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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Allstar/Cinetext Nora Ephron , who died on Tuesday at 71, was an age weirdly both far too young and far older than the one I had in my head. I didn't know her well, but, when we did meet, I found myself most often gobsmacked by a one-two combo of...
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The Daily Herald
| 12 months ago
Ephron had a column in the magazine and wrote regularly about media and women. She was a feminist when that was a bold thing to be, and her work was a rebuke to those who liked to claim feminists had no sense of humor. She was already famous and...
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Popeater
| 12 months ago
Read more share this story In the most iconic scene of the most iconic movie that Nora Ephron ever wrote, a perky young woman named Sally (Meg Ryan) moans her way through simulated ecstasy, right there in Katz's Deli, to prove a point to her friend...
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NY Daily News
| 12 months ago
In addition to writing some of cinema's most iconic movie scenes -- think Meg Ryan faking an orgasm in a busy New York deli and biting into a post-coital sandwich afterwards -- the late filmmaker Nora Ephron also wrote a self-published cookbook.
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Colin Callender said he could "think of no more fitting tribute to her extraordinary writing and remarkable body of work". The play tells the true story of US reporter Mike McAlary, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his expose of police brutality...
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Popeater
| 12 months ago
Read more share this story I had the pleasure of knowing Nora Ephron. I am saddened but also celebrating Nora, so I wanted to share. Once I asked Nora about her experience at Huff Post and she said, "Before I can finish my thoughts, Arianna has a...
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Vanity Fair
| 12 months ago
One of Nora Ephron's final creative projects was Lucky Guy , her play about the late reporter Mike McAlary, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the attack by New York City police on Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant. Following a reading of...
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Courier & Press
| 12 months ago
When I was very young, a friend told me about a book called "Heartburn" by Nora Ephron. Although I was not in the mood to read a book, I decided I would give it a try. The semi-autobiographical novel was loosely based on her real-life marriage to...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
Don't you dare steal dying from me! she might have rebuked us, at the same time acknowledging proudly that she, along with her more neurasthenic but equally disciplined fellow traveller, the writer Joan Didion, did more than any other women writers...
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The New York Observer
| 12 months ago
The 5 Best Nora Ephron-y Tributes to Nora Ephron 4:50pm Nora Ephron lives on in memorial essays (Getty) When legendary author/screenwriter/feminist/Huffington Post blogger Nora Ephron passed away on Tuesday , the Internet immediately lit up with...
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The Orange County Register
| 12 months ago
A producer of Nora Ephron's new play, "Lucky Guy," says he is "committed" to getting her biography of a newspaper columnist on a Broadway stage despite the death this week of the playwright. Colin Callender said Thursday that his team "can think of...
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The Huffington Post
| 12 months ago
Nora Ephron, Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, Julie & Julia I have been a long-time fan of Nora Ephron's work, and today I would like to honor her by showcasing her words...She was wise: Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
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The Huffington Post
| 12 months ago
You were going to be a gymnast."...Don't you love how the women in Nora Ephron's films are always writing?...I find it reassuring to see Sally Albright, identified only fleetingly in When Harry Met Sally as a reporter for the News and later for New...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
40 am Librado Romero/The New York Times Nora Ephron in 1998 on her home turf, the Upper West Side. Go to related article » 6 Q's About the News Use the photo and related articles to answer basic news questions...Ephron's work ; an ArtsBeat post on...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Nora Ephron, one of the most successful screenwriters in the filmmaking industry has passed away at the age of 71. Ephron will always be remembered for all the highly praised romantic comedies she has contributed in Hollywood . All the screenplays...
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Starpulse
| 12 months ago
If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you...If you get rear-ended in a parking lot, have Meryl Streep play you...Nora Ephron uttered those words at an AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony in Streep's honor several...
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EW - PopWatch
| 12 months ago
ET What 'When Harry Met Sally...' was really about, according to Nora Ephron by Mandi Bierly Image Credit: Everett Collection In 1990, the year after When Harry Met Sally hit theaters, Nora Ephron's script was released as a paperback book with an 11-...
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Hollywood Reporter Film
| 12 months ago
PDT 6/27/2012 by David Rooney Getty Images Nora Ephron at the "Julie & Julia" premiere THR's David Rooney analyzes the legacy of the writer-director's screen work, which often traded successfully in old-fashioned romance. National news and...
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YourTango
| 12 months ago
Nora Ephron's wit will live on in these timeless, classic romantic comedies. Born on May 19, 1941, native New Yorker Nora Ephron was the oldest of four sisters, all of whom became writers though it was only she who accidentally slipped into the...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 12 months ago
Wood, Staff writer / June 27, 2012 Los Angeles Nora Ephron was talented in so many ways as journalist, playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, novelist, blogger that accolades are pouring in from across the spectrum of American culture with...
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PRWeb
| 12 months ago
June 27, 2012 On June 26, TheaterMania reported that award-winning playwright and author Nora Ephron has died in New York City at age 71 due to pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia. Ephron wrote the Broadway play "Imaginary Friends", about...
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PRWeb
| 12 months ago
Not many authors and writers could pull off what Nora Ephron has completed in her career. This rare and creative screenwriter pushed the limits and her work has left an ever lasting memory for both men and women. June 27, 2012 Nora Ephron was an...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
Story Nora Ephron For The Globe and Mail video I felt bad for women writers in general, for whom she changed everything. And I felt bad for Nora herself who, at 71, was far too young and energetic and frankly good-looking to have contracted a fatal...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
Story Nora Ephron For The Globe and Mail video In a world where people are divided between talent and press, it felt flattering to be individualized, a salutation from one of the tribe who had crossed over to the other side. Though she had already...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
Screenwriters are the hidden stars of the film world, credited only by name and seldom fully recognised for their work behind the scenes. Nora Ephron was a master of romantic comedy and one of the best screenwriters of her generation, who broke into...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
It's lucky for all of us that Nora Ephron didn't have big breasts. "If I had them," she wrote in an essay in 1972, "I would have been a completely different person." If she had them, or I suppose we must now write if she had had them, we might not...
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International Herald Tribune
| 12 months ago
Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage Nora Ephron and her husband, Nicholas Pileggi, in 1993...For women, Nora Ephron is the I Ching, the sum of all wisdom...Basically, anything worth saying about love, loss and, yes, what I wore, was said by Nora somewhere,...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Articles Smith's ambiguously worded tribute -- she spoke of Ephron in the past tense but never said for certain that she had died -- quickly caught the attention of curious fans and members of the press, making the rounds on social media before being...
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ABC 7
| 12 months ago
Ephron, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director and author, died at age 71 on Tuesday in New York after battling leukemia, a form of blood cancer...All wisdom, wit and sparkle lights, what a treat she was, what a blessing...To have created a simple...
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YourTango
| 12 months ago
Meg Ryan as the uptight college grad Sally Albright in "When Harry Met Sally." In honor of Nora Ephron's life, we celebrate her classic, 1980s romantic comedy. The Internet is abuzz with grief over the loss of American filmmaker and feminist icon...
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MamaPop
| 12 months ago
The prolific screenwritter, essayist, director, and playwright died yesterday (June 26) of leukemia at the age of 71. Ephron leaves behind credits both terrific (having written Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally just to name two) and not-...
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Vanity Fair
| 12 months ago
The first time I saw and met Ephron it was at a party for The Atlantic hosted by Mort Zuckerman (a scene I describe in Lucking Out and needn't recap here) and the last party I saw her at was one hosted by Arianna Huffington for The Nation (ditto),*...
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Vanity Fair
| 12 months ago
On Tuesday night, Nora Ephron, the writer and filmmaker whose scripts are among the most insightful and heart-warming to have appeared on-screen in recent decades, died in Manhattan from complications of leukemia...Here, we commemorate Ephron's...
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College Candy
| 12 months ago
When I first saw When Harry Met Sally, I felt like someone finally understood my life or what I wanted my life to be. When I found out that she passed away last night, I was shocked and crushed...This is a woman who once said about breasts, If I had...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Articles Ephron fashioned witty female characters with edge for both the stage and screen. The brain behind notable Hollywood classics like "When Harry met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle," Ephron made a name for herself as a creative innovator...
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CNN
| 12 months ago
Nora Ephron, the screenwriter and director whose sharp, edgy romantic comedies featuring strong women took her to the top ranks of a film industry mostly dominated by men, has died...Ephron died Tuesday surrounded by relatives at a New York hospital,...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Nora Eprhon has died of leukemia aged 71 (Reuters) Nora Ephron, the creator of iconic romances Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally, has died aged 71. Ephron blazed her own trail in Hollywood , working as an author, screenwriter and film-...
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Hollywood Reporter Film
| 12 months ago
The writer and director, who died Tuesday at 71, turned out hits like "When Harry Met Sally..." and "Sleepless in Seattle." Nora Ephron , the witty and acerbic writer who found a second career as a screenwriter and director of such popular romantic...
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The Dish Rag
| 12 months ago
As a tribute to the Oscar-nominated filmmaker and screenwriter's big-screen legacy, we've compiled five memorable scenes from some of Ephron's biggest movies. When Harry Met Sally..." (1989): Meg Ryan fakes it for costar Billy Crystal in the...
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Al Jazeera English
| 12 months ago
10 Ephron, left, worked with her friend Meryl Streep, right, on her last film, "Julia and Julia" in 2009 [Reuters] Oscar-nominated screenwriter Nora Ephron, known for romantic comedies "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle", has died in...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 12 months ago
A spokeswoman for her agency, Los Angeles-based Creative Artists Agency, declined to comment on the reports. Nicholas Latimer, a spokesman at publishing company Random House, told Reuters Ephron was gravely ill. He could not confirm reports that she...
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National Public Radio
| 12 months ago
Nora Ephron, the celebrated author and filmmaker behind such hits as Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally has died...The cause was pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia, her son Jacob Bernstein told The New York Times on Tuesday...
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The Age
| 12 months ago
AP Oscar-nominated screenwriter Nora Ephron, known for romantic comedies When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle , has died in New York at age 71 after battling leukemia, according to media reports. The New York Times cited her son, Jacob...
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Daily Mail
| 12 months ago
Nora Ephron, the writer of iconic movies When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail, has died at the age of 71. The author and screenwriter had fought a six-year battle with leukemia and finally succumbed to the disease. This...
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E! Online
| 12 months ago
Ephron moved into household-name territory with the 1989 Rob Reiner -director When Harry Met Sally ... Ephron took credit for the hit's central thesiscan a man and woman be just friends?but not for its most famous line. ( Billy Crystal was said to...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
The Washington Post was the first to report Ephron's death following some confusion this afternoon about the status of her health. She died of complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia, according to the Post . Born in New York and raised...
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The Dish Rag
| 12 months ago
On Tuesday, June 26, a rep for Nora Ephron confirmed that the leukemia-stricken author was gravely ill and not expected to make it through the night...Her husband, writer Nicholas Pileggi, and two sons Jacob and Max Bernstein from a previous marriage,...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
Author, director and screenwriter Nora Ephron, whose films include "Sleepless in Seattle," "You've Got Mail" and "When Harry Met Sally" and whose dry writing sliced and diced such topics as errant husbands and aging gracefully, died Tuesday in a New...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
US newspaper columnist and friend of the director Liz Smith has told television network ABC that Ephron's funeral is already planned. The 71-year-old has won numerous awards for her work and received three Oscar nominations for her films: Silkwood ,...
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People
| 12 months ago
Breaking News Nora Ephron, Writer-Director of Sleepless in Seattle , Dies at Age 71 Tuesday June 26, 2012 08:10 PM EDT Nora Ephron, one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood as the creative force behind such blockbusters as You've Got Mail ,...
