Saturday, June 30, 2012

Nora Ephron

  • SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2012 — Nora Ephron was the most famous person I ever knew – before she got famous. We started work at the New York Post at the same time in 1963, where we both wrote features and celebrity profiles.
  • (Washington Times)
  • The writer-director Nora Ephron, who died Tuesday at 71 from complications of leukemia, is already being lauded as a glorious throwback to many traditions. The brittle, mordant wit of Dorothy Parker in the 1930s. The New Journalism of the 1960s.
  • (The Boston Globe)
  • Lunch was at Balthazar, where all the waiters knew her. As soon as we sat down, she pulled out my entire blog, printed out on pink paper, a tower of it more than a foot tall, and slashed with highlighter.
  • (The Guardian)
  • Nora Ephron, who entertained people nationwide with her humorous essays and films, died at 71 Tuesday from pneumonia caused by acute myeloid leukemia. Her memory is kept alive by her fans around the world, including those in Charleston.
  • (The Post and Courier)
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  • (AlterNet)
  • Nora Ephron, who died Tuesday at age 71, was the link between different worlds, and different eras, on and off the screen.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • In the aftermath of Nora Ephrons passing, on Wednesday Piers Morgan welcomed two of her closest friends – Barbara Walters and Arianna Huffington – to share their memories of the acclaimed screenwriter.
  • (CNN)
  • There was something mysterious and unsettling about Nora Ephron and the way she could channel the most important moments of my life into her work without ever having met me. That was her gift, being hardwired into the spirit of her audience.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • I never met Nora Ephron, but she was precisely my age and I read all of her books as bulletins from an extended womens college alumnae magazine, guidelines to inventing la vida feminista in the face of divorce, disillusion, and decay.
  • (The Guardian)
  • Nora Ephron, who died this week of complications from leukemia, knew the formula. She learned it from her parents. The journalist, screenwriter, essayist, playwright and director grew up writing in a family of writers.
  • (Chicago Tribune)

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