Nora Ephron to direct Pride & Prejudice & Mom Jokes
Before we get started, I know what you’re thinking: Thank God! Another contemporary Jane Austen adaptation! Between Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Pride and Predator, Sense and Sensibility and Sea...
View Article‘When Harry Met Sally’ screenwriter Nora Ephron remembered
Nora Ephron followed an unusual career trajectory in Hollywood, and the single greatest compliment I can pay to her on the occasion of her passing is that you can clearly identify what makes something...
View ArticleOn The Passing Of Nora Ephron
Famed screenwriter and essayist Nora Ephron died last night after a battle with cancer. She was 71. Her personal essays were self-depreciating, funny and often brave. The movies she wrote — most...
View ArticleRoundup: Kushner goes to bat for the competition
We begin today’s roundup with a happy confluence of Oscar contenders. It’s hardly surprising that a writer as intelligent and politically conscientious as Tony Kushner would be swift to stand up for a...
View ArticleNora Ephron Kept Her Cancer A Secret For Six Years So She Could Continue...
When Nora Ephron died last year the news that she’d been battling cancer for years came as a shock to most people, including her closest friends. She’d kept it a secret to all outside of her immediate...
View ArticleNora Ephron’s Broadway hit ‘Lucky Guy’ with Tom Hanks is a profound, poignant...
NEW YORK – It’s fitting that Nora Ephron’s swan song, the play “Lucky Guy,” calls the Broadhurst Theatre on West 44th Street home. The venue, which has played host to productions of Agatha Christie’s...
View ArticleHBO Is Developing A Documentary On Nora Ephron’s Life And Career
By now it’s no secret that we remember Nora Ephron fondly around here. So we’re pleased to hear that HBO has a documentary in the works on her life and career, spearheaded by her son Jacob, who wrote...
View ArticleTribeca Film Festival introduces Nora Ephron Prize for female filmmakers
Nearly a year on from Nora Ephron’s death, the caustic New York-based writer and filmmaker is still very much on the collective mind of her home city. Ephron’s final play, “Lucky Guy” — which Kris...
View ArticleTom Hanks lands a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut in ‘Lucky Guy’
I kind of feel like I can’t let a year lived in New York go without some commentary on the Tony Awards, which we rarely really get into around here. Alas, looking across the nominees, I see I’ve missed...
View ArticleFinally, the NSFW Rap Video About Tom Hanks We Deserve
You know what helps me get through a Tuesday? Watching Tom Hanks shoot strangers in the head and really enjoy it. In the new music video by Buckwheat Groats, the act that also gave you “Nut I Busted,”...
View ArticleAlex Garland of ‘Ex Machina’ follows others who took a writing-to-directing leap
Alex Garland, screenwriter of “28 Days Later,” “Sunshine” and “Never Let Me Go,” makes an impressive directorial debut with cerebral sci-fi thriller “Ex Machina” (in theaters today), but Garland waves...
View ArticleOn this day in pop culture history: ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’ hit No. 1
47 years ago today, on December 14, 1968, Marvin Gaye”s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” hit No.1 on the U.S. singles chart. The soul classic held that top position for seven weeks. Written by...
View ArticleJacob Bernstein Discusses The Very Personal Documentary He Made About His...
Tonight, Monday, March 21, HBO will air a documentary on the late Nora Ephron titled, Everything is Copy — Nora Ephron: Scripted & Unscripted. It’s an intimate, moving look into the life and...
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What Is Jason Sudeikis’ Ex-Girlfriend Trying To Say About Olivia Wilde’s...
Getty Image After a former nanny for Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis shared alleged stories about the couple with the Daily Mail, the internet went wild over a claimed text message from Sudeikis where...
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