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...Carousel. He would be, she thought, just the guy to offer sex, schmoozing and comic relief, between babies. Oh, yes, and they were famous, at least in the emerald ghettos of Manhattan and Georgetown. For Heartburn was a smart, tattling novel pretty much about its author, the saucy wit Nora Ephron, and her second husband, Watergate Wonder Boy Carl Bernstein...
...wonder how calculating some movie studies are. Take the movie Heartburn, with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson, two of the most acclaimed actors today. Mike Nichols, one of the eighties' hottest directors, controlled the process; and the screenplay was taken from a best-selling roman a clef by Nora Ephron, the former wife of big-shot Washington journalist Carl Bernstein. Hmmmm. Yeah, you know the producers were dreaming of a blockbuster and nine Academy awards from the moment they started shooting. With all that build-up, you've got to be disappointed...
...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...
...woman named Nora Eldoc, operating under a West German cover, apparently managed to get close to Mengele; she was subsequently found dead. Five years later, a former Paraguayan policeman working for the Israelis expressed confidence that he had tracked down the Nazi runaway; he disappeared, never to be seen again...
...Nora Astorga, Nicaragua's nominee for Ambassador to the U.S. [WORLD, April 2], may indeed be a dreadful dragon lady. On the other hand, having made the decision that war was necessary to eliminate a greater evil in her country, Astorga may have demonstrated considerable moral and patriotic responsibility by luring General Reinaldo Pérez-Vega to her room and then killing...