Nora Ephron: A note of regret behind the sharp wit - SFGate.
From her Academy Award—nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific.Posts about Nicholas Pileggi written by Minkoff Minx and bostonboomer.Posts about Mike Nichols written by shauncostello. Shaun Costello's Blog Short stories and essays by Shaun Costello,. It was about Nora Ephron. It was about Nora’s relationship with her sister Delia. It was about a perfect marriage, not necessarily about Paul and Julia Child, but, after two failures, about the perfect marriage Nora found.
Nora Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a cold, hard, hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten.Filled with insights and observations that instantly ring true - and could have come.Streep plays a thinly disguised version of Ephron in the caustic Heartburn (1986), also directed by Nichols, about the breakdown of her marriage destroyed by the infidelity of her husband, played by Jack Nicholson.It was based on Ephron’s 1983 novel of the same name, a comic chronicle of her marriage to Bernstein, which ended in 1980 after he had a series of affairs.
Debut movie as a Composer for Carly Simon, who went on to compose the scores for other Meryl Streep, Nora Ephron, and Mike Nichols movies, such as This Is My Life (1992) (Ephron) and Postcards from the Edge (1990) (Streep, Nichols).
