Nora Ephron Dead at 71
Source: Slate
Nora Ephron, the American author, director and Oscar-nominated screenwriter best known for a string of iconic romantic comedies, died Tuesday evening at the age of 71, the Washington Post and CBS News report.
The exact cause of her death was not immediately clear, although reports earlier in the day suggested she was battling leukemia.
Ephron was, in the words of the Post, "one of America's warmest and most acute chroniclers of contemporary culture and society," someone who was known since her earliest years as a journalist and essayist "for a keen cultural barometer, channeling her interest in the zeitgiest to the screen, the page and the theater."
She was nominated for the Academy Award for original screenplay three times: Silkwood, which lost out to Tender Mercies at the 1984 awards ceremony; When Harry Met Sally..., which lost to Dead Poets Society in 1990; and Sleepless in Seattle, which was defeated by The Piano in 1994.* She earned her most recent movie credit in 2009 with Julie & Julia, which starred Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.
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DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)RIP, Nora.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Siwsan
(26,336 posts)The world has lost another great one. Peace, Nora.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)JitterbugPerfume
(18,183 posts)pacalo
(24,722 posts)From "Heartburn":
BeyondGeography
(39,399 posts)Rest well.
CTyankee
(63,932 posts)Every time I see his fat ass on Morning Joe I am disgusted and mute him.
I feel like she and I moved through the same eras together, living out that fraught time for women on the cusp, realizing our strength and trying very hard. And it was hard. She knew that. I knew that.
This is a tough loss. I am undone...
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Very literary, cinematic.
Well done.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)repeat her blurb in Heartburn..about the butter
How men ask "where's the butter" and she thinks "the same place it always is, in that
little flap door container on the refigerator door. Her premise was that men know
where some things are - but chose to involve women - to exert control and make you
get up and show them where the butter is.
Wow, looking her biog up, didn't realize she wrote Silkwood.
Swamp Lover
(431 posts)I bet I'll spoend the whole party telling people who I am....
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Swamp Lover
(431 posts)Paladin
(28,290 posts)nolabear
(42,009 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,479 posts)Loved "When Harry Met Sally," of course. "Bewitched" - ugh. But, RIP and thanks, Nora.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)After the success of "Silkwood" the idea of a female writer being a monetary success took hold in Hollywood.
tpsbmam
(3,927 posts)So sad -- enormous talent & such a powerful woman's voice/example.....I remember first encountering her work eons ago and learning about her and feeling that she opened up my world of possibilities. RIP, Nora -- what an incredible 71 years!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)with Tucci....she seemed just fine.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I doubt he did...he was the sort of 70's guy who felt entitled to cheat on his wife anytime he damn well felt like it...but it would have been the slightly decent thing.
He should get a 21 Key Lime Pie salute tonight.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)she might have still been stuck with him.
Who is to say he wouldn't have undermined her writing and directing, if he decided that she was upstaging him and his ego.
She was well rid of him, and Heartburn was a great read.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)He'd have achieved the same thing, though, just by asking for a divorce in the first place.
Also, I'm not sure that Nora had to go through all that just to be able to right.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Gone too soon.
lindac007
(55 posts)I saw her in Minneapolis when her book "I Feel Bad About My Neck" came out. She autographed my copy for me and we actually sat across from her and her assistant at the diner near the theater. She looked spectacular and I thought she was amazing. I am very sad tonight.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)or books, or plays. What a great talent. She was funny. One of the best ever.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Her books, her writings, her movies - we lost an immense talent today.