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HBO Is Working on a Nora Ephron Documentary
It's titled Everything Is Copy — an Ephron maxim handed down from her mother — and it will be co-directed by Jacob Bernstein, her son. Now's a good time to read Bernstein's New York Times Magazine tribute to Ephron, if you haven't already.
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Theater Review: On Lucky Guy and Nora Ephron's Love for Newsrooms
In an essay called “Journalism: A Love Story” from her 2010 collection I Remember Nothing, Nora Ephron described working as a “clipper” for Newsweek shortly after college. Along with the other young women—it was a girls-only position—she cut thousands of articles from the nation’s papers and routed them to the
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Your Sunday Long Reads: Nora Ephron's Last Years and Disney's Star Wars Buy
It's Sunday afternoon — your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations: "Nora Ephron's Final Act" by Jacob Bernstein (The New York Times Magazine): Ephron's son
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Read Nora Ephron’s Son on Lucky Guy, Pineapple Milk Shakes, and His Mother’s Death
Jacob Bernstein, the older son of the late Nora Ephron and a regular contributor to the New York Times, has a long, loving piece in this week's Times Magazine about his mother's final days. It is worth your time.
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Tom Hanks All Set to Make His Broadway Debut
Tom Hanks has officially signed to make his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, the play Nora Ephron was writing when she died. He'll play Daily News columnist Mike McAlary, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his columns about police brutality and later died at age 41. Hanks had
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A When Harry Met Sally–Inception Mash-up? Yes, Please!
Christopher Nolan and Nora Ephron had a very funny baby!
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Your Sunday Long Reads: Remembering Nora Ephron, the Band, and Louis C.K.'s Lost Projects
It's Sunday afternoon, or: your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations: "Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor" by Charles McGrath (New York Times):
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Watch the Week’s Best Viral Videos
In between our reading every think piece possible about the late, beloved Nora Ephron, we still somehow made room in our brains to soak up the week’s best viral videos making the rounds — because you can't keep a good Internet down. This week, Seth Rogen had a giggle fit,
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Mindy Kaling Walked Us Through You’ve Got Mail
If you're constructing your shrine to Nora Ephron today or are rewatching You've Got Mail for any number of other valid reasons, revisit the time YGM superfan Mindy Kaling walked Vulture through her favorite parts of the film. "You've Got Mail is the most soul-mate-y of soul-mate movies," she said
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Visit the Ancient Website for You’ve Got Mail
Untouched since 1998, the archaic website proves Nora Ephron still has the power to make you laugh.
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Nora Ephron, 1941-2012
I’m not used to having my heart broken by Nora Ephron. Her movies always promised a happy ending. The Empire State Building lights up for Meg Ryan, or Auld Lang Sang turns into a love song, or the right dog comes bounding through Riverside Park, followed by the right owner.
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Five Great Nora Ephron Movie Scenes
Nora Ephron's mark on the modern romantic comedy can't be overstated. When Harry Met Sally is arguably the greatest romcom of all time -- though Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail have their supporters, too. Ephron's comic heroines posssess an optimism and sense of purpose that hold up long
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Tom Hanks Circling Nora Ephron Broadway Play
Quick, someone's making a run for the EGOT! The New York Times reports that Tom Hanks is in negotiations to star in Nora Ephron's play Lucky Guy, which would mark his Broadway debut. If Hanks signs on, he'd play crime-covering Daily News columnist Mike McAlary, who died at age 41
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Nora Ephron Making a Movie That Has Something to Do With Pride and Prejudice
Nora Ephron has signed on to write and direct Lost in Austen, about a contemporary woman and Jane Austen fan who winds up smack in the middle of Pride and Prejudice, inadvertently cockblocking Elizabeth Bennet. So, pretty much, the perfect Nora Ephron project. Show More Summary
Is Tina Fey’s Book Bossypants a Memoir or Not?
The reviews are in for Tina Fey's Bossypants, and they're generally positive, with a few veering into glowing-like-a-supernova territory. Several compare Fey to Nora Ephron, and nearly all mention Sarah Palin, but there seems to be one...Show More Summary
Vulture Watches You’ve Got Mail With Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling — best known for her work on NBC's The Office (as writer, producer, director, and actor) — has a humble dream: to write the definitive romantic comedy for her generation. Her favorite is You’ve Got Mail, Nora Ephron's 1998 classic about Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan finding love on the Internet — or AOL, as the Internet was called in 1998. Show More Summary
Scandinavian Names All Sound the Same to Nora Ephron
There are a number of things about Stieg Larsson's Girl With the Dragon Tattoo books that drive Nora Ephron crazy, or so we deduce from her satire of the series in this week's New Yorker. Among the crazy-makers: Lisbeth Salander always...Show More Summary
Morning Joe: Nora Ephron–Approved Romantic Comedy
This weekend, the Times dissected the "morning-news-romcom-vérité" that is MSNBC's Morning Joe, thanks to the banter-filled dynamic between hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Proving just how convincing a romantic comedy the program really is, reigning rom-com auteur Nora Ephron is a fan. Show More Summary
Nora Ephron Won't Pretend to Be Happy About Julie & Julia's Golden Globes loss
There are two accepted rules for movie-award nominees: 1) Look gracious if someone else's name is called, and 2) Always pretend you didn't even think to write a speech. But if Mixed Nuts taught us anything, it's that Nora Ephron doesn't...Show More Summary
Glee’s Jane Lynch on Love, Loss, and What I Wore and Her Final Episode of Party Down
Last week, the incomparable Jane Lynch took a break from playing the hypercompetitive cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on Glee to make her New York theater debut, filling the role vacated by Katie Finneran in Nora Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Show More Summary