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...then a funny thing happened to Ephron -- or one she hoped she could turn into a funny thing. After criticizing celebrity journalists, she married one of the leading celebrity journalists, Bernstein, and found out, after others knew about it, that her husband was having an affair with the British ambassador's wife...
...Ephron took her two babies to New York, where her hospitalized father kept an apartment, and began to put her life back together, writing screenplays (the thing she had sworn never to do) for some fast money, and -- in three annual work periods -- telling her story her way in the novel Heartburn. "It saved her life," Pileggi says of the book. How so? "Well, for one thing, she was broke." But there is more to it than that. The humiliation described in the novel is that she, the witty observer of other people's lives, was unaware of what...
...novel is a long comic monologue, closer to Portnoy's Complaint than to the higher-class Peyton Place that Mike Nichols made of the movie. "I have spent more sleepless nights wondering how I might have saved that movie," Ephron says. Probably she lost it the minute her first-person voice was removed from the script...
...Festival last week and will be released commercially Feb. 21. The script, which she wrote with her sister Delia, treats a comedian (Julie Kavner), caught between the conflicting demands of career and kids, who uses her daughters' lives in her routine. This kind of family cannibalism is something the Ephron sisters grew up with...
Sister Delia says, "Our mother was not the warmest person, but she established our world. I think of her as a security blanket without the warmth. She had an opinion on everything, and we ((daughters)), who are just as opinionated, did everything she told us to. The Ephron girls do not join sororities or any organized religion." Each daughter had to take two years of Latin and three years of French in high school. "God forbid we should have anything to do with science," Delia recalls. Delia grew up resisting the idea of writing altogether: "Nora had staked that...