that she was ill would have impeded her career. [41] On June 26, 2012, Ephron died at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan from pneumonia, as a complication of leukemia, at the age of 71. [6] Even if you‘re a long time fan like me, there will be work here that you’ve missed. I own all of Ephron’s book, but had never read her blog. I’d also missed a lot of her early reporting about politics and journalism for venues like “The New York Post” and “Esquire”

In 1986, Ephron wrote the script for the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally.... Released in 1989, the film was directed by Rob Reiner, and starred Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. The film depicted the decade-long relationship between Harry (Crystal) and Sally (Ryan) as they navigate their own romantic relationships. Ephron claimed that she wrote this screenplay with Reiner in mind as the character of Harry, and herself as the character of Sally. [11] The film has become iconic in the romantic comedy genre, most notably for the scene in which Sally pretends to have an orgasm in the middle of Katz's Deli during lunch. Ephron said she wrote the part of Sally simulating an orgasm into the script per Ryan's suggestions. Additionally, the comment "I'll have what she's having" said by a deli patron (played by Rob Reiner's real-life mother Estelle Reiner) watching the scene unfold nearby, was an idea from Billy Crystal. [22] Ephron's script was nominated for the 1990 Oscar in Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. [22] 1990s [ edit ]I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some ways to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.”