Word: nora
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When Nora went to Wellesley, she and her disintegrating mother exchanged bantering letters that the mother turned into a hit play, Take Her, She's Mine, holding off the dark for a while with Broadway glitter. The family's appropriation of one another's lives in print looks like exploitation; but it was more an attempt to contain one's life, as it spun out of control, by telling it as a story. When Nora took personal troubles to her, Phoebe would say, "It's all copy," a lesson repeatedly preached by Kavner to her children in This...
...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 out." But when she did eventually start writing magazine articles, Nora's only criticism was that she quoted too many other people. "What do you think? Never write without knowing what you think," Nora told her. "That," says Delia, "is just what Mother would have said...
...Nora began her directing career as she did her reporting days at the Post, tapping her circle of influential friends. She interviewed successful directors for practical advice -- Nichols, Sidney Lumet, Alan Pakula, Rob Reiner. Reiner, 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...
Pileggi says she had total control of the process, down to what food was being served by the commissary. "It's all like one big typewriter for her." He sees a pattern in the way Nora circled back, almost despite herself, to the life she had fled. "She certainly had no grand career plan to do this. Her grand career plan is usually how to get all the ingredients together for next Thursday's dinner party...
PROFILE Instead of getting mad, Nora Ephron gets even -- with...