Word: ephron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writer and filmmaker, Nora Ephron, who also did "Sally," desperately needs a new idea. This movie even ends in a very familiar way. In New York City. With a love song playing. And a long climb to the top of some building. By the time Ryan gets to top of the Empire State (to hook up with Hanks), there's only one question left: Where's Billy Crystal...
...this part of some diabolical conspiracy to reduce women to the sum of their private parts? No; the surface reason is simpler. "It's economics," says writer-director Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally . . ., This Is My Life). "Movies cost more than ever. What studios look for when they sink $20 million into a movie is some way to get their money back. So they put one of 12 male stars...
...Obst. "The women's audience doesn't -- not in bulk. And you need that bulk business for a picture to be widely released." In industry lingo, hit films can be classified by gender: action movies (Batman Returns) have immediate muscle; women's pictures (The Bodyguard) have long legs. As Ephron notes, "Teenage boys are driving the business because they'll go early and go back again. That's why it's easier to get a movie made about a man with a hangnail than a woman with a truly interesting problem...
...A.C.L.U., it considers the bill a dangerous threat to the First Amendment. So does an Ad Hoc Committee of Feminists for Free Expression, whose members include such noted writers as Betty Friedan, Nora Ephron and Erica Jong. In a Valentine's Day letter to the Judiciary Committee, the group argued that S 1521 is a "logical and legal muddle" that "scapegoats speech as a substitute for action against violence" and "reinforces the 'porn made me do it' excuse for rapists and batterers...
THIS IS MY LIFE. "And my mother wants to be a stand-up comic." In Nora Ephron's adorable yet unsentimental comedy, Dottie Ingels (Julie Kavner) is an up-to-date Stella Dallas: an Everymom whose greatest responsibility is to live for herself...