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THIS IS MY LIFE Directed by Nora Ephron...
...Phoebe Ephron produced a busy sisterhood of scribblers. Amy, the youngest, a novelist, admits, "I wasn't exactly encouraged to be a landscape painter." Only Hallie, the third daughter, has not tried her hand at fiction. (She is a computer programmer...
...with whom Nora had collaborated on When Harry Met Sally , wrote a detailed director's commentary on the shooting script of This Is My Life and gave advice on the editing. "Everyone told me how fatiguing it would be, how I should get into shape before shooting started," says Ephron. "They didn't tell me how great it would be. I couldn't wait to get back to the set. I was learning more in a week than I had learned in my whole life...
...people could say of Ephron now, at age 50, what Katharine Hepburn once said of her feminist mother -- that she managed to have it all, career, husband, family and fame. One of the themes of Heartburn the novel, Ephron's best work so far, is that no one can have it all, that life unravels faster than you can weave it back together -- another lesson she learned from her haunted mother. But if, when her movie is released, the critics attack it, that will no doubt be used in future projects to control her life at that stage...
PROFILE Instead of getting mad, Nora Ephron gets even -- with...