Ephron, by contrast, always understood it was her fate and genetic destiny to be a writer. On a recent afternoon in her opulent Upper East Side apartment, Ephron said one quality that fascinated her about Julia Child was she didn’t become Julia Child until age 50, when “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” was published. Like her writing, Ephron is chatty, witty, self-effacing and candid. When she has a grudge, whether the target is dietary (“It is time to put a halt to the egg white omelet”) or personal (she is not a fan of playwright/memoirist Lillian Hellman or New Yorker writer Lillian Ross), she is elegantly lethal. It is nostalgic about her days as a mail girl at Newsweek and a cub reporter at the New York Post. It is breathlessly funny about bald spots, temporary amnesia, divorce and other battle scars. 1 best-seller from 2006, “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman.” It continues her thoughts on aging, eating, literary feuds and Ephron family history. Her latest book is “I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections” (Knopf, 137 pages). She turns out clever articles, fun films and delicious food like a one-woman factory. She will give you a copy of her self-published personal cookbook containing her crazy red sauce and Joan Didion’s Mexican shrimp and Liz Smith’s biscuits if she likes you. She is a renowned chef with radical theories about tomato sauce (butter, not olive oil). When she made the Julia Child movie “Julie & Julia,” which produced amazing leftovers, the whole crew got fat except her. She is a Nigella-Ina Garten-Martha-level foodie yet remains trim as a greyhound. Such a person should have a bulbous cranium like a goldfish bowl.Įphron must be fatter than she looks, too. She’s an author, playwright, essayist, sought-after public speaker, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, the inventor of the modern romantic comedy and the mastermind behind Meg Ryan’s career. Today, she is the most bankable female film director in America. In the 1970s, she was one of the few female stars of journalism. If you factor in vivacity and chic stilettos, subtract another few years. NEW YORK - Nora Ephron is older than she looks. “I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections” by Nora Ephron (Knopf, 137 pages)
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