Word: ephron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FICTION: Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer ∙Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez Heartburn, Nora Ephron Ironweed, William Kennedy Pilgermann, Russell Hoban ∙Sister Age, M.F.K. Fisher
Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer ∙ Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Márquez Heartburn, Nora Ephron Ironweed, William Kennedy ∙ The Little Drummer Girl, John le Carré Tzili: The Story of a Life, Aharon Appelfeld
...Redford refused to entrust Goldman with his home phone number. Then, out of jealousy for co-star Dustin Hoffman's character, he demanded that Goldman write in a love interest for him; and, in what Goldman justifiably terms a "gutless betroyal," Redford allowed Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron to write a completely different draft behind Goldman's back. (P.S., Goldman's was not only the script that was used, but it also won the screenplay Oscar, a fact he neglects to mention.) If this is how Hollywood friends operate, imagine how enemies must...
Throughout, Ephron refuses to allow a note of self-pity; even her title is derisive. Humiliations are always relieved by pratfalls: Mark has been spending time on the psychiatrist's couch-unfortunately, Thelma is on it with him. Rachel's mother breathes her last, and when a nurse covers her with a sheet the old lady sits up, sings "Ta da!", checks out of the hospital and files for divorce...
...Rachel shuttles between Washington and Manhattan, she oscillates between hysteria and impartial reportage. But if she is contradictory as a character, she is consistent as an alter ego. Nora Ephron once imagined herself as a "wallflower at the orgy, . .. everyone else is having a marvelous time, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all." It was a premonitory passage. Here she is in 1983, everybody sleeping around like characters in a Restoration play, while she records the events with misery and wit. At times her comedy seems borrowed...