Word: ephron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder how calculating some movie studies are. Take the movie Heartburn, with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson, two of the most acclaimed actors today. Mike Nichols, one of the eighties' hottest directors, controlled the process; and the screenplay was taken from a best-selling roman a clef by Nora Ephron, the former wife of big-shot Washington journalist Carl Bernstein. Hmmmm. Yeah, you know the producers were dreaming of a blockbuster and nine Academy awards from the moment they started shooting. With all that build-up, you've got to be disappointed...
...stick with you for the rest of your life; it is not a Casablanca of the eighties. But Heartburn is definitely one of the best dramatic movies of the year and to miss it would mean foregoing a chance to see Meryl Streep become Rachel, a woman based on Ephron herself...
...really wonderful and exciting to see old friends and to see who they married and what their kids look like," said Ephron Catlin...
Writer Nora Ephron is two for eight on the big screen. The first success was Silkwood, which she co-wrote with Alice Arlen. Now a second Ephron script is being produced: Heartburn, based on her own best seller, which leaves her twelve movies behind her parents, Phoebe and Henry Ephron (Desk Set, Carousel). "For me to get 14 films made," says Ephron, "at my current rate of about one in four, I'd have to write 56 scripts and live to be 132. When they show the name of the studio at the beginning of a film, it should...
...system. Before making it big with Breaking Away, Steve Tesich, 42, wrote six scripts that missed. To deal with the rejection, he would start a new script before sending a finished one in. "That way I could rationalize that the really good script was in the typewriter," he notes. Ephron says she tries to salvage some of her old scripts. "I keep moving my favorite jokes from one movie to another in hopes that someone will finally get to say them...