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Displaying all articles tagged:
Nora Ephron
bros
Oct. 3, 2022
Stop Saving the Rom-com
As an empty vessel of a genre, the romantic comedy is not worth resuscitating, though what it once contained probably is.
By
Jackson McHenry
role call
Aug. 26, 2021
Rosie O’Donnell Answers Every Question We Have About
Sleepless in Seattle
On forgetting her lines in front of Nora Ephron, attending the premiere with Madonna, and embracing the “funny friend” role.
By
Matthew Jacobs
book excerpt
Jan. 22, 2021
Mike Nichols’s Heartburn
After directing Nora Ephron’s divorce movie, his own breakup — and breakdown — turned out to be around the corner.
By
Mark Harris
friday night movie club
Nov. 6, 2020
When Harry Met Sally
Won the Friday Night Movie Club Election
You’ll have what we’re having.
By
Jen Chaney
hunter’s line readings
Sept. 29, 2020
This One Line From
When Harry Met Sally
Plays on a Loop in My Head
No, not that one.
By
Hunter Harris
role call
Aug. 28, 2019
Andie MacDowell Answers Every Question We Have About
Michael
It’s perhaps the most profoundly ’90s film: A Nora Ephron romantic comedy starring John Travolta as an overalls-wearing, tobacco-addicted angel.
By
Rachel Handler
movies
Feb. 15, 2019
Meg Ryan Is Writing Her Own Romantic Comedy
“I’m aware now that romantic comedies are confections, but they have construction.”
By
Hunter Harris
Apr. 19, 2018
Michelle Dean’s
Sharp
Tells the Origin Stories of 10 Essential Female Critics
Across these portraits it’s possible to trace currents in American literary history as it unfolded between World War I and now.
By
Christian Lorentzen
Mar. 1, 2018
Phoebe Robinson’s 10 Favorite Books
Roxane Gay, Zora Neale Hurston, and more
By
Phoebe Robinson
when harry met sally
Dec. 27, 2016
Carrie Fisher Was the Best Part of
When Harry Met Sally
“You’re right, you’re right, I know you’re right.”
By
Hunter Harris
goodbyes
Mar. 21, 2016
Nora Ephron’s Son Made a Touching Film About Her
Why did a woman so committed to full transparency choose to be so guarded about the greatest battle of her life?
By
Jada Yuan
books
Feb. 24, 2016
The Unintentional Last Words of 13 Famous Writers
Including James Baldwin, Lou Reed, Nora Ephron, and David Foster Wallace.
By
Vulture Editors
Sept. 1, 2015
How a Good Script Becomes a Bad Movie: The Inside Story of ‘Lucky Numbers’
Chances are you’ve never heard of Lucky Numbers and if you have, you probably couldn’t get past the one-sheet depicting its stars Lisa Kudrow […]
By
Mike Sullivan
candy
Nov. 14, 2014
Here’s the Julia Child–Only Version of
Julie & Julia
You Always Wanted
Someone edited out Julie.
By
Jesse David Fox
adaptations
Aug. 6, 2014
Brownstein Will Finish Ephron’s
Lost in Austen
About a woman transported to the world of Jane Austen.
By
Anna Silman
vulture originals
July 16, 2014
See
When Harry Met Sally
’s
New York
Magazine Cover
Yes, we made one.
By
Lindsey Weber
and
Jed Egan
biographies
Dec. 9, 2013
Richard Cohen to Pen a Nora Ephron Biography
The Washington
Post
columnist was the first speaker at Ephron’s funeral.
By
Lindsey Weber
Apr. 5, 2013
HBO Is Developing a Nora Ephron Documentary
The late great Nora Ephron is the subject of a new documentary for HBO. THR reports that Ephron’s son, journalist Jacob Bernstein, is […]
By
Bradford Evans
tributes
Apr. 5, 2013
HBO Is Working on a Nora Ephron Documentary
Directed by her son.
By
Amanda Dobbins
stage dive
Apr. 1, 2013
Theater Review:
Lucky Guy
and Nora Ephron’s Love for Newsrooms
“Ephron was damned lucky; few writers write their best work last and manage to go out with a bang.”
By
Jesse Green
slideshow
Mar. 24, 2013
Photos: At
Lucky Guy
Rehearsals With Tom Hanks
Next month, Hanks makes his debut in Nora Ephron’s final play.
By
Jada Yuan
vulture reads
Mar. 10, 2013
Sunday Reads: Ephron’s Illness, Buying
Star Wars
Another excuse to stay indoors.
By
Andre Tartar
and
Caroline Bankoff
things to read
Mar. 6, 2013
Jacob Bernstein Remembers His Mom, Nora Ephron
It’s worth your time.
By
Amanda Dobbins
vulture debates
Feb. 14, 2013
You’ve Got Mail
Vs.
Sleepless in Seattle
: Fight!
Which Nora Ephron classic is better? Or are they even any good at all?
By
Margaret Lyons
and
Josh Wolk
on broadway
Oct. 11, 2012
Tom Hanks All Set to Make His Broadway Debut
In Nora Ephron’s play
Lucky Guy.
By
Margaret Lyons
vulture reads
July 1, 2012
Sunday Reads: Nora Ephron, The Band, Louis C.K.
Another excuse to stay indoors.
By
Andre Tartar,
and
Caroline Bankoff
June 28, 2012
Lena Dunham Writes About Her Friendship with Nora Ephron
Today, Lena Dunham wrote for the New Yorker’s website about being both a friend and fan of Nora Ephron’s. She writes: I devoured her prose, […]
By
Jesse David Fox
memories
June 27, 2012
Mindy Kaling Walked Us Through
You’ve Got Mail
She says it’s the “most soul-mate-y of soul-mate movies.”
By
Margaret Lyons
nora ephron
June 27, 2012
Visit the Ancient Website for
You’ve Got Mail
R.I.P. Nora Ephron.
By
Eliot Glazer
June 27, 2012
R.I.P. Nora Ephron
This sucks. Writer/director/rom-com revolutionary Nora Ephron passed away yesterday from pneumonia stemming from acute myeloid leukemia. She […]
By
Jesse David Fox
casting
May 9, 2012
Tom Hanks Circling Nora Ephron Broadway Play
He is making a run for the EGOT.
By
Kyle Buchanan
sesame street
Dec. 16, 2011
Watch
Good Day New York
’s Greg Kelly Verbally Bulldoze Maria From
Sesame Street
The Soup
’s favorite local news anchor, Greg Kelly, doesn’t let Maria from
Sesame Street
off the hook easily.
By
Eliot Glazer
good match
Oct. 11, 2011
Nora Ephron to Direct Jane Austen-Related Movie
Appropriate reaction is “Woo hoo!”
By
Willa Paskin
chat room
Sept. 23, 2010
Vulture Watches
You’ve Got Mail
With Mindy Kaling
’The Office’ writer and actress dissects her favorite romantic comedy.
By
Emma Rosenblum
reese witherspoon
Aug. 9, 2010
Reese Witherspoon in Talks to Portray Peggy Lee
Biopic will be written and directed by Nora Ephron.
By
Josh Duboff
the girl with the satire
June 28, 2010
Scandinavian Names All Sound the Same to Nora Ephron
Or the ones in ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest’ do.
By
Willa Paskin
jackman
June 23, 2010
Jackman: Back to Broadway?
He was recently in town for a top secret reading of a new Norah Ephron play.
By
Lane Brown
when joe met mika
May 10, 2010
Morning Joe
: Nora Ephron–Approved Romantic Comedy
On MSNBC every morning.
By
Willa Paskin
kudos
Jan. 18, 2010
Ephron Not Happy About
Julie & Julia
’s Globes Loss
She is caught tearing up her now-moot acceptance speech on camera.
By
Josh Wolk
chat room
Oct. 27, 2009
Glee
’s Jane Lynch on
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
and Her Final Episode of
Party Down
“It’s what the devil on my shoulder says all day long to me … I don’t have to dig very deep for Sue Sylvester.”
By
Jada Yuan
quote machine
Aug. 6, 2009
Jon Hamm Texts Like a Sailor
Plus: Brad Pitt narrowly escapes marijuana.
By
Emma Pearse
quote machine
July 8, 2009
Gary Busey, Serial
Entourage
Tickler
Plus: Tom Waits declares his love for Denny’s.
By
Emma Pearse
the industry
Jan. 23, 2009
Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell to Possibly Kill Each Other on Film
Plus: Some serious witch action.
By
Amos Barshad
the industry
Nov. 1, 2007
Joss Whedon Returns to TV — and Brings Faith With Him
Plus industry news on Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, Meryl Streep and Julia Child, and Mulder and Scully.