RIP Nora Ephron

[old_tony]

I'd already seen one report on Twitter's Breaking News feed that the WashPost is reporting she has died, but I've not been able to locate anything other than a report on the web that she's gravely ill.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/06/26/nora-ephron-is-seriously-ill-book-rep-says/

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Re: Nora Ephron near the end

That's so sad. A wonderful writer.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Re: Nora Ephron near the end

Very sad... An extreme talent...

 

[imjustagirl]

Re: Nora Ephron near the end

http://abcnews.go.com/US/writer-director-nora-ephron-dead-71/story?id=16656032

ABC reporting it, among others.

 

[JR]

Re: Nora Ephron near the end

The Times obituary.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/movies/nora-ephron-essayist-screenwriter-and-director-dies-at-71.html?_r=1

I used to read her stuff regularly in Esquire. She coined one of the great foodie terms ever, "gastroporn".

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Re: Nora Ephron near the end

I had NO idea she was 71. Wow.

A talent indeed.

 

[JR]

And the New Yorker posts some of her articles from the magazine.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/06/nora-ephron-1941-2012.html

My favourite is "No But We Saw the Movie", her take on "No Country for Old Men"

 

[Versatile]

"A Few Words on Breasts" ranks among the best personal essays I've ever read and reads like a particularly eloquent Care Bear outtake.

http://www.esquire.com/features/nora-ephron-a-few-words-about-breasts-0572

 

[hondo]

Read a story on the only scene guys like in Sleepless in Seattle ... when Tom Hanks and the guy who played his bro-in-law start weeping over the Dirty Dozen. Was supposedly an ad-lib. The cameras kept rolling, the director loved it and left it in. Apparently Nora was not pleased.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

**** Cavett remembers Nora Ephron:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/vamping-with-nora/