Nora Ephron, 1941 - 2012
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Born: 19 May 1941, New York City
Died: 26 June 2012, New York City
Nora Ephron's parents were both screen writers. The family moved to Beverly Hills in 1945 and Nora graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1958. While at Wellesley she was an intern in the Kennedy White House, her mother made Nora into a character in a play and movie, Take Her, She's Mine, Nora graduated in 1962. During a newspaper strike that year she contributed parodies of The New York Post to a strike paper, the Post was impressed by the effort and she worked there for five years. Nora and all three sisters became writers, she's written numerous essays but is best known for writing and directing fifteen films. Her first was Silkwood (1983), her last was Julie & Julia (2009), both of which starred her friend Meryl Streep. Her second marriage was to Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame, after the bitter separation she wrote the novel and screenplay for Heartbreak. She was able to identify Mark Felt as "Deep Throat" and routinely told anyone who asked, somehow the media didn't believe her. She was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a precursor to leukemia, several years before her death but chose to keep that private. The cancer progressed and she had been in hospital for at least two weeks when she died from pneumonia, described as a complication of acute myeloid leukemia.
Biography from Wikipedia and The New York Times obituary
Nora Ephron quotes:
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- Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. permalink
Nora Ephron - And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream. permalink
Nora Ephron - Heartburn (1983) - As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. permalink
Nora Ephron - Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. permalink
Nora Ephron - Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. permalink
Nora Ephron - Enough about that.The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not. permalink
Nora Ephron - Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook! permalink
Nora Ephron - Heartburn (1983 novel, 1986 film) - Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore. permalink
Nora Ephron - Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate? permalink
Nora Ephron - I Feel Bad About My Neck (2006) - I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out. permalink
Nora Ephron - When Harry Met Sally (1990) - I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. permalink
Nora Ephron - I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up. permalink
Nora Ephron - I Remember Nothing (2010) - I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms. permalink
Nora Ephron - I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. permalink
Nora Ephron - I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times. permalink
Nora Ephron
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