Regular visitors included Casablanca co-writer Julius J. Words, words, words were the air she breathed. The eldest of four children, Ephron was born in New York to screenwriters Harry and Phoebe Ephron, who moved to Beverly Hills, California, when she was four years old. Meg Ryan was among the many actresses who said they loved working with Ephron because she understood them so much better than did her male peers. and Sleepless in Seattle, and was the rare woman to write, direct and produce Hollywood movies. According to my dermatologist, the neck starts to go at 43 and that’s that.”Įven within the smart-talking axis of New York-Washington-Los Angeles, no one bettered Ephron, slender and dark-haired and armed with a killer smile.įriends from Mike Nichols and Meryl Streep to Calvin Trillin and Pete Hamill adored her for her wisdom, her loyalty and turns of phrase.Īs a screenwriter, Ephron was nominated three times for Academy Awards, for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally. There are necks with wattles and necks with creases that are on the verge of becoming wattles. Except for our necks,” she wrote in the title piece from I Feel Bad About My Neck, published in 2006. She wrote openly about her difficult childhood, her failed relationships, her doubts about her physical appearance and the hated intrusion of age. She was tough on others – Bernstein’s marital transgressions were immortalised by the spouse in Heartburn, a man “capable of having sex with a Venetian blind” – and relentless about herself. She wrote and directed such favourites as Julie & Julia and Sleepless in Seattle, and her books included the novel Heartburn, a brutal roman a clef about her marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein and the popular essay collections I Feel Bad About My Neck and I Remember Nothing.
She was 71.Įphron’s son, Jacob Bernstein, confirmed her death.īorn into a family of screenwriters, she was a top journalist in her 20s and 30s, then a best-selling author and successful director.Įphron was among the most quotable and influential writers of her generation. NORA Ephron, the essayist, author and filmmaker who challenged and thrived in the male-dominated worlds of movies and journalism and was loved, respected and feared for her wit, has died of leukaemia.
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