The Most of Nora Ephron: The ultimate anthology

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In 1975 she met Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporter famed for his part in exposing the Watergate scandal, and they married the following year. The couple turned in a script for All the President's Men, the movie based on Watergate, which, according to Robert Redford, who was to be cast as Bernstein's colleague Bob Woodward, showed Bernstein "as the great lover hopping in and out of bed" and made Woodward appear dull. The script was dropped in favour of one by William Goldman, but Ephron got a taste for screenwriting. In her 1972 essay, "A Few Words About Breasts," she writes, "I started with a 28 AA bra... An actual fitter took me into the dressing room and stood over me while I took off my blouse and tried the first one on. The little puffs stood out on my chest. 'Lean over,' said the fitter. (To this day, I am not sure what fitters in bra departments do except to tell you to lean over.)" 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. 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 ]

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. 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” Review: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' is a movie about the past that speaks to our times". Los Angeles Times. December 21, 2017 . Retrieved April 1, 2020.

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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. When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

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 ]Everyone always asks, "Was he [first husband] mad at you for writing the book?" and I have to say, "Yes, yes, he was". He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? 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]

When I asked friends and fellow writers how they felt about Ephron, the response was 100% positive. Nora Ephron let her women characters be vulnerable, but never destroyed. As she advised the graduating class of Wellesley College in 1996, "be the heroine of your own life, not the victim. Because you don't have the alibi my class had — this is one of the great achievements and mixed blessings you inherit: unlike us, you can't say nobody told you there were other options ... You won't be able to blame the deans, or the culture, or anyone else: you will have no one to blame but yourselves. Whoa!" Cookie (1989), co-written by Ephron and Arlen, was not much of a success. Directed by Susan Seidleman, it was an unfunny story of a girl (Emily Lloyd) trying to keep her mobster father ( Peter Falk) out of trouble. The New York Times reviewer called the movie "about as substantial as a weather report". She is credited as being a wedding guest in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and as a Dinner Party Guest in Husbands and Wives (1992).

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Sleepless': An Affair to Remember: Movie review: Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks shine in Nora Ephron's romantic comedy that almost makes us forget our modern-day cynicism". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved September 25, 2023. Lena Dunham's memoir Not That Kind of Girl (2014) and Steven Spielberg's film The Post (2017) are both dedicated to Ephron. [46] [47] People misunderstand her phrase everything is copy,” my boyfriend explained. “It’s really about making yourself the butt of a joke first so that other people can’t do it to you.” When writers die, it's hard to know if their work will live on. I'm always amazed at what does or doesn't last –– what seems fresh as time passes, or what takes on that dreaded sepia tint even just a year or two later.