Jennifer Ball: The Day Nora Ephron Inspired Me

If you had told me when I was 25 that at 50 I would be divorced and raising a daughter on my own I would have looked at you like you were nuts. Yet, here I stand at 50, divorced, single and raising my shining star. Although my marriage remained ...

Based on When Harry Met Sally writer Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel and pairing Jack Nicholson opposite Meryl Streep, this was always going to be a watchable affair. The stars play high-flying Washington journalists whose marriage hits ...

In 1962, a 21-year-old named Nora Ephron interviewed for a job at Newsweek. She said she wanted to be a writer. She was quickly assured that women did not become writers at Newsweek, and was offered a job sorting the mail for $55 a week.

Screenwriter Nora Ephron died a year ago this month. In her wake, she left an enduring body of work -- "Silkwood," "When Harry Met Sally," "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Julie and Julia." But the toughest arena for immortality is undoubtedly the stage, ...

She wrote about her breasts and her blowouts, her reporter days at The Post and her pre-divorce nights (Heartburn). If Nora Ephron were with us today, shed probably regale us with tales of her play, Lucky Guy. Ephron died last June, nearly a year ...

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, two-time Academy Award winner and 2013 Tony nominee Tom Hanks may be taking Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy to London. The actor is in talks for a West End opening in 2014, and he elaborated during an interview on ...

Meera Menon, a United States-based filmmaker, who has her roots in Kerala, won the inaugural Nora Ephron award at the Tribeca Film Festival. The filmmaker talks about her debut feature film Farah Goes Bang. A nd she arrives on the scene with a bang! For her ...

Joining the long list of Broadway credits for WorldStage is Lucky Guy, Nora Ephron's play about tabloid journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Mike McAlary, which stars Tom Hanks in his Broadway debut. WorldStage provides video support for the drama, ...

According to Nora Ephron, 'When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head you are delivering your Oscar acceptance speech.' However, when it comes to delivering the speech, research indicates that 75% of us suffer from ...