The Most of Nora Ephron

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It's got a little bit of everything, from witty essays on feminism, beauty, and ageing to profiles of empowering female figures' ELLE 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] Bernstein, Adam (June 26, 2012). "Nora Ephron, prolific author and screenwriter, dies at age 71". The Washington Post . Retrieved June 27, 2012. 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.

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 ] When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” Nora Ephron Biography Photo". 2007. Awards Council member and famed filmmaker George Lucas presenting award-winning director and screenwriter Nora Ephron with the Golden Plate Award at the 2007 International Achievement Summit in Washington, D.C. 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.a b Ephron, Nora (2015). The Last Interview and Other Conversations. Brooklyn, New York: Melville House Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61219-524-7. I almost bought this for a friend’s birthday present - and I’m glad I didn’t. Not because the writing isn’t funny, intelligent and interesting (it is) but because this isn’t the best way to enjoy it. I’ve previously ready Heartburn, a small extract of which is included in this edition, and I’m glad this isn’t my first introduction to Ephron’s writing, because otherwise it may have been my last. She is credited as being a wedding guest in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and as a Dinner Party Guest in Husbands and Wives (1992). Nguyen, Hanh (October 31, 2016). " 'Good Girls Revolt': The Women Who Fought for Equality in the Newsroom | IndieWire". www.indiewire.com . Retrieved November 26, 2016. Ephron, in turn, gave this good advice to the graduating class at Wellesley, her own alma mater, in 1996:

By then, Ephron had found the real thing. In 1987, she married Nicholas Pileggi, who wrote the books (and the screenplays) that became “Goodfellas” and “Casino,” and who remained with her until her death. In Ephron’s final film, “Julie & Julia” (2009), she explored her hallmark themes beyond the boundaries of time or traditional romance. The story flits between two threads: one, set in the fifties, in which Julia Child (Meryl Streep) strains to publish her first book, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” in a male-dominated industry, and another, set in the two-thousands, in which Julie Powell (Amy Adams), a failed novelist trapped in a soul-crushing job, becomes so devoted to Child’s book that she decides to cook each of its five hundred and twenty-four recipes in the course of a year. Also, she’ll blog about it. Published in 1970, Wallflower at the Orgy is a collection of magazine articles that offer a hilarious, provocative, and revealing look at America’s passions, pastimes, and shortcomings. In 1983, Ephron co-scripted the film Silkwood with Alice Arlen. The film, directed by Mike Nichols, starred Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood, a whistleblower at the Kerr McGee Cimarron nuclear facility who dies under suspicious circumstances. [20] Ephron and Arlen were nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1984 for Silkwood. [21]I particularly enjoyed Ephron’s magazine journalism from the 1970s, especially her articles about the dawn of the Women‘s Movement, which vividly evoke the sense of possibility, solidarity and excitement (not to mention the petty infighting and rivalries) of those early days. After Ephron's marriage with Bernstein ended, Ephron revealed Deep Throat's identity to her son Jacob and anyone else who asked. She once said, "I would give speeches to 500 people and someone would say, 'Do you know who Deep Throat is?' And I would say, 'It's Mark Felt.'" [10] Classmates of Jacob at the Dalton School and Vassar College recall him revealing to numerous people that Felt was Deep Throat. This revelation attracted little media attention despite Deep Throat's identity being publicly unknown. Ephron said, "No one, apart from my sons, believed me." [39] Ephron was invited by Arianna Huffington to write about the experience in The Huffington Post, for which Ephron was a regular blogger and part-time editor. [38] Death and legacy [ edit ] Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. 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, NPR Nora, thankfully, provided the witty woman writer with a much better template. You can be female and funny, and you can soar, both personally and professionally. Not without challenges, of course, but Nora showed us how to navigate those as well. When hubby Carl Bernstein betrayed her, for instance, Ephron turned his betrayal into the best-selling “Heartburn,” then went on to find lasting love with writer Nicholas Peggi.

a b c d Ephron, Nora (May 31, 2005). "Deep Throat and Me: Now It Can Be Told, and Not for the First Time Either". HuffPost . Retrieved December 19, 2008. Born to parents who were alcoholic screen writers, she inherited the gift of writing. Soon after graduating college she dove into the world of NY journalism where both newspapers and magazines employed her. During those years, her love for cooking grew as did her sense of humor which was dampened during her second marriage to Carl Bernstein. The persistent type, Nora's insights on marriage, parenting and cooking make for engaging, funny and in some cases, heart wrenching stories. I'd never read Heartburn before and I really loved it. It's nothing groundbreaking, just a lightly fictionalized retelling of Ephron's own divorce, but the way she wrote it was just so vivid. It underscores how talented of a writer Ephron was.

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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's son, Jacob Bernstein, directed an HBO movie on her life titled Everything Is Copy. [36] As of 2021, he was a reporter for The New York Times. [37]