R.I.P. Nora Ephron

Hammond On Nora Ephron: She Did It All With Style UPDATES: (With statements below) Three time Oscar nominee Nora Ephron, the successful quintuple threat director and screenwriter and playwright and author and columnist who made a career out of the frank depictions of women and their relationships with men and careers and themselves, died today. Sources told Deadline she had been suffering from leukemia but didn’t want the showbiz community to know and had kept her illness a private matter. (The family later confirmed she died of acute myeloid leukemia). The result is that her death came as a shock to Hollywood. She was 71. Many considered Ephron one of Hollywood’s first successful feminist filmmakers able to bring humor, drama, pathos, and sometimes sentimentality to her depictions of women’s lives and their families. The New York native wrote and/or directed some of Hollywood’s most admired and even best-loved modern movies, including Silkwood (1983), When Harry Met Sally (1989), This Is My Life (1992, her first directing effort), Sleepless In Seattle (1993), You’ve Got Mail (1998), and Julie And Julia (2009). She was a triple Academy Awards nominee in the Original Screenplay category for three films: Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. One of her least successful films, Heartburn, was autobiographical based on her 1983 roman a clef and depicted the ... Read More »

Source: http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/nora-ephron-dead-sleepless-in-seattle-screenwriter-death/

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