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Tom Hanks Gets Tony Nomination
The Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks earned his first Tony nomination Tuesday for his lead role in Lucky Guy, Nora Ephron's final play. The singer Cyndi Lauper also earned her first for the music and lyrics to Kinky Boots, while former Phish member Trey Anastasio earned one for the music to Hands on a Hardbody. The awards will be broadcast live on CBS June 8.
"What do you think it means if you don't like your friends?"
"It's completely normal." "Men like their friends." "We're not talking about men." Dialogue in the movie "Julie and Julia," which is playing on E! tonight. Nora Ephron's last screenplay (unless there will be posthumous works). The question in the headline is asked by the character who is a blogger by night. Show More Summary
Remembering Jean Merrill, and Her Political Children’s Books
It’s been a year when many of the people whose art shaped my childhood and young adult years, from Maurice Sendak to Nora Ephron, have shuffled off this mortal coil, but I was particularly sad to learn this weekend of the death of Jean Merrill, who wrote books that treated children as if they were [...]
Intermission
The bridge is yours. -Eight summer love songs for 2012. -How the Justice Department assigned restitution for actresses whose nude pictures were leaked. -Life lessons from Nora Ephron. -New music from Janelle Monae! -Bryan Cranston will continue to be a wonderful heavy in Total Recall:
Matthews to the late Nora Ephron: I wish I told you I liked you from the start
Let me finish tonight with Nora Ephron. Why? Because this is about us. You know...people who have dated, have dealt with the surprises, joys, troubles, heartbreaks, and downright mysteries of romantic relationships.
Nora Ephron’s Public Orgasm Was A Gift to Women
Nora Ephron’s final movie “Julie & Julia” was not only one of her best reviewed, but evidence that the veteran filmmaker successfully adjusted to Hollywood’s new business reality. [...] Some filmmakers have had a difficult time adjusting to that new reality. James L. Brooks, for instance, hasn’t worked on a movie since his 2010 flop [...]
Mourning Nora Ephron
She was never boring. In movies, novels and essays, Nora Ephron, who died yesterday at 71, had a gift for breathing life and wit into everything she touched. We met cute. On the day Lynda Bird Johnson came to work for me at McCalls in 1966, I found Ephron, a reporter for the New York [...]
Jennifer Rubin: Nora Ephron and me
In a former life I was a labor lawyer, working for Hollywood studios. And that’s where I met Nora Ephron. In the movie industry there are rules upon rules in various union contracts about credits on screen and in ads — about where they go, how big they need to be, and whose name goes before others. Show More Summary
Remembering Nora Ephron, And How Her Essays Made Her Movies Better
I called my mother on my way home from a dinner party last night to let her know that Nora Ephron had died. Or at least, if she already knew Nora Ephron had died, to reassure her that I still had her copies of Crazy Salad and Wallflower at the Orgy, books that I’d sneaked [...]
Nora Ephron 1941-2012
Writer, director Nora Ephron has died in New York City at age 71. In a comedy world woefully under-represented by women, Ephron's work found a sweet spot that was always funny without being cruel, skeptical without being cynical and life affirming when nihilism would have been s …
ROGER SIMON SAYS goodbye to Nora Ephron….
ROGER SIMON SAYS goodbye to Nora Ephron.
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RIP, Nora Ephron. Max, our hearts go out to you and your family. xoxox
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Chick Flicks For Everyone
I used to dread Saturday nights when my wife would drag me to a “chick flick.” The exception was Nora Ephron films. When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle made me both laugh and cry and Julie and Julia was a real treat. Well RIP Nora Ephron: Nora Ephron, an essayist and humorist [...]
Hilary Rosen: Nora Ephron -- We Write in Homage
I debate politics for a living and yet with Nora, it was harder. She held them to a standard that most people who love politics don't ever do. Her insight and cynicism was of the sort that when people feel like she does, they turn away. But Nora leaned in.
Goodbye to Nora Ephron.
She was 71. In the late 1960s Ms. Ephron turned to magazine journalism, at Esquire and New York mostly. She quickly made a name for herself by writing frank, funny personal essays — about the smallness of her breasts, for example — and...Show More Summary
Nora Ephron, R.I.P.
Journalist, author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron died today of acute myeloid leukemia. She was 71.To read the rest of this obituary, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Writer-director Nora Ephron dead at 71
Nora Ephron, celebrated screenwriter, director and mother of some of the best known romantic comedies, died today of leukemia.Earlier in the day, various media outlets first revealed that she was gravely ill. The New York Times cited her son, Jacob Bernstein, also a freelance rep …
Nora Ephron RIP
I’ve never seen any of her movies, but I used to pretend that I had seen Harry Met Sally and argue with people about how bad it was and what a rip-off it was of “Manhattan”. I wanted to see it, but I just can’t take Billy Crystal or Meg Ryan, and Harry Connick is [...]
Screenwriter Nora Ephron Dies
Nora Ephron, an essayist and humorist who became one of her era's most successful screenwriters and filmmakers, making romantic comedy hits like Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally and Heartburn, died Tuesday night in Manhattan. She was 71. The cause was pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia, her son Jacob Bernstein said.
Romcom icon Nora Ephron dead at 71
Nora Ephron, celebrated screenwriter, director and mother of some of the best known romantic comedies, died today of leukemia.Earlier in the day, various media outlets first revealed that she was gravely ill. The New York Times cited her son, Jacob Bernstein, also a freelance rep …