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Writer Nora Ephron is two for eight on the big screen. The first success was Silkwood, which she co-wrote with Alice Arlen. Now a second Ephron script is being produced: Heartburn, based on her own best seller, which leaves her twelve movies behind her parents, Phoebe and Henry Ephron (Desk Set, Carousel). "For me to get 14 films made," says Ephron, "at my current rate of about one in four, I'd have to write 56 scripts and live to be 132. When they show the name of the studio at the beginning of a film, it should...
...system. Before making it big with Breaking Away, Steve Tesich, 42, wrote six scripts that missed. To deal with the rejection, he would start a new script before sending a finished one in. "That way I could rationalize that the really good script was in the typewriter," he notes. Ephron says she tries to salvage some of her old scripts. "I keep moving my favorite jokes from one movie to another in hopes that someone will finally get to say them...
...days, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Jay, and his wife Margaret were the toast of the New York-Washington social circuit. Then came Mrs. Jay's more or less public affair with Watergate Heavyweight Carl Bernstein, subsequently chronicled with gusto by his former wife Nora Ephron, 42, in the bestselling Heartburn. Now it develops that while Ephron was turning to a novel to get satisfaction, Jay was turning elsewhere. Last week, Jane Tustian, 33, live-in nanny to the three Jay children for eleven years, publicly charged that Peter is the father of her son Nicholas...
SILKWOOD Directed by Mike Nichols Screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen...
...girls' bodies. After a sexual initiation, Mortimer inquires, " 'How on earth did you manage?' 'Manage?' 'About the breasts, of course.' 'Perfectly all right.' Oliver gave a smile of satisfied achievement. 'You hardly notice them at all.' " But Nora Ephron's A Few Words About Breasts notices nothing but: "What can I tell you? If I had had them, I would have been a completely different person...