Word: ephron
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...MARK FELT, associate director of the FBI during Watergate, was the shadowy source known as Deep Throat. Culeman-Beckman researched the theory for a high school history class and this summer copyrighted an essay supporting it. But Carl Bernstein says he never told Jacob or his mother, screenwriter Nora Ephron, the identity of his source. Jacob was "repeating his mother's guesswork," Bernstein told the New York Post. Ephron concurs: "Carl never told me who Deep Throat was... But I always suspected it was Mark Felt." Felt, now 86, dismisses the theory. "I would have been more effective," he told...
...culture teeming with Oprah, couples counselors and John Gray seminars, all telling us that love is about hard work and accepting one another's differences, Ephron refreshingly stands out as the nation's foremost advocate of mind-meld. For her, it seems, true love exists when there is a complete compatibility of intellect and tastes, the shared belief, say, that Brooks Robinson was the best third baseman ever. Intimacy isn't something built; it is something found when just the right attractive someone enters your universe, cyber or otherwise. "What's really better," says Ephron, "than two brains falling...
...Mail, a follow-up to her successful Hanks-Ryan vehicle Sleepless in Seattle, is Ephron's ninth effort as a screenwriter and fifth as a director. Unlike many of today's young filmmakers who grew up on movies like Shampoo, Ephron, 57, was weaned on the romantic comedies of the '40s, which serve, obviously, as her inspiration. "I think edge is a highly overrated thing," she says. "No matter how hip people think they are, they definitely want to fall in love...
...Beverly Hills native and the oldest daughter of screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron, the filmmaker attended Wellesley before entering a career as an East Coast journalist and, eventually, a famously bad marriage to Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein. It is not surprising, given Ephron's history, that her heroines typically have a passionate connection to words. Ryan was a writer in When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless, and is a bookstore owner in Ephron's new e-mail love story. "Romantic comedies are always about words," Ephron reminds. "People hate each other because of what they say or love each other...
...Yorker for many years and now married to writer Nicholas Pileggi, Ephron maintains as sunny a view of Manhattan--You've Got Mail's blindingly lit nonvirtual setting--as she does of romance. "What people don't know about New York is that it is a series of villages," she notes. "There are many things about New York that are actually like a small town in Iowa." We didn't call her a cynic...