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Reese Witherspoon scored her first Oscar playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, and now she's taking on another iconic singer. Witherspoon is putting together a biopic of Peggy Lee, a jazz/pop singer who rose to fame in the 1940s. Witherspoon will also produce the film, and she's got Nora Ephron on board to write and direct. Ephron may be better known for romantic comedies like You've Got Read more
Maggie Gyllenhaal joined fellow Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe last night for a cocktail party thrown by the USA Network in NYC. It was a reception held for their annual Character Approved Awards, which honored director Nora Ephron, designer Narcisco Rodriguez, and many more. Maggie and Gabourey have been together on lots of red carpets so far this award season, as they make the rounds supporting Read more
"The desire to get married, which — I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women — is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge — which is to be single again." Julie and Julia director Nora Ephron explains her views on marriage. Her new film is based on the memoir by Julie Powell and tells the story of a woman who cooked and blogged her way through Julia Read more
Currently working the publicity circuit for her new movie, Julie & Julia, writer Nora Ephron was quoted in a piece for Parenting about how having children affected her marriage. The mother of two sons once said: When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Did you and your spouse endure this after Read more
"Horses, horses, horses, horses. . . ." I hope one of the songs in the Sleepless in Seattle Broadway musical begins like that, patterned after Meg Ryan's little moment singing along to the holiday tune in her car. According to Variety, the script for Sleepless in Seattle — The Musical is about half finished, and about 18 songs have been written. The article notes, "Sticking to plot of the Read more
Sometimes all we need is a few good words to get us moving. “If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini and don’t take it off until you’re 34.” — Nora Ephron from I Feel Bad About My Neck Need more motivation? Check out all my motivational quotes. Source Read more
Every other Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt! I hope you're in a romantic mood because this week I've set my sights on a great romcom: Sleepless in Seattle. The movie was, as you probably remember, a big hit featuring box office stars Meg Ryan and Read more
Frankly, I think this is awesome. Meryl Streep is in talks to play Julia Child in a film adaptation of Julie Powell's book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle) will write the adaptation and will direct as well. Amy Adams is signed on to costar. The story will follow "a frustrated temp secretary who embarks on a Read more
Sometimes all we need is a few good words to get us moving... “If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini and don’t take it off until you’re 34.” - Nora Ephron, author of 'I Feel Bad About My Neck' Source Read more
Remember Nora Ephron, the screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally...? Lately, it seems like all she wants to talk about is how she feels bad about her aging neck. "The neck is a dead giveaway," she writes. "Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to do that if it had a neck." Maybe so, but your neck doesn't have Read more
