Written and directed By Ephron’s Son, Jacob Bernstein, HBO’s new documentary EVERYTHING IS COPY Nora Ephron: Scripted & Unscripted features interviews with big names like Mike Nichols, Tom Hanks, Delia Ephron, David Remnick, Gay Talese, Steven Spielberg and Meryl Streep, along With Dramatic Readings by Lena Dunham, Reese Witherspoon, Rita Wilson and Gaby Hoffmann.
Gifted Ephron, a playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger who brought us some of the most amazing and memorable movies ever, passed away back in 2012 at the age of 71. She leaves behind two grown sons and screenwriter husband of twenty years, Nicholas Pileggi.
Some of her classics include When Harry Met Sally, You’ve Got Mail, Silkwood, Julia & Julia, Heartburn, Cookie, Sleepless in Seattle, and Michael just to name some.
Ephron one said: “When you slip on the banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on the banana peel, it’s your laugh. So you become the hero, rather than the victim of the joke.”
This was Nora Ephron’s philosophy, inherited from her own mother. She believed that being a writer meant turning the bad things that happen to you into comedy.
The candid portrait EVERYTHING IS COPY Nora Ephron: Scripted & Unscripted debuts MONDAY, MARCH 21 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.
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Ephron back in 2011 at NY’s Alice Tully Hall