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maddezmom

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Tue Jun 26, 2012, 07:38 PM Jun 2012

x-post from LBN- Nora Ephron Dead at 71 [View all]

Nora Ephron Dead at 71
Source: Slate

Nora Ephron, the American author, director and Oscar-nominated screenwriter best known for a string of iconic romantic comedies, died Tuesday evening at the age of 71, the Washington Post and CBS News report.
The exact cause of her death was not immediately clear, although reports earlier in the day suggested she was battling leukemia.

Ephron was, in the words of the Post, "one of America's warmest and most acute chroniclers of contemporary culture and society," someone who was known since her earliest years as a journalist and essayist "for a keen cultural barometer, channeling her interest in the zeitgiest to the screen, the page and the theater."

She was nominated for the Academy Award for original screenplay three times: Silkwood, which lost out to Tender Mercies at the 1984 awards ceremony; When Harry Met Sally..., which lost to Dead Poets Society in 1990; and Sleepless in Seattle, which was defeated by The Piano in 1994.* She earned her most recent movie credit in 2009 with Julie & Julia, which starred Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.

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Oh no!! Starry Messenger Jun 2012 #1
Damn obamanut2012 Jun 2012 #2
This is sad. I was reading Obamanut's movie thread and saw how many times Silkwood was mentioned. yardwork Jun 2012 #3
Some Nora Ephron quotes Gormy Cuss Jun 2012 #4
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