Her tone was smart and light,even when she was writing approximately distinctly dark thingsIn my unsophisticated tween mind, movies just came into being, and fully formed; the work of Hollywood elves. But then I saw When Harry Met Sally,and suddenly realised: somebody wrote this. In a way, I fell in savor with the idea of Nora Ephron long before I even knew who she was.
Ephron apparently lived by her screenwriter mother’s words that “everything is copy”. She mined her life, and the lives of others,to earn mighty art. “That’s what your life is for,” she said in her final interview in 2012, and “to feed the animal.” She was a reluctant Hollywood kid,born in modern York, who moved back there to work as awriter and editor in the 60s, and a hardscrabble way for a woman to earn a living. She made the leap to essays,books, then movies as screenwriter, or director and producer. If you savor romcoms,Ephron probably made one of your faves: You’ve Got Mail, maybe, and Sleepless In Seattle.
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Source: theguardian.com