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Celebrated novelist Nora Ephron passed away early on 27 June 2012 at the age of 71 after
succumbing to complications of the blood disorder myelodysplasia, a blood disorder she was
diagnosed with six years ago.
A versatile artist, she was a playwright, screenwriter, journalist and blogger amongst many other
things.
Her film work, much like her writing, is known for her perceptive observations, which she managed
to get through to people the best way she knew how- a self-deprecating and deadpan sense of
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‘Heartburn’ (Screenwriter, Novelist) (1986)
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The movie chronicles the marriage of food writer Rachel Samstat (Streep) and political columnist Weekend Guide
Mark Forman (Nicholson). The two of them meet and get caught up in a whirlwind courtship and Art and Performing...
eventually marry. ‘Heartburn’ is the first of many of Ephron's works to explore the differences
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between men and women – their wants and needs are expressed here through Rachel's
disappointment in her sacrifice of career for her marriage, only to realize the adultery taking place
behind her back.
‘When Harry Met Sally’ (Writer, Associate Producer) (1989)
A classic, ‘When Harry Met Sally’ is a true romantic comedy, one that is very romantic and actually
very funny. Directed by Rob Reiner (‘This Is Spinal Tap’, ‘The Princess Bride’) and starring Meg
Ryan and Billy Crystal, this movie sees Ephron further exploring the subject of men and women
together, this time in the form of the question, “Can a man and a woman really be just nothing more
than friends?”
A simple story about the titular couple told over a period of about 10 years, the film explores sexual
tension and friendship between two people with varying ideas about love and relationships. In
particular, Harry starts off the movie believing that a man and a woman can never be just friends,
because he believes that sex gets in the way of that. That same belief will come to be challenged
by Sally and even himself throughout the movie. The chemistry between the two leads is just
electric. Plus, there are two iconic scenes in this one movie alone; the deli scene where Meg Ryan
famously fakes an orgasm and the ending monologue where Billy Crystal pours his heart out.
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‘Sleepless In Seattle’ (Director, Writer) (1993)
Ms. Ephron's second effort at directing after 1992's ‘This Is My Life’ reunited Tom Hanks and Meg
Ryan from the cult comedy ‘Joe Versus the Volcano’. The plot is a little on the dreamy side and
revolves around Sam Baldwin (Hanks), a widowed Chicago architect. He is somehow persuaded
by his young son, Jonah, to go on air on the radio to talk about how much he misses Maggie,
whom he lost to cancer.
Women all over the country are touched and start writing to Sam. Annie Reed (Ryan), is a
Baltimore Sun reporter who is engaged to Walter (Bill Pullman) but feels there is something
missing in their relationship. She writes a letter to Sam on impulse, suggesting they meet on top of
the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day. She doesn't mail it, but her editor Becky does,
sending Annie to Seattle on assignment to do a story on the radio show.
The story then revolves around them not meeting before they eventually and quite predictably
meet. Much of the movie is inspired by ‘An Affair to Remember’, a movie starring Cary Grant.
References to it are everywhere, from the use of its theme song and clips and it being a security
guard's wife's favourite movie to Tom Hanks' character commenting on it.
The movie largely rests on the shoulders of the two very likable leads, who share a wonderful
chemistry together. The two of them would reunite again in...
‘You've Got Mail’ (Director, Writer, Producer) (1998)
Just like ‘Sleepless In Seattle’, ‘You've Got Mail’ is also inspired by another film. In this case, it's
the 1940 film by Ernst Lubitsch, ‘The Shop Around the Corner’.
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Updated to the modern age with email, the film essentially remains the same conceptually; two
people corresponding and falling in love through e-mail without realizing that they can't stand each
other in real life. Hanks plays Joe Fox, owner of Fox Books, a mega-chain book store while Meg
Ryan is his indie counterpart, the owner of the book shop her mom used to run, “The Shop Around
The Corner.” The movie is also Ephron's love letter to the Upper West Side of New York,
showcasing the tightly knit community the area is renowned for.
An enjoyable movie that (once again) works so well because of the leads and also of the simple
but charming concept, the film also features Nora Ephron boldly embracing the use of technology
as a subject in a rom-com, something she would do again in...
‘Julie & Julia’ (Director, Writer, Producer) (2009)
Starring Meryl Streep as celebrity TV chef Julia Child, this culinary dramedy juxtaposes the life of
Child during the early stages of her culinary career during the 1950s with the life of ordinary New
Yorker Julie Powell (Amy Adams) in 2002.
Struggling writer Julie has a pretty crappy job answering phone calls, so she decides to do
something she thoroughly enjoys and challenges herself to cook every recipe in the Child’s book
‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking’ within a year.
That's 524 recipes in 365 days; so she starts documenting her progress on her blog, “The
Julie/Julia Project”, which would eventually get published in the form of two books.
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