Nora Ephron, the director of films like “Julie & Julia” and “When Harry Met Sally,” is now to be the subject of a film.The Hollywood Reporter writes that the late Ephron’s son, Jacob Bernstein, is developing and will co-direct “Everything is Copy,” a documentary named after an Ephron family truism. (The phrase allowed for Ephron writing numerous widely-read personal essays and lightly fictionalized novels about everything from her neck to her divorce.)Bernstein, a journalist had previously written a piece, for the New York Times Magazine, on his mother’s illness and surprising death at 71. Ephron has been in the news lately for the current Broadway production of her final play, “Lucky Guy.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Jill Brooke: Nora Ephron Taught Us How to Live and Die
In reflecting on all the people who passed away this year, I am thinking of Nora Ephron and how this witty, wise and loving woman taught us not only how to live but also how to die.Read More…
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Nora Ephron, Remembered In Her Holiday Scenes (MASHUP)
In Nora Ephron’s 1998 film “You’ve Got Mail,” Kathleen Kelly, the protagonist, describes decorating her Christmas tree and missing her mother “so much I almost couldn’t breathe.”We felt that way about Nora Ephron the day she died, and we’ve missed her since. The numerous tributes to the beloved writer, screenwriter and director since her death on June 26, 2012 show how many lives she touched — from those who gathered around her dinner table to members of the HuffPost family, from Lena Dunham, whose New Yorker essay on Nora was one of our favorite pieces of writing published in 2012, to women around the world who watched her movies and recognized that Nora understood women. She wrote female characters who were imperfect and smart and worried and hardworking and exuberant and frustrated and funny, and they got the guy usually because they were multifaceted and imperfect.Read More…
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