{"id":1028,"date":"2012-06-26T22:10:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T02:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2012-06-26T22:10:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T02:10:21","slug":"very-sad-nora-ephron-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/2012\/06\/26\/very-sad-nora-ephron-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Sad: Nora Ephron dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>NORA EPHRON | 1941-2012<\/h6>\n<h1>Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor<\/h1>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/06\/27\/obituaries\/27ephron2_cnd\/27ephron2_cnd-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Jonathan Wenk\/Columbia Pictures<\/div>\n<p>Nora Ephron on the set of her 2009 film, \u201cJulie &amp; Julia,\u201d starring Ms. Streep, seated.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2012\/06\/26\/movies\/20120626-EPHRON.html\">More Photos \u00bb<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<h6>By\u00a0<a title=\"More Articles by Charles McGrath\" href=\"https:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/charles_mcgrath\/index.html\" rel=\"author\">CHARLES McGRATH<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>Published: June 26, 2012\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/27\/movies\/nora-ephron-essayist-screenwriter-and-director-dies-at-71.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;pagewanted=all#commentsContainer\">143 Comments<\/a><\/h6>\n<div data-shares=\"facebook,twitter,google,email,showall|Share,print,singlepage,reprints,ad\" data-title=\"Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/27\/movies\/nora-ephron-essayist-screenwriter-and-director-dies-at-71.html\" data-description=\"Among Ms. Ephron\u2019s best-known films were \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally,\u201d \u201cSleepless in Seattle\u201d and \u201cJulie &amp; Julia.\u201d\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li data-share=\"facebook\">FACEBOOK<\/li>\n<li data-share=\"twitter\">TWITTER<\/li>\n<li data-share=\"google\">GOOGLE+<\/li>\n<li data-share=\"email\">EMAIL<\/li>\n<li data-share=\"showall\">SHARE<\/li>\n<li data-share=\"print\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/27\/movies\/nora-ephron-essayist-screenwriter-and-director-dies-at-71.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;pagewanted=print\">PRINT<\/a><\/li>\n<li data-share=\"reprints\">REPRINTS<\/li>\n<li id=\"Frame4A\" data-share=\"ad\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/adx\/bin\/adx_click.html?type=goto&amp;opzn&amp;page=www.nytimes.com\/yr\/mo\/day&amp;pos=Frame4A&amp;sn2=72270860\/53be7632&amp;sn1=5e408b68\/7d1f76cd&amp;camp=FSL2012_ArticleTools_120x60_1787507b_nyt5&amp;ad=BEMH_120x60_May4_NoText&amp;goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efoxsearchlight%2Ecom%2Fthebestexoticmarigoldhotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/adx\/images\/ADS\/30\/06\/ad.300697\/BEMH_NP_NYTGIF_5.4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/person\/530551\/Nora-Ephron?inline=nyt-per\">Nora Ephron<\/a>, an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold (only smarter and funnier, some said) who became one of her era\u2019s most successful screenwriters and filmmakers, making romantic comedy hits like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/45166\/Sleepless-in-Seattle-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cSleepless in Seattle\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally,\u201d died Tuesday night in Manhattan. She was 71.\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h6>Multimedia<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2012\/06\/26\/movies\/20120626-EPHRON.html?ref=movies\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/06\/26\/movies\/20120626-EPHRON-slide-QUCA\/20120626-EPHRON-slide-QUCA-thumbWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"126\" border=\"0\" \/>Slide Show<\/a><\/div>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2012\/06\/26\/movies\/20120626-EPHRON.html?ref=movies\">Nora Ephron<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Related<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/27\/movies\/nora-ephrons-sharp-edges-and-sugary-success.html?ref=movies\">An Appraisal: From Sharp Edges to Sugary Success and Back<\/a>\u00a0(June 27, 2012)<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6>Times Topic:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/e\/nora_ephron\/index.html\">Nora Ephron<\/a><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"readerscomment\">\n<h3>Readers\u2019 Comments<\/h3>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>Share your thoughts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/27\/movies\/nora-ephron-essayist-screenwriter-and-director-dies-at-71.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;pagewanted=all#postcomment\" rel=\"2p\">Post a Comment \u00bb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/27\/movies\/nora-ephron-essayist-screenwriter-and-director-dies-at-71.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;pagewanted=all#comments\" rel=\"3v\">Read All Comments (143) \u00bb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nThe cause was pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia, her son Jacob Bernstein said.<br \/>\nIn a commencement address she delivered in 1996 at Wellesley College, her alma mater, Ms. Ephron recalled that women of her generation weren\u2019t expected to do much of anything. But she wound up having several careers, all of them successfully and many of them simultaneously.<br \/>\nShe was a journalist, a blogger, an essayist, a novelist, a playwright, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a movie director \u2014 a rarity in a film industry whose directorial ranks were and continue to be dominated by men. Her later box-office success included\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/174227\/You-ve-Got-Mail-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cYou\u2019ve Got Mail\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/446756\/Julie-Julia-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cJulie &amp; Julia.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0By the end of her life, though remaining remarkably youthful looking, she had even become something of a philosopher about age and its indignities.<br \/>\n\u201cWhy do people write books that say it\u2019s better to be older than to be younger?\u201d she wrote in \u201cI Feel Bad About My Neck,\u201d her 2006 best-selling collection of essays. \u201cIt\u2019s not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you\u2019re constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.\u201d<br \/>\n<a title=\"Times Topics page about Ms. Ephron\" href=\"https:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/topics\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/e\/nora_ephron\/index.html\">Nora Ephron<\/a>\u00a0was born on May 19, 1941, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the eldest of four sisters, all of whom became writers. That was no surprise; writing was the family business. Her father, Henry, and her mother, the former Phoebe Wolkind, were Hollywood screenwriters who wrote, among other films,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/8336\/Carousel-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cCarousel,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/49389\/There-s-No-Business-Like-Show-Business-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cThere\u2019s No Business Like Show Business\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/8112\/Captain-Newman-M-D-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cCaptain Newman, M.D.\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cEverything is copy,\u201d her mother once said, and she and her husband proved it by turning the college-age Nora into a character in a play, later a movie,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/112583\/Take-Her-She-s-Mine-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cTake Her, She\u2019s Mine.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0The lesson was not lost on Ms. Ephron, who seldom wrote about her own children but could make sparkling copy out of almost anything else: the wrinkles on her neck, her apartment, cabbage strudel, Teflon pans and the tastelessness of egg-white omelets.<br \/>\nShe turned her painful breakup with her second husband, the Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein, into a best-selling novel,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/21917\/Heartburn-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cHeartburn,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which she then recycled into a successful movie starring Jack Nicholson as a philandering husband and Meryl Streep as a quick-witted version of Ms. Ephron herself.<br \/>\nWhen Ms. Ephron was 4, her parents moved from New York to Beverly Hills, where she grew up, graduating from Beverly Hills High School in 1958. At Wellesley, she began writing for the school newspaper, and in the summer of 1961 she was a summer intern in the Kennedy White House. She said later that perhaps her greatest accomplishment there was rescuing the speaker of the house, Sam Rayburn, from a men\u2019s room in which he had inadvertently locked himself.\u00a0<a title=\"The essay\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/05\/18\/opinion\/all-the-president-s-girls.html\">In an essay for The New York Times in 2003<\/a>, she said she was also probably the only intern that President John F. Kennedy had never hit on.<br \/>\nAfter graduation from college in 1962, she moved to New York, a city she always adored, intent on becoming a journalist. Her first job was as a mail girl at Newsweek. (There were no mail boys, she later pointed out.) Soon she was contributing to a parody of The New York Post put out during the 1962 newspaper strike. Her piece of it earned her a tryout at The Post, where the publisher, Dorothy Schiff, remarked: \u201cIf they can parody The Post, they can write for it. Hire them.\u201d<br \/>\nMs. Ephron stayed at The Post for five years, covering stories like the Beatles, the Star of India robbery at the American Museum of Natural History, and a pair of hooded seals at the Coney Island aquarium that refused to mate.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Post was a terrible newspaper in the era I worked there,\u201d she wrote, but added that the experience taught her to write short and to write around a subject, since the kinds of people she was assigned to cover were never going to give her much interview time.<br \/>\nIn the late 1960s Ms. Ephron turned to magazine journalism, at Esquire and New York mostly. She quickly made a name for herself by writing frank, funny personal essays \u2014 about the smallness of her breasts, for example \u2014 and tart, sharply observed profiles of people like Ayn Rand, Helen Gurley Brown and the composer and best-selling poet Rod McKuen. Some of these articles were controversial. In one, she criticized Betty Friedan for conducting a \u201cthoroughly irrational\u201d feud with Gloria Steinem; in another, she discharged a withering assessment of Women\u2019s Wear Daily.<br \/>\nBut all her articles were characterized by humor and honesty, written in a clear, direct, understated style marked by an impeccable sense of when to deploy the punchline. (Many of her articles were assembled in the collections \u201cWallflower at the Orgy,\u201d \u201cCrazy Salad\u201d and \u201cScribble Scribble.\u201d)<br \/>\nMs. Ephron made as much fun of herself as of anyone else. She was labeled a practitioner of the New Journalism, with its embrace of novelistic devices in the name of reaching a deeper truth, but she always denied the connection. \u201cI am not a new journalist, whatever that is,\u201d she once wrote. \u201cI just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.\u201d<br \/>\nMs. Ephron got into the movie business more or less by accident after her marriage to Mr. Bernstein in 1976. He and Bob Woodward, his partner in the Watergate investigation, were unhappy with William Goldman\u2019s script for the movie version of their book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/1613\/All-the-President-s-Men-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cAll the President\u2019s Men,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0so Mr. Bernstein and Ms. Ephron took a stab at rewriting it. Their version was ultimately not used, but it was a useful learning experience, she later said, and it brought her to the attention of people in Hollywood.<br \/>\nHer first screenplay, written with her friend Alice Arlen, was for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/44734\/Silkwood-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cSilkwood,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0a 1983 film based on the life of Karen Silkwood, who died under suspicious circumstances while investigating abuses at a plutonium plant where she had worked. Ms. Arlen was in film school then, and Ms. Ephron had scant experience writing for anything other than the page. But Mike Nichols, who directed the movie (which starred Ms. Streep and Kurt Russell), said that the script made an immediate impression on him. He and Ms. Ephron had become friends when she visited him on the set of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/8628\/Catch-22-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cCatch-22.\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cI think that was the beginning of her openly falling in love with the movies,\u201d Mr. Nichols said in an interview, \u201cand she and Alice came along with \u2018Silkwood\u2019 when I hadn\u2019t made a movie in seven years. I couldn\u2019t find anything that grabbed me.\u201d He added: \u201cNora was so funny and so interesting that you didn\u2019t notice that she was also necessary. I think a lot of her friends and readers will feel that.\u201d<br \/>\nMs. Ephron followed \u201cSilkwood\u201d three years later with a screenplay adaptation of her own novel \u201cHeartburn,\u201d which was also directed by Mr. Nichols. But it was her script for \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally,\u201d which became a hit Rob Reiner movie in 1989 starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, that established Ms. Ephron\u2019s gift for romantic comedy and for delayed but happy endings that reconcile couples who are clearly meant for each other but don\u2019t know it.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen Harry Met Sally\u201d is probably best remembered for Ms. Ryan\u2019s table-pounding<a title=\"The scene.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F-bsf2x-aeE\">faked-orgasm scene<\/a>\u00a0with Mr. Crystal in Katz\u2019s Delicatessen on the Lower East Side, prompting a middle-aged woman (played by Mr. Reiner\u2019s mother, Estelle Reiner) sitting nearby to remark to her waiter, indelibly, \u201cI\u2019ll have what she\u2019s having.\u201d<br \/>\nThe scene wouldn\u2019t have gotten past the Hollywood censors of the past, but in many other respects Ms. Ephron\u2019s films are old-fashioned movies, only in a brand-new guise. Her 1998 hit, \u201cYou\u2019ve Got Mail,\u201d for example, which she both wrote (with her sister Delia) and directed, is partly a remake of the old Ernst Lubitsch film \u2018The Shop Around the Corner.\u201d<br \/>\nMs. Ephron began directing because she knew from her parents\u2019 example how powerless screenwriters are (at the end of their careers both became alcoholics) and because, as she said in her Wellesley address, Hollywood had never been very interested in making movies by or about women. She once wrote, \u201cOne of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there\u2019s no confusion about who\u2019s to blame: you are.\u201d<br \/>\nMr. Nichols said he had encouraged her to direct. \u201cI knew she would be able to do it,\u201d he recalled. \u201cNot only did she have a complete comprehension of the process of making a movie \u2014 she simply soaked that up \u2014 but she had all the ancillary skills, the people skills, all the hundreds of things that are useful when you\u2019re making a movie.\u201d<br \/>\nHer first effort at directing,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/49544\/This-Is-My-Life-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cThis Is My Life\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(1992), with a screenplay by Ms. Ephron and her sister Delia, based on a novel by Meg Wolitzer about a single mother trying to become a standup comedian, was a dud. But Ms. Ephron redeemed herself in 1993 with \u201cSleepless in Seattle\u201d (she shared the screenwriting credits), which brought Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan together so winningly that they were cast again in \u201cYou\u2019ve Got Mail.\u201d<br \/>\nAmong the other movies Ms. Ephron wrote and directed were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/187122\/Lucky-Numbers-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cLucky Numbers\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(2000),<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/gst\/movies\/titlelist.html?v_idlist=84896;157277;295630&amp;inline=nyt_ttl\">\u201cBewitched\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(2005) and, her last, \u201cJulie &amp; Julia\u201d (2009), in which Ms. Streep played Julia Child.<br \/>\nShe and Ms. Streep had been friends since they worked on \u201cSilkwood\u201d together. \u201cNora just looked at every situation and cocked her head and thought, \u2018Hmmmm, how can I make this more fun?\u2019\u00a0\u201d Ms. Streep wrote in an e-mail on Tuesday.<br \/>\nMs. Ephron earned three Oscar nominations for best screenplay, for \u201cSilkwood,\u201d \u201cSleepless in Seattle\u201d and \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally.\u201d But in all her moviemaking years she never gave up writing in other forms. Two essay collections,\u00a0<a title=\"New York Times Review\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/20\/books\/review\/20Schillinger.html?pagewanted=all\">\u201cI Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Reflections on Being a Woman\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(2006) and \u201cI Remember Nothing\u201d (2010), were both best sellers. With her sister Delia she wrote a play, \u201cLove, Loss, and What I Wore,\u201d about women and their wardrobes (once calling it \u201c\u00a0\u2018The Vagina Monologues\u2019 without the vaginas\u201d) and by herself she wrote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/453662\/Imaginary-Friends-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cImaginary Friends,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0a play, produced in 2002, about the literary and personal quarrel between Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy.<br \/>\nShe also became an enthusiastic blogger for The Huffington Post, writing on subjects like the Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn\u2019s accidentally putting a hole in a Picasso he owned and Ryan ONeal\u2019s failing to recognize his own daughter and making a pass at her.<br \/>\nSeveral years ago, Ms. Ephron learned that she had myelodysplastic syndrome, a pre-leukemic condition, but she kept the illness a secret from all but a few intimates and continued to lead a busy, sociable life.<br \/>\n\u201cShe had this thing about not wanting to whine,\u201d the writer Sally Quinn said on Tuesday. \u201cShe didn\u2019t like self-pity. It was always, you know, \u2018Suck it up.\u2019\u00a0\u201d<br \/>\nMs. Ephron\u2019s first marriage, to the writer Dan Greenburg, ended in divorce, as did her marriage to Mr. Bernstein. In 1987 she married Nicholas Pileggi, the author of the books<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/412616\/Wiseguy-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cWiseguy\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/gst\/movies\/titlelist.html?v_idlist=8518;135453;264203&amp;inline=nyt_ttl\">\u201cCasino.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(Her contribution to \u201cNot Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure,\u201d edited by Larry Smith, reads: \u201cSecret to life, marry an Italian.\u201d)<br \/>\nIn addition to her son Jacob Bernstein, a journalist who writes frequently for the Styles section of The Times, Ms. Ephron is survived by Mr. Pileggi; another son, Max Bernstein, a rock musician; and her sisters Delia Ephron; Amy Ephron, who is also a screenwriter; and Hallie Ephron, a journalist and novelist.<br \/>\nIn person Ms. Ephron \u2014 small and fine-boned with high cheeks and a toothy smile \u2014 had the same understated, though no less witty, style that she brought to the page.<br \/>\n\u201cSitting at a table with Nora was like being in a Nora Ephron movie,\u201d Ms. Quinn said. \u201cShe was brilliant and funny.\u201d<br \/>\nShe was also fussy about her hair and made a point of having it professionally blow-dried twice a week. \u201cIt\u2019s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis and much more uplifting,\u201d Ms. Ephron said.<br \/>\nAnother friend, Robert Gottlieb, who had edited her books since the 1970s, said that her death would be \u201cterrible for her readers and her movie audience and her colleagues.\u201d But \u201cthe private Nora was even more remarkable,\u201d he added, saying she was \u201calways there for you with a full heart plus the crucial dose of the reality principle.\u201d<br \/>\nMs. Streep called her a \u201cstalwart.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYou could call on her for anything: doctors, restaurants, recipes, speeches, or just a few jokes, and we all did it, constantly,\u201d she wrote in her e-mail. \u201cShe was an expert in all the departments of living well.\u201d<br \/>\nThe producer Scott Rudin recalled that less than two weeks before her death, he had a long phone session with her from the hospital while she was undergoing treatment, going over notes for a pilot she was writing for a TV series about a bank compliance officer. Afterward she told him, \u201cIf I could just get a hairdresser in here, we could have a meeting.\u201d<br \/>\nMs. Ephron\u2019s collection \u201cI Remember Nothing\u201d concludes with two lists, one of things she says she won\u2019t miss and one of things she will. Among the \u201cwon\u2019t miss\u201d items are dry skin, Clarence Thomas, the sound of the vacuum cleaner, and panels on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/239463\/Women-in-Film-Movie-\/overview\">\u201cWomen in Film.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0The other list, of the things she will miss, begins with \u201cmy kids\u201d and \u201cNick\u201d and ends this way:<br \/>\n\u201cTaking a bath<br \/>\nComing over the bridge to Manhattan<br \/>\nPie.\u201d\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORA EPHRON | 1941-2012 Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor Jonathan Wenk\/Columbia Pictures Nora Ephron on the set of her 2009 film, \u201cJulie &amp; Julia,\u201d starring Ms. Streep, seated.\u00a0More Photos \u00bb By\u00a0CHARLES McGRATH Published: June 26, 2012\u00a0143 Comments FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ EMAIL SHARE PRINT REPRINTS Nora Ephron, an essayist and humorist in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - 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