Another keen rendering of the humorous side to life. Her final, very short book of essays. I loved her poignant style and empathy.
I have now been reading Nora Ephron for 30 years and if it weren't for her unfortunate passing a couple of years ago I'd be thrilled to read her for another 30 years. Journalist, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright....all represented here in abundance. Smart and funny, decidedly a femini...
Watching the "in memoriam" montage at the Oscars on Sunday night reminded me that I hadn't yet gotten around to writing about Nora Ephron, one of our country's great writers, who died last year.Ephron was best known as a screenwriter and has been nominated for three Oscars and won a Writers Guild...
Wince, wince. Ouch. How can I give my hero a 3? But oh, I must. I fell in love with Nora Ephron when I read her book of essays called I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. The love affair continued when I read another collection of essays called I Remember Nothing: and Ot...
I just finished “Nixonland” and needed a softer view of the early 1970s, though I don’t think that’s what I got. I believe that Ephron places herself in the tradition of Dorothy Parker, and I am so far convinced that this is deserved. However, where Parker’s era compelled her to write in a pros...
Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, “includin...
I knew Nora Ephron as a screenwriter and filmmaker, but I was unaware of her literary output until I read various obituaries following her death earlier this year. Wallflower at the Orgy is the first book of hers I have read and won't be the last.Firstly, what an awesome title. It is explained in...
Obligatory GoodReads review musical accompaniment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NboaT3...#I have mixed feelings about this movie now, even tho I loved it for years and years after it came out. (It's one of the few films I loved as a teenager but do not now own on DVD.) It's sort of like Pretty ...
In case you somehow missed it, The Best of Everything was a novel by Rona Jaffe about the lives of four, or was it five, single women in New York; it was pretty good trash, as trash goes, which is not why I am fond of it. I liked it because it seemed to me that it caught perfectly the awful essen...
I Feel Bad About My Neck What I Wish I’d KnownPeople have only one way to be. Buy, don’t rent. Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from. Don’t cover a couch with anything that isn’t more or less beige. Don’t buy anything that is 100 percent wool ...
My parents had a large group of friends, almost all of them transplanted New Yorkers who were in the business. That’s what it was known as—the business. (People who were not in the business were known as civilians.) The men were screenwriters or television writers. Their wives did nothing. They w...
What I’m going to do here is write something about Dorothy Schiff, and the reason I feel bad about it is that a few months ago, I managed to patch things up with her and now I’m going to blow it. She had been irritated with me for several years because I told the story about her and Otto Preminge...