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The Spectacle Blog
Journalist, author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron died today of acute myeloid leukemia. She was 71.
Ephron is best known for penning several romantic comedies When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail. All of which featured Meg Ryan and all of which attained critical and commercial success. Ephron also directed Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail. She received Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. Earlier in her career, Ephron also received an Oscar nomination for her writing for Silkwood. Her 1983 novel Heartburn (loosely based on her marriage to Carl Bernstein of Woodward and Bernstein fame) was also adapted for the big screen. Ephron’s last movie Julie & Julia which she wrote, directed and produced was released in 2009.
Before she embarked on her writing career, Ephron briefly worked for President Kennedy after graduating from Wellesley College. Ephron quipped that she was “probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House that the president did not make a pass at.”
Here’s an interview Ephron did in 2010 about writing and movie making.
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Kitty | 6.27.12 @ 7:34AM
I love Nora Ephron's writing. "Heartburn," with one of the best openings ever, was the first book of hers I read. I avoided her politics, but I love her style.
Frog in Uniform | 6.27.12 @ 9:02AM
I really liked the three movies with Meg Ryan. I would have loved her to cast Jim Carrey in any of her movies. With a good director like her the result would have been fantastic. Great lady.
Mick Lee| 6.27.12 @ 9:12AM
A glance at her filmography reveals a fair share of hits and misses. Some 0f her "hits" I thought were over-rated and some of her "failures" were much better than popular opinion thought. 'But..then again...when the same can't be said of most Hollywood figures?
Her politics stunk but she was a winner as a human being. May the Lord receive her in His goodness and mercy.
TinaB| 6.27.12 @ 10:16AM
Amen.
Occam's Tool| 6.27.12 @ 10:39AM
"When Harry Met Sally" was one of the best writing and character driven movies of the last 30 years. Her politics will be interred with her bones.
Cpm| 6.27.12 @ 12:24PM
You could always watch a Nora Ephron and count on at least one suckerpunch against Republicans thrown in for yuks.
Tom Kyba| 6.27.12 @ 1:25PM
I must admit I am a sucker for both "Sleepless" and "You've Got Mail". Maybe because Meg Ryan had yet to start looking like the evil clown in "IT".
astorian| 6.27.12 @ 3:19PM
Interestingly, Ephron was married to journalist Nicholas Pileggi, who chronicled the career of mobster Henry Hill in "Wiseguy." Ephron sat in on some of Pileggi's interviews with Hill, and heard about Hill's criminal escapades while in the Witness Relocation program, and used those escapades as the basis for a comedy screenplay.
Which means that the gritty crime drama "Goodfellas" was, in a way, a prequel to the silly Steve Martin comedy "My Blue Heaven."