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Reese Witherspoon to Channel Peggy Lee

BuzzSugar — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:30:31 PDT

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 Mail, but she's fresh off making Julie & Julia, which gives me hope that she can get a performance from Witherspoon that rivals Meryl Streep's. What say you - can Witherspoon pull off yet another famous songbird?

Maggie and Gabourey Take a Night to Celebrate Others

PopSugar — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:00:00 PST

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 Crazy Heart and Precious, respectively. They were both decked out for this month's Academy Awards luncheon, and they'll be side by side on March 7 when the big day finally arrives - before then, make sure to fill our your ballot!

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Say What? Nora Ephron on Marriage

TresSugar — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:00:00 PDT

"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 Child's classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Julie and Julia stars Meryl Streep as the magnificent Julia Child and opens in theaters this Friday.

Do Babies Set Off a Marital Explosion?

LilSugar — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:00:38 PDT

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 entering parenthood?

Sleepless in Seattle to Become Broadway Musical

BuzzSugar — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:30:54 PST

"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 Sleepless pic, the new tuner follows a cross-country romance arranged by a young boy for his widowed father. Storyline will remain set in the early 1990s."

I'm glad to hear that, since I think part of the movie's greatness is that it's so quintessentially '90s - back before Internet dating made it not so unusual at all to find love 3,000 miles away (actually, before the Internet made it much easier to find people in general) and before acronyms (like Jessica's MFEO = Made For Each Other) were commonly used as text message communication. I'm not going to lie, I'll probably see this production, just to find out how on earth they do it.

What do you think? And what are some suggestions for musical numbers to include in the stage musical? Would you want to see it?

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Words That Move You . . .

FitSugar — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:00:00 PDT

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.

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Recast Sleepless in Seattle and Win a Prize!

BuzzSugar — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:34:01 PDT

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 Tom Hanks (who managed to have a lot of chemistry despite spending about five minutes on screen together). I have a special place in my heart for this movie and for the film's writer/director Nora Ephron.

If you could recast this film today, who would you pick for the two romantic leads? Remember, Tom Hanks' widowed character Sam Baldwin is old enough to have a school-aged son and Meg Ryan's Annie Reed is an accomplished journalist engaged to be married. Who would be Annie's quick-witted BFF Becky, originally played by Rosie O'Donnell? And then there are the two little ones: What little boy could you see as Sam's son Jonah and his acronym-slinging pal Jessica, played by Gabby Hoffmann? If you'd like to recast Annie's nerdy fiance Walter (Bill Pullman), as well as Sam's best friends Greg (Victor Garber) and Suzy (Rita Wilson), go for it.

Leave your entry in the comment section below, and I'll pick one winner to feature Tuesday, May 13, complete with a "new" cast photo.

To see a list of characters to recast and a photo of the BuzzSugar t-shirt,

read more. Characters to recast Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) Annie Reed (Meg Ryan) Becky (Rosie O'Donnell) Jonah Baldwin (Ross Malinger) Jessica (Gabby Hoffmann) The BuzzSugar t-shirt Source

Meryl Streep to Play Julia Child

BuzzSugar — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:38:43 PDT

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 yearlong culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She chronicles her trials and tribulations in a blog that catches on with the food crowd."

A food blog, eh? I can't wait to go see this movie with my favorite foodie blogger, YumSugar. What do you think about this casting news?

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Words That Move You...

FitSugar — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:15:00 PDT

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'

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Why You Don't Necessarily Need to Feel Bad About Your Neck

BellaSugar — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:08:41 PDT

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 to be any less gorgeous and healthy than your face. The key to avoiding "turkey neck" in your golden years is to stop it before it starts, and fortunately, doing so is easy. Wear sunscreen every day (even on cloudy days and in winter). When you apply your moisturizer each morning, cover your entire face, then apply lotion on your neck and decolletage, too. With vigilant use, the book you write in your 60s will be I Feel Great About My Neck. As for writing hit romantic comedies, well, you're on your own with that.