Almost three years ago, Jacob Bernstein announced his plans to make a documentary about his late mother, Nora Ephron. In a quick blog at the time, I wrote that it would “make all of us cry.” After seeing it this past Tuesday, I can report that my prediction was correct.
I’m not particularly proud of the fact that I’ve watched this Sesame Street parody of When Harry Met Sally twice, but I’m more than a little impressed by how spot-on the Meg Ryan character’s wigs are.
Well, well, they're both writers now, and everyone's mind is valuable no matter what's in it, or whatever the all-flattening faux-populist ontological miasma is whispering in our ears these days. Anyway, a tiny troll who lives under the conference table at the Wall Street Journal offices has given famous sibling…
The dream of the 1790s is alive in Meryton.
While Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen has spent much of his time as of late offending people, perhaps he's found an opportunity to redeem himself. Described by the New York Post as Nora Ephron's "longtime friend," Cohen has apparently been given the blessing from her family to write the biography of her life.…
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the creation of the Nora Ephron Prize, which awards $25,000 to a female writer or director whose film is making its debut at the festival, and "who embodies the spirit and vision of the legendary filmmaker and writer."
While she's been a lightning rod for claims of both feminism and anti-feminism (particularly since announcing her Mrs. Carter World Tour), Beyoncé has tended in the past to steer clear of the F-word that's put so many female celebrities in the hot seat. Until now, at least. Bey tells Vogue UK in a cover interview for…
Happy last-Dirt-Bag-of-the-year!!! Let's talk about death. There's no rhyme or reason—or significance, really—to grouping people together based on the year in which they died. It's pretty arbitrary, if you think about it. Tony Scott's suicide doesn't have anything to do with Michael Clarke Duncan's heart disease. But…
It's become fashionable to say that your favorite holiday is Thanksgiving, and every so often I say those words. What I mean is that Thanksgiving is a holiday that's entirely about food. The glorious turkey. The stuffing your mother used to make. And pies, pies, pies. When you say your favorite holiday is…
I swore I wasn't going to lead with any Tomkat news today (because oops my brain liquefied from boredom and dripped out my ear all gross), but then the other celebrities had to go and be HELLA UNEVENTFUL. Blame all non-Tomkat celebrities, not me. Anyway, an ex-Scientologist lady told E! that Tom Cruise is "viewed as a…
When it comes to his characters, Aaron Sorkin is best known for creating a collection great white males—and he doesn't seem to be the biggest supporter of ladies in general. That is what makes it all the more unusual, then, that Nora Ephron, who was both great at writing women and championing them in real life,…
In December 1972 at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Nora Ephron took part in a discussion called "Women Writers: Has Anything Changed?" (ha, still not nearly enough to stop having panels in 2012 about whether anything's changed) with novelist Elizabeth Janeway and poet Carolyn Kizer, moderated by literary critic Helen…
George Clooney, Stacy Keibler, Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston shared a private jet—the Glitter Person version of splitting a cab—in Switzerland. Were this an NYU freshman playwright's hastily-penned one-act, they would experience some turbulence and blurt out their long-held secrets, resentments and desires for…
Nora Ephron was an inspiration to actors, directors, writers, musicians and normals alike, so it's no surprise that news of her death hit so many so hard. The outpouring of love sent her way on Twitter was particularly great with everyone from Steve Martin to Jean Grae to Judy Blume to Bret Easton Ellis tweeting out…
News of Nora Ephron's death late last night, of complications arising from leukemia, came to be public in a most curious way. The story was broken Tuesday afternoon by the gossip writer Liz Smith on the Web site wowOwow. Smith, a longtime friend of Ephron, hadn't gotten the family's permission to write about her…
Louis CK, continuing to carve out a niche for himself as Sort Of Genius/the Lethargic Husky Dream Man of men and women across the nation with dark senses of humor and minor clinical depression, was on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night fielding questions about his choice to cast a black woman (after valiantly Googling, it…
There were so many amazing things about Nora Ephron—she was a gifted writer, a talented filmmaker, a funny feminist, and by all accounts a wonderful friend. We're going to miss all of her wry insights, but as Nora herself taught us, the best way to make yourself feel better when you're down is by watching a classic…
Nora Ephron, the writer/director/producer responsible for When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, and Julie and Julia (among others) has died. A source tells us that Ephron, 71, was suffering from an unspecified form of blood cancer. Speculation consumed the internet after Wowowow prematurely…
Before Jenna releases us all to the wilds of this still-holiday-ish weekend, here are a few motley dribs and drabs and odds and ends. Consider this a delicious sandwich made from the leftovers of a cornucopia of Thanksgiving delights!
The Huffington Post's new Divorce channel — helmed by Nora Ephron — paints a bright and shiny view of the end of marriage.
