The Most of Nora Ephron

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Meh. Most of this was written around 2005 - 2007, and it's mostly just rantings about Bush and Watergate. My least favorite section by far; I skimmed it because of that, and also because it was repetitive. Another cornerstone for the 3-star rating. As a high school student, Ephron dreamed of going to New York City to become another Dorothy Parker, an American poet, writer, satirist, and critic. [13] Ephron has cited her high school journalism teacher, Charles Simms, as the inspiration for her pursuit of a career in journalism. [11] She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1958, and from Wellesley College in Massachusetts in 1962 with a degree in political science. [9] Career [ edit ] Early work [ edit ] Published in 1970, Wallflower at the Orgy is a collection of magazine articles that offer a hilarious, provocative, and revealing look at America’s passions, pastimes, and shortcomings. Some if it wasn't so much for me. Many of the journal articles were written in the 70's about famous folks who aren't so famous anymore.

Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.After Ephron's marriage with Bernstein ended, Ephron revealed Deep Throat's identity to her son Jacob and anyone else who asked. She once said, "I would give speeches to 500 people and someone would say, 'Do you know who Deep Throat is?' And I would say, 'It's Mark Felt.'" [10] Classmates of Jacob at the Dalton School and Vassar College recall him revealing to numerous people that Felt was Deep Throat. This revelation attracted little media attention despite Deep Throat's identity being publicly unknown. Ephron said, "No one, apart from my sons, believed me." [39] Ephron was invited by Arianna Huffington to write about the experience in The Huffington Post, for which Ephron was a regular blogger and part-time editor. [38] Death and legacy [ edit ] Think of The Most of Nora Ephron as a big book of everything you already love about the acute author, bound together into one tome begging to be dog-eared. Oprah Magazine I cried. It was great. Also, I didn't know that Betty Freidan became such a fractious and narrow-minded figure in her later years. a b Bergan, Ronald (June 27, 2012). "Nora Ephron obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved March 22, 2017. But when a disgruntled reader dismisses one of my own humorous essays with, “You‘re no Nora Ephron,” I don‘t mind.

I particularly enjoyed Ephron’s magazine journalism from the 1970s, especially her articles about the dawn of the Women‘s Movement, which vividly evoke the sense of possibility, solidarity and excitement (not to mention the petty infighting and rivalries) of those early days. This compendium is split into nine healthy sections. The Journalist takes us through her newspaper years. The Advocate through her writings on the women's movement. The Profiler contains studies of eight notable women and is where Ephron the Essayist begins to emerge. The piece on Pat Loud is particularly sharp:

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When I asked friends and fellow writers how they felt about Ephron, the response was 100% positive. Though technically a screenplay published as a book, Ephron’s iconic romantic comedy captures the frustrating, awful, and funny search for love and happiness in New York. Ephron was born in New York City on May 19, 1941, to a Jewish family. [9] She was the eldest of four daughters, and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. [10] Her parents, Phoebe (née Wolkind) and Henry Ephron, were both East Coast-born playwrights and screenwriters. Her parents named her Nora after the protagonist in the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. [11] Nora's younger sisters, Delia and Amy, are also writers. Her sister Hallie Ephron is a journalist, book reviewer, and novelist who writes crime fiction. Ephron's parents based the ingenue character in the play and film version of Take Her, She's Mine on the 22-year-old Nora and her letters from college; Sandra Dee played the character based on Nora in the film version, with James Stewart portraying her father. [12] Both her parents became alcoholics during their declining years. [10]

Ephron rewrote a script for All the President's Men in the mid-1970s, along with her then husband, investigative journalist Carl Bernstein. While the script was not used, it was seen by someone who offered Ephron her first screenwriting job, for a television movie, [12] which began her screenwriting career. [19] 1980s [ edit ] Past Recipients: Crystal Award". Women in Film. Archived from the original on June 30, 2011 . Retrieved May 10, 2011.Greatest Screenplays". Writers Guild of America West. Writers Guild of America West . Retrieved July 16, 2021. a b c "BAFTA Awards Search | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023 . Retrieved August 13, 2023. After a satire in Monocle she wrote lampooning the New York Post caught the editor's eye, Ephron accepted a job at the Post, where she worked as a reporter for five years. [12] In 1966, she broke the news in the Post that Bob Dylan had married Sara Lownds in a private ceremony. [17] After becoming a successful writer, she wrote a column on women's issues for Esquire. [10] In this position, Ephron made a name for herself by writing " A Few Words About Breasts", a humorous essay about body image that "established her as the enfant terrible of the New Journalism". [18] While at Esquire, she took on subjects as wide-ranging as Dorothy Schiff, her former boss and owner of the Post; Betty Friedan, whom she chastised for pursuing a feud with Gloria Steinem; and her alma mater Wellesley, which she said had turned out "a generation of docile and unadventurous women". [12] A 1968 send-up of Women's Wear Daily that she wrote for Cosmopolitan resulted in threats of a lawsuit from WWD. [12]

As Ephron grew older, she turned her wit upon the indignities and sadnesses that come with age. It's very bittersweet, like much of her writing, and utterly relateable, like much of her writing. Beware of men who cry. It’s true that men who cry are sensitive and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.” Journalist, essayist, playwright, food writer, novelist, screenwriter, film director/producer: Nora Ephron hit paydirt in them all . . . The Most of Nora Ephron reveals a writer of rare talent in each of her chosen fields. Independent Her account of the one time JFK spoke to her (she couldn’t hear because of the helicopter he was about to get on) and her response to him (‘what?’) is so funny, I cannot stop giggling. I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some ways to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.”For the truly vengeful, the pen (or word processor) is mightier than the sword". Cosmopolitan. July 1, 1996. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007 . Retrieved August 17, 2007. Theater review: 'Love, Loss, and What I Wore' at the Geffen Playhouse". Los Angeles Times. May 14, 2010 . Retrieved January 12, 2020. In 1983, Ephron co-scripted the film Silkwood with Alice Arlen. The film, directed by Mike Nichols, starred Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood, a whistleblower at the Kerr McGee Cimarron nuclear facility who dies under suspicious circumstances. [20] Ephron and Arlen were nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1984 for Silkwood. [21]