Nora Ephron

• 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)
• LOS ANGELES—Before Nancy Meyers, before Sofia Coppola, before Julie Delpy and Kasi Lemmons and Nicole Holofcener, there was Nora Ephron. She was a rare woman writing and directing in what was (and still is) the male-dominated industry of filmmaking.
(San Jose Mercury News)
• The illness that claimed the life of Nora Ephron is an uncommon type of leukemia for which there are few treatments, medical experts said. The disease, acute myeloid leukemia, accounts for only about 1 percent of deaths from cancer in this country.
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Actress Rita Wilson has opened up about her memories of close friend Nora Ephron, revealing she often took trips with the late screenwriter and director and once lived in her apartment after her family home suffered flood damage.
(Rita Wilson Recalls Personal Memories Of Best Friend Nora Ephron - Contactmusic.com)
• In her final years, Nora Ephron happened to notice a promising young writer named Lena Dunham.
(Huffington Post)
• NEW YORK (AP) — A producer of Nora Ephrons new play, Lucky Guy, says he is committed to getting her biography of a newspaper columnist on a Broadway stage despite the death this week of the playwright.
(US News and World Report)
• Producer and former HBO Films president Colin Callender confirms his ongoing commitment to bringing the late writers bioplay about Mike McAlary to the stage.
(Hollywood Reporter)
• Nora Ephron, who cast an acerbic eye on relationships, metropolitan living and aging in essays, books, plays and hit movies including Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally and Julie Julia, died Tuesday in New York. She was 71.
(Los Angeles Times)
• The Pioneer Press John Brewer reported this week on a disturbing trend: pedestrian suicide. Since October, the Minnesota State Patrol has responded to seven incidents of people dying after walking into traffic.
(Pioneer Press)