For Nora Ephron, 'Everything Is Copy'

Nora Ephron's gay son, Jacob Bernstein, wrote and directed a film about his late mother and it sounds perfect:

“I don’t think she would be upset by the endeavor or the idea that I would pursue something so personal about her and reveal it to the world,” Bernstein, 37, said on the red carpet. “She did certainly do a lot of this herself. She was a person who wrote about the indignities of aging, her physical imperfections and intimate details about the breakup of her marriage to my father, and that was all risky for her. That’s what the film is about. Everything is sort of fair game. When someone like her has this enormous life, you’re sort of wasting an experience if you don’t use it. She would have felt the same way. She believed that being a writer meant turning the bad things that happen to you into comedy. Everything is copy to her.”

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"Everything Is Copy' debuts on HBO on March 21 at 9 p.m.

The filmmaker at the premiere with his father, Carl Bernstein, of Woodward and Bernstein fame

When Nora Met Destiny

 Jacob Bernstein's piece about mom Nora Ephron's battle with myelodysplastic syndrome will make you laugh and cry, and feel surprisingly inspired. Read HERE.

Remembering Nora Ephron

If you were a fan of the great Nora Ephron, then you must read about the star-studded memorial that was held for her Monday at Lincoln Center. Like Nora, it will make you laugh, it will make you cry -- and it will make you glad we had her as long as we did. Read HERE.

Nora Ephron Does Not Do Blurbs -- or Detroit

Even a Motor City native has to love this gem of a letter from 1994:

Dear Elizabeth Wurtzel: 

I’m sorry not to have written sooner, but your letter and book landed in a pile that other things got on top of. I finally read P.N. [Prozac Nation] and I think you are a brilliant and funny writer. I don’t give quotes, took myself out of the quote business years ago when my vet wrote a book (I had pets once) and asked for a quote. Not to link you with my vet. Anyway, you are truly wonderful and so is your book and I hope they do not send you to places like Detroit to promote it, which could make even a person with no history of depression depressed. I cannot imagine that you would ever want to write a screenplay, but if you ever do, call me up. I’m in the book. 

Very best,
Nora Ephron

(Via Romenesko)

Nora Ephron Is Dead at 71 #silkwood

What a total shock. RIP, Nora Ephron. Truly one-of-a-kind -- or, as she put it, "probably the only intern President Kennedy never hit on." Read her New York Times obituary HERE.