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Nora Ephron with her sons, Jacob (left) and Max, around 1981. Photograph from the Ephron/Pileggi/Bernstein family. All her life, she subscribed to the belief that “everything is copy,” a...
Mar 31, 2016 · Writer, director and journalist Nora Ephron died in 2012 of complications from leukemia. Courtesy of HBO. The new documentary Everything Is Copy — about the late writer, director and journalist...
- Why Wasn’T Her Third Husband, Author Nick Pileggi, Involved in Your Film?
- Do You Try to Emulate Her Famous Dinner parties?
- What Did You Learn About Her While Making This Movie?
- Do You Think She Was Judged Differently as A Humorist Because She Was A Woman?
With Nick, the issue was really about breaking down on camera. I think he felt gobsmacked by her death. They had a tremendous love affair, and a really ideal marriage.
I do not cook a thing. I cannot cook. The saddest thing about it is she had this fantastic cookbook she didn’t publish, and I’ve now read almost all of her writing, but I have not made my way through that. The thing I miss the most is her roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, which was just perfect. I remember the food a lot.
The most surprising thing was how many people she whacked and got away with it! We live in this very corporate era, where reporters and their subjects are separated by a rope; back then she had much more access and freedom. She wrote about her ex-boyfriends, her first ex-husband, my father, [New York Post publisher] Dorothy Schiff, [New York magazi...
Well, I don’t think people talk much about whether Tom Wolfe was “kind.” Or Gay Talese, or all the other people who were doing the New Journalism. I think that in my mother there was this warm-apple-pie thing with her voice that made her emotionally available. There was this duality. Ultimately, this movie is a great celebration of her, but I think...
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Mar 21, 2016 · Everything Is Copy, the new documentary about the late Nora Ephron, directed by her older son, Jacob Bernstein, takes its title from a phrase the essayist, screenwriter, and filmmaker learned...
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Mar 21, 2016 · Bringing My Mother Back From the Dead: Jacob Bernstein on Nora Ephron and "Everything is Copy". She made a considerable dent in the glass ceiling as a journalist, gave us insightful and pointedly witty essay collections, penned three Oscar-nominated scripts and directed two of the most popular romantic comedies of our time, “ Sleepless in ...
Mar 21, 2016 · Within her inner circle, of course, was Ephron’s eldest son, Jacob Bernstein, a journalist himself, who’s spent the last few years writing about his mother’s death and looking for answers...
Mar 21, 2016 · Mar 21, 2016 2:03pm PT. ‘Everything Is Copy’: Jacob Bernstein Talks Nora Ephron’s Legacy and His Documentary Debut. By Geoff Berkshire. Dan Greenburg/courtesy of HBO. After Nora Ephron...