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Ackerman, Mona, 17–19, 108, 120, 242–47, 249, 250, 273–74, 282
Adams, Franklin Pierce, 34
Affair to Remember, An (movie), 30, 210, 271
AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), 178
Agnelli, Gianni, 137
Algonquin Hotel, 52
Algonquin Round Table, 22, 29, 34–35, 68
All the President’s Men (Bernstein and Woodward), 123, 132
All the President’s Men (movie), 25, 26, 132–34, 165
Altman, Robert, 164
Amis, Martin, 275
Angels in America (HBO), 258
Anthony, Susan B., 35
Arbus, Diane, 208
Archie comics, 218
Arlen, Alice, 165–66, 168, 169, 190, 235, 252, 269
Arlen, Michael, 252
Living-Room War, 166
Armstrong-Jones, Antony, 65
Associated Press, 178–79
Auletta, Ken, 152, 182, 183, 184, 185, 279
Austen, Jane, 256
Bacall, Lauren “Betty,” 127–28, 252
Lauren Bacall by Myself, 127
Bailey, Lee, 8, 9, 12, 72, 252, 279
Baldwin, James, 92
Ballard, Sara, 180
Band of Brothers (TV), 254
Barbarella (movie), 54
Beatles, 65
Beatty, Warren, 167
Beck, Simone, 271
Behrendt, George W., 138
Behrendt, Olive, 138–39
Benjamin, Richard, 122
Benton, Robert, 164
Bergen, Candice, A Fine Romance, 76
Bergman, Ingrid, 111
Berkowitz, Bernard, 121–22
Bernard, Francie, 121
Bernard, Walter, 198
and “Attachment A to Marital Separation Agreement,” 155, 156
breakup with Nora, 146–49, 150–54, 155, 172, 207
and dinner parties, 126–27, 229
and Heartburn, 155–57, 171–72, 173
meeting Nora, 153–54
and movies, 132–33
and music, 144–45
traveling with, 138, 139, 141, 142
at Washington Post, ix, 20, 21, 25, 26, 90, 156
Bernstein, Jacob (son), xi, 251
documentary about Nora by, 36
and Nora and Carl’s breakup, 149, 150, 156–57, 158, 162
and Nora and Nick’s marriage, 175, 207
and Nora’s illness and death, 117, 279, 280
Nora’s pregnancy with, 7, 125–26
and Nora and Carl’s breakup, 149, 150, 156–57, 158, 162
and Nora and Nick’s marriage, 175, 207
and Nora’s illness and death, 279, 280
Bernstein, Sylvia, 123
Bewitched (movie), 6, 118, 216–19, 220
Bewitched (TV), 216–18
Big (movie), 190
Birds, The (movie), 63
Blackglama, 228
Blinder, Abe, 98
Block, Herbert “Herblock,” 60
Bogart, Humphrey, 254
Boies, David and Mary, 76–77
Bonfire of the Vanities, The (movie), 199
Boston Globe, 24
Bosworth, Patricia, 36–37
Boy from Oz, The (musical), 240
Bradlee, Benjamin C.:
and Quinn, 128–29
and Washington Post, 21, 51, 53, 134, 135
Brahms, Johannes, Academic Festival Overture, 16
Brammer, Billy Lee, The Gay Place, 13
Brantley, Ben, 233
Breyer, Stephen G., 47
Brickman, Marshall, 164
Bridge, Fred, 9
Bridge Kitchenware, 8–9
Bridges of Madison County, The (movie), 201
Brill Building, New York, 13
Brokaw, Meredith, 77
Broun, Heywood, 34
Brown, Helen Gurley, 23, 87–88, 99–100
Brown, Richard A., 185–86
Buck, Pearl, 228
Buckley, William F., Jr., Overdrive, 106
Bundy, McGeorge, 55–56
Burlingham, Bo, 97–99
Burnham, David, 164
Burton, Richard, 63
Burton, Sybil, 63–64
Caddell, Patrick, 83
Callahan, James, 143–44
Callender, Colin, 239, 257, 281
Captain Newman, M.D. (movie), 36
Caputo, Lisa, 12
Carden, Jennifer, 43, 45–46, 49
Carnelia, Craig, 233
Carroll, Diahann, 221
Carter, Graydon, 275
Carter, Jimmy, 83
Carter, Rosalynn, 128
Casino (movie), 181–82
Catch-22 (movie), 112, 115, 122, 201–2
Cavett, Dick, 116, 119, 227–28
CBS Morning News (TV), 128, 129–30
Charlie Rose (TV), 222
Cheever, John, 191
Chekhov, Anton, 135
Cher, 166
Cherry, Sheldon, 7
Chicago Daily News, 236
Child, Julia, 272
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, 271
Chisholm, Shirley, 93–94
Chopra, Deepak, 244
Christopher, Jordan, 63–64
Claiborne, Craig, 9
Clark, Mae, 191
Clinton, Bill, 73
Cohn, Sam, 163–64, 165–67, 168, 189, 198, 215–16
Collins, Gail, 263
Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone, 13
Congress for Cultural Freedom, 228
Cooper Union, New York, 274–76
Corman, Avery, 118–19, 120, 189
Corman, Judy, 52, 118–20, 219, 252
Couples, 21
Craig, Daniel, 239
Creative Artists Agency, 215
Cronyn, Hume, 13
Crum, Bartley, 37
Crystal, Billy, 188, 190, 192, 193
Cuisinart food processor, 9
Culkin, Macaulay, 164
David and Lisa (movie), 70
Davis, Al, 58
Davis, Geena, 221–22
Death of a Salesman (drama), 273
Dee, Sandra, 158
Deitl, Bo, 278
Democratic National Committee, 21, 26, 90
Democratic National Convention (1972), 93
De Niro, Robert, 167
Didion, Joan, 70
Dietrich, Marlene, 222
Disney, Walt, 209
Dispatch News Service, 132
Doc (movie), 70
Doctorow, E. L., 164
Dos Passos, John, 92
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 26
Douglas, Kirk, 64
Dreyfuss, Richard, 167
Dudar, Helen, The Attentive Eye, 66
Dunaway, Faye, 70
Dunham, Lena, 4
Dunne, John Gregory, 70
Durante, Jimmy, 210
Dutton, Fred and Nancy, 144
Dwyer, Jim, 262
Eastwood, Clint, 201
Eisenberg, Lee, 88
Eisenstein, Rabbi Ira, 69
Englander, Nathan, 3–4
Ephron, Amy (sister), 185, 212, 279
Ephron, Delia (sister), 85
and Nora’s illness and death, 248, 279, 280
as writing partner, xi, 189, 198, 214, 215, 217, 218, 248
Ephron, Hallie (sister), 105, 212, 279
Ephron, Henry (father):
in Hollywood, 29–31, 35–36, 157, 226
in New York, 33–34
and Phoebe’s death, 37
and Red Scare, 226
violence of, 37
We Thought We Could Do Anything, 30–31, 36
Ephron, Nora:
as author, see Ephron, Nora, writings of
author’s introduction to, ix, 27–28
and Carl, see Bernstein, Carl
and Dan, see Greenburg, Dan
death of, 19, 77, 117, 208, 247, 251, 280
dinner parties of, 69–70, 71–74, 78–80, 115, 126–27, 141, 185, 211–13, 232, 265
as director, 6–7, 10, 166, 168–69, 173, 190, 196–201, 202, 210, 214–19, 270; see also specific movies
dying, 1–4, 11–12, 14, 17–19, 116–17, 224, 241, 242–47, 248–52, 256–57, 263–64, 265, 266, 273–82
family background of, 38–39
and friendship, 81, 111, 118, 229, 263
and Jewishness, 105–8
memorial service for, 180, 275, 279–81
and motherhood, xi, 149, 152, 157, 161–62, 207; see also Bernstein, Jacob; Bernstein, Max
and Nick, see Pileggi, Nicholas
and paradoxes, 267–72
productivity of, 14–15
reputation of, 99
roles of, 10–11
as salonnière, 68, 69–70, 71, 78–79, 105, 127
traveling with, 137–42
Ephron, Nora, writings of:
“A Few Words About Breasts,” 7, 89–91, 94–96, 130, 158, 223
and now . . . Here’s Johnny!, 67
“Baby,” 7–8
blogs for Huffington Post, 16, 241
bylines, 65–66
clip jobs, 64–65
“Crabs,” 158–59
“Eating and Sleeping with Arthur Frommer,” 62
feature stories, 66
“Helen Gurley Brown Only Wants to Help,” 100
Higgins and Beech, 207, 235–36, 254–55, 269
I Feel Bad About My Neck, 118, 220–24
Imaginary Friends, 68, 207, 210, 226, 232–34, 239, 258
I Remember Nothing, 31, 246, 251–52, 256
and the lede, 15–16
“The Legend,” 33
Love, Loss, and What I Wore, 207, 239
Lucky Guy, 47, 207, 218, 237–41, 253–59, 262, 266, 273, 281
“mouseburger” story, 88
op-ed columns, 16
at the Post, 62–67
process in, 15–17
“Reunion,” 101
“Revision and Life: Take It from the Top Again,” 15
screenplays, see specific movies
Scribble, Scribble, 153
venues for, 17
Wallflower at the Orgy, 22, 23, 27, 91
“Where Bookmen Meet to Eat,” 150
“Women in Israel: The Myth of Liberation,” 103–4, 106–8
Ephron, Phoebe (mother):
and children, 31–33
death and dying of, x, 32, 36, 37
as drinker, x, 3, 31, 32, 33, 37–39, 269–70
family background of, 38–39, 177
in Hollywood, 29, 30–31, 35–36, 157–58, 226
Howie, 36–37
letters to Nora, 43–44
and Red Scare, 226
visit to Wellesley, 43, 44, 48
as writer, x, 29–31, 35–36, 44
Epstein, Julius, 35
Erickson, Don, 88
Esquire, 7, 10, 15, 22, 27, 87–89, 92–95, 97–99, 101–2, 128
Falkner, William, 30
Felker, Clay, 21, 22–23, 129, 229
feminism, x, 8, 35, 55, 93, 130, 168, 217
Fenstermaker, BeeBee (nickname), 104–5, 213
Ferrell, Will, 216
Fest, Joachim, Not I, 254
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 30, 92, 95
Fontana, Tom, 203
Foote, Horton, 169
Ford, Betty, 128
Fosse, Bob, 164
Fox, Joe, 85, 160–61, 176, 177, 178, 252, 276
Fraser, Antonia, 127
Freud, Sigmund, 276
Friedman, Budd, 119
Fritchey, Clayton, 40
Frommer, Arthur, 62
From the Earth to the Moon (TV), 254
Front Page, The (play), 238
Furman, Roy, 47–49
Gable, Clark, 253
Gale, June, 37
Gallin, Sandy, 244
Gandhi, Mohandas K. “Mahatma,” 42
Garten, Ina, 264–66
Garten, Jeffrey, 264
Geffen, David, 11, 76, 81, 112, 141, 247, 249
George & Martha (TV pilot), 248
Get Shorty (movie), 215
Gilder, George, Naked Nomads, 164
Gingrich, Arnold, 94–95, 97, 98
Glaser, Milton, 198
Gobel, George, 64
Godfather, The (movie), 181
Goldberg, Whoopi, 163
Goldstein, Ken, 39–40
Goldwater, Barry, 54
Goodfellas (movie), 181–82
Goodman, Walter, 173
Goodwin, Richard N. “Dick,” 97–98
Gottlieb, Robert, 81, 150–51, 152, 153, 220, 223
Graduate, The (movie), 112
Graham, Donald, 229
Graham, Katharine, 51, 54–55, 131, 137, 229
Graham, Philip L., 51
Grant, Cary, 30, 238, 254, 271
Grant, Lee, 197
Gravano, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull,” 181
and Heartburn, 159–60
How to Be a Jewish Mother, 21, 69
and Nora, 21–23, 52, 69–71, 85, 159
Greenburg, Nora (nom de plume), 62
Greenfield, Meg, 131
Gregory, Dick, 64
Griffin, Merv, 119
Groom, Winston, 252
Grossman, Lynn, 79, 122, 202, 212
Grunwald, Henry, 279
Grunwald, Louise, 279
Guare, John, 164
Guber, Lee, 23
Hall, Evelyn, 31
Hamilton, Alexander, 60
Hamlisch, Marvin, 213, 232, 233
Hammett, Dashiell, 225, 231, 234
Hanging Up (movie), 214–15
Hanks, Tom, 111, 190–92, 202, 217
and Bonfire of the Vanities, 199
and dinner parties, 73, 184, 252
and McAlary/Lucky Guy, 238, 239, 240, 253–57
and Nora’s memorial, 180, 280, 281
and Sleepless in Seattle, 6, 190–92, 198, 199, 200, 255, 271
and You’ve Got Mail, 171, 177, 200, 253
Hardison, Kadeem, 6
Harpies, The, 12
Hart, Gary, 94
Hart, Moss, 33
Hartley, L. P., 46
Harwood, Richard, 145
Hayes, Harold, 88
Heartburn (Ephron/book):
and controversy, 156–57, 159–60
and dinner parties, 139, 140, 147
humor/anger in, 90, 129, 147, 188
sales of, 223
Heartburn (movie), 9, 85, 155–56, 157, 161–62, 170–74, 217
Hecht, Ben, 238
Hedren, Tippi, 62–63
Heffner, Hugh, 22
Heller, Joseph, Catch-22, 112
Hellman, Lillian, 225–32
blacklisting of, 231
HUAC testimony of, 227, 230, 231
and Imaginary Friends, 68, 226, 234, 258
Hemingway, Ernest, 32, 59, 92, 95, 104
Henry, Buck, 70
Hersh, Seymour, 132–33
Higgins, Marguerite, 235–36, 238, 269
Hill, George Roy, 132
His Girl Friday (movie), 238
Hitchcock, Alfred, 63
Hitchens, Christopher, 274–75
Hitch-Hiker, The (movie), 196
Hoffman, Philip Seymour, 239
Hoge, James, 165
Hoge, Warren, 23
Hollywood:
female directors in, 6–7, 166–67, 173, 190, 196–201, 202
Hollywood Ten, 37
Honsa, Carol, 20
Hoover, J. Edgar, 54
Horowitz, Craig, 160
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 26, 37, 226, 227, 230, 231
Howar, Barbara, 23
Howard, Roy, 60
Howie (play), 36–37
Huffington Post, 16
ICM, 215
I Married a Witch (movie), 217
Irving, David, 275
Irving, John, 252
“Fox Here,” 161
Isham, Jennifer Maguire, 12
Ives, Burl, 209
Jaws (movie), 72
Jay, Margaret, 143–44, 145–46, 151, 157
Joe Versus the Volcano (movie), 191
Johnson, Lyndon B., 13, 54, 65, 97
journalism:
and access, 110–11
as a job, 58–59
author as columnist, 134–36, 176, 188, 194
clip jobs, 64
feminism in, 130
gender discrimination in, 54–55
observers in, 114
rules in, 61
Juanita (pen pal), 203–5
Julia (movie), 225
Julie & Julia (movie), 173, 174, 183, 205, 236, 266, 268, 271–72
Just, Ward, 52–53
Kael, Pauline, 133
Kaufman, George S., 31, 33–34, 36
Keach, Stacy, 70
Keane, Margaret, 89
Kearns, Doris, 97–98
Keller, Thomas, 140
Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted,” 97
Kennedy, John F., 26, 40, 51, 58, 97, 107–8, 229
and Making of the President, 102
Kenyatta, Jomo, 54
Kerr, Deborah, 271
King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr., 46
Kogan, Deborah Copaken, Shutterbabe, 81
Kosner, Edward, 57
Kramer vs. Kramer (movie), 118
Kseniak, Beth, 12
Kudrow, Lisa, 268
Lahr, John, 114
Lake, Veronica, 217
Lansing, Sherry, 198
Lapine, James, 265
Larry Crowne (movie), 255
“Lavender’s Blue” (song), 209–11
Lawrenson, Helen:
“A Few Words on Fellatio,” 92
“Latins Are Lousy Lovers,” 92
Lazar, Samuel “Swifty,” 169
Lear, Norman, 252
Lee, Peggy, 241
Leighton, Isabel, ed., The Aspirin Age, 254
Lelouch, Claude, 191
Leo, John, 79
Lerner, Max, 58
LeRoy, Warner, 252
Lessing, Doris, 263
Letterman, David, 13
Levant, Oscar, 37
Levy, Emanuel, 214–15
Lewinsky, Monica, 73
Lincoln, Abraham, 274
Lindsay, John V., 260
Los Angeles Times, 24
Lospalutto, Christopher, 221, 277–78
Lotkin, Louis, 38
Lourd, Bryan, 215, 216, 239, 256–57, 258, 266
Love Affair (movie), 271
Love Me or Leave Me (movie remake), xi
Lucky Numbers (movie), 215, 268–69
Luedtke, Kurt, 252
Lumet, Sidney, 252
Lupino, Ida, 196
MacArthur, Charles, 238
Mad Men (TV), 255
Malle, Louis, 164
Maraniss, David, They Marched into Sunlight, 254
March, Fredric, 217
Margaret, Princess, 64
Mark, Laurence, 266
Martin, Steve, 73, 111, 199–200, 214, 245
Marx Brothers, 36
Matthiessen, Peter, 161
McAlary, Mike, 218, 237–40, 242, 253, 255, 257–58, 261–62, 263
McCarthy, Jeanne, 12
McCarthy, Joseph, 230
The Group, 231
and Imaginary Friends, 68, 226, 234
McCarthy era, 34, 60, 83–84, 226–27, 230
McCauley, James, 3
McCormack, John, 54
McEwan, Ian, 275
McFadden, Cynthia, 12
McGovern, George, 25–26, 90, 93, 94
McKelway, St. Clair, 32
McNamara, Robert S., 54
Medavoy, Mike, 191
Meet the Press, 185
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 241, 246
Meyer, Eugene, 51
Miami Herald, 24
Michaels, Lorne, 33
Midonick, Millard L., 123
Miller, Arthur, 164
Minnelli, Liza, 163
Mixed Nuts (movie), 6, 199–200, 214, 245
Moley, Raymond, 54
Moore, Demi, 197
Mostel, Zero, 163
Murdoch, Rupert, 229
Murray, Bill, 189
Mussolini, Benito, 178
Nation, 226
National Review, 106
Navasky, Victor, 51–52, 58, 60, 65, 69, 252
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 42
Nesbit, Lynn, 52
Newfield, Jack, 260
Newhart, Bob, 201–2
Newman, Mildred, 121–22, 152, 159–60
Newman, Paul, 163
Newsday, 237
clip jobs in, 64
gender discrimination in, 54–55
Nora as mail girl for, 50–51, 55
Nora as researcher for, 55, 56
Nora’s first story for, 56
New York:
magical nights in, 212
newspaper strike in, 57–58
Nora’s move to, 52, 148–49, 150, 151, 182
writers in, 29–30
and Nora’s loss to Quinn, 129
and Yom Kippur War, 103, 104, 106
New York Aquarium, 62
New York Daily News, 263
New Yorker, 14, 32, 49, 133, 161, 183, 191, 244
New York Herald Tribune, 34, 53, 236
New York Hospital, 246, 248–50, 278, 279
New York Post, 10, 22, 23, 259, 265
Nora’s job at, 57–67, 237, 261
“Woman in the News,” 63
New York Times, 7, 9, 23, 24, 34, 37, 61, 87, 97, 107, 132, 173, 220, 233, 234, 265
New York Times Book Review, 150, 226
New York Times Magazine, 112, 122
Nichols, Mike, 112–17
and Catch-22, 112, 115, 122, 201
and dinner parties, 70, 112, 115–16
and friendship, 81, 111, 112, 113, 115–16, 151
and Heartburn, 155, 156, 162, 172
and Hellman, 231–32
and Imaginary Friends, 232
and McAlary/Lucky Guy, 240, 258
and Nora as director, 166–67, 168–69, 196
and Nora’s illness and death, 116–17, 249, 273, 277, 280
and Silkwood, 166, 167, 168–69
Nicholson, Jack, 167, 172, 173
Nissenson, Marilyn, The Lady Upstairs, 57
Nixon, Richard M., 21, 24, 25–26, 90, 98, 134, 230
Nora Ephron Repertory Company, 189
Norton, Ed, 239
O’Brien, Jack, 232–33
Obst, David, 132
Oh, God! (movie), 119
Oprah Winfrey Show, The (TV), 221–24, 279
Paltrow, Gwyneth, 252
Paolucci’s, New York, 260–61
Partisan Review, 227
Parton, Dolly, 90–91
Pascal, Amy, 198
Patinkin, Mandy, 172
Patterson, Jennifer, 212
Pavarotti, Luciano, 268
Peer, Liz, 50
Penn, Sean, 239
Perkins, Maxwell, 22
Perl, Maurie, 12
Peron, Eva, 75
Philadelphia (movie), 190
Philadelphia Inquirer, 24
Phillips, B. J., 168
Pileggi, Nicholas, ix–x, 175–86, 254
family background of, 177–78
marriage of Nora and, 15, 81, 170–71, 175–76, 185–86, 207, 212, 251–52, 261–62, 272
meeting of Nora and, 182–83
and the Mob, 179–80, 181, 183, 262
and Nora’s illness and death, 279, 280, 281
and Paolucci’s, 260–61
socializing, 11
Wiseguy, 180
as writing partner, xi
Pileggi, Nicholas (father), 177
Pileggi, Susan (mother), 177–78
Pill, The, 53
Pinter, Harold, 127
Playboy Magazine Writers Conference, 21–22, 69
Plimpton, George, 161
Pogrebin, Abigail, Stars of David, 107
Pollack, Sydney, 132
Portis, Charles, 52–53
Poston, Theodore Roosevelt, 60
Povich, Lynn, 55
Powell, Julie, 271
Cleaving: A story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, 272
Prentiss, Paula, 122
Presley, Elvis, 120
Public Theater, New York, xi, 258
Quaid, Dennis, 184
Quinn, Gen. William “Buffalo Bill,” 141
on being blond, 130
and Bradlee, 128–29
and CBS Morning News, 128, 129–30
socializing with, 146–47, 252, 264
and Washington Post, 23, 128, 129, 130
“We’re Going to Make You a Star,” 129
and When Harry Met Sally, 187
Rahv, Philip, 227
Rauh, Joseph, Jr., 227
Reagan, Ronald, 106
Redford, Robert, 132–33
Reed, Rex, 121
Reiner, Estelle, 193
Reiner, Rob, 187–88, 192, 193, 195
Remnick, David, 244
Resnick, Adam, 268
Rich, Frank, 264–65
Ridgeway, James, 27
Rinaldi, Nicholas D., 136
Robards, Jason, 134
Robb, Lynda Bird and Charles, 65
Rockefeller, David, 246
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 54
Roiphe, Katie, The Violet Hour, 276
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 35, 60
Rose, Marshall, 76
Ross, Lillian, 32–33
Rossellini, Roberto, 111
Rudd, Hughes, 129
Rushdie, Salman, 275
Russell, Rosalind, 238
Russert, Tim, 186
and Higgins and Beech, 236
and Joe Versus the Volcano, 191
and Sleepless in Seattle, 190, 191, 200, 202, 253, 271
and When Harry Met Sally, 188, 190, 192–93, 194
and You’ve Got Mail, 171, 200, 253
Sacha, J.J., 13–14, 237, 249, 277, 278, 280
Safire, William, 24
St. Clair, James, 98
Salon, 218
Salter, James, 161
A Sport and a Pastime, 276
Sann, Paul, 59
Sarandon, Susan, 222
Sarton, May, 45–46
Saturday Night Live (TV), 33
Saturday Review, 94
Saving Private Ryan (movie), 236, 254
Scheider, Roy, 163
Scheinman, Andy, 188
Schell, Maximilian, 222
Schiff, Dorothy, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 67, 101, 158
Schiff, Jacob, 60
Schlesinger, Arthur, 22
Schlink, Bernhard, 114
Schumacher, Joel, 122
Scorsese, Martin, 181
Segal, Erich, 210
Seidel, Frederick, “Remembering Elaine’s,” 182
She Loves Me (musical), 271
Sherr, Lynn, 44–45, 49, 63, 94, 106
Shop Around the Corner, The (movie), 270
Short, Nancy Dolman, 81
Siegal, Peggy, 12
Silkwood, Karen, 163, 164–65, 167–69
Silkwood (movie), 165–69, 182, 198, 207
Simon, Neil, 121
The Goodbye Girl, 167
Sleepless in Seattle (movie), 133, 253
and Hanks, 190–92, 198, 199, 200, 202, 255, 271
Nora as director on, 6, 30, 183, 189, 197–99, 200, 202, 205, 210, 236, 271
Nora as screenwriter on, 169, 205
and Ward, 197–98
Smith, Betty, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 109–10
Smith, Jean Kennedy, 246
Smith, Will, 173
Snider, Stacey, 198
Snyder, William, The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker, 104–5
So Dear to My Heart (movie), 209
Sokolow, Sandy, 129
Some Like It Hot (movie), 113
Sophie’s Choice (movie), 167
Spielberg, Sasha, 206, 207, 208
Spielberg, Steven, 12, 72, 111, 184, 200, 203, 218, 236, 247
Spitzler, Robert, 61
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 35, 167
Starr, Ken, 73
Steel, Dawn, 198
Steinbeck, John, 228
Stern, Isaac, 252
Sterne, Patti, 90–91
Stewart, James, 254
Stone, Lucy, 35
Stone, Peter, 252
Stoppard, Tom, 275
Stories About McAlary (film property), 218, 255
Streep, Meryl, 14–15, 189, 233
and Julie and Julia, 173, 174, 205, 236, 271
on Nora as director, 173, 200–201
and Nora’s memorial, 280
and Silkwood, 165, 167–68, 169
Stringer, Howard, 182–83, 212–13, 268, 270
Stringer, Jennifer, 182
Stubbs, Barbara, 20, 28, 90, 121, 145, 149, 151, 185, 186
marriage breakup, 152–53
Sullivan, Ed, 111
Take Her, She’s Mine (play), 44, 158
Tauger, Hallie Ephron, 212
Tauger, Molly, 212
Taylor, Elizabeth, 63
Thatcher, Margaret, 143
The Thin Man (TV), 269
This Is My Life (movie), 189–90, 207, 214
Thomas, Evan, Sr., 150
Tomlin, Lily, 163
Toohey, John Peter, 34
Toute une vie [And Now My Love] (movie), 191
Travolta, John, 173, 214, 215, 268
Trillin, Calvin “Bud,” 22, 52, 60, 203
Tripp, Linda, 73
Unger, Rusty, 148
United Press International, 110, 178
Urban, Amanda “Binky” [Auletta], 52, 81, 152, 182, 183, 184, 185, 279
Urban, Margo, 278
Vargas, Alberto, 93
Variety, 214
Varnhagen, Rahel, 68
Vidal, Gore, 21–22
Vonnegut, Kurt, 22
Vox, Tristan (nom de plume), 156
Wakefield, Dan, 58
Walters, Barbara, 12, 18, 23, 233, 252
Ward, David S., 197–98
Warner, Jack, 35
Washington, D.C., Nora in, 125–28, 131
and All the President’s Men, 133, 134
author’s work with, ix, 20, 65, 95, 111, 127, 136, 194
and Bernstein, ix, 20, 21, 25, 26, 90, 156
and Bradlee, 21, 51, 53, 134, 135
Wechsler, James, 59
Wellesley College, 42–49, 101, 106, 158, 231
Wellesley College News, 44–45, 106
West, Nathanael, The Day of the Locust, 30
What’s My Line? (TV), 72
When Harry Met Sally (movie), 245
cast of, 190
iconic line in, 193
Nora as screenwriter on, 169, 188, 192
as “Nora Ephron movie,” 194–95, 215, 236
and Reiner, 187–88, 192, 193, 195
White, Theodore H., The Making of the President 1960, 102
“White Christmas” (song), 211, 213
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), 31, 112
Wieseltier, Leon, 156
Wilder, Billy, 113
Williams, G. Mennen, 52
Williams, Robin, 163
Willis, Bruce, 197
Wilson, Edmund, 227
Wilson, Rita, 190, 202, 252, 267
and Nora’s illness, 263–64
and Nora’s memorial, 180, 280, 281
and Sleepless in Seattle, 199
Winfrey, Oprah, 221–22, 223–24, 279
Winkler, Irwin, 181
Witcover, Jules, 134
Witherspoon, Reese, 241
Wolfe, George, 257–58, 260, 261, 281
Wolkind, Harold, 38
Wolkind, Louis, 38
Wolkind, Phoebe, see Ephron, Phoebe
Wolkind, Richard “Dickie,” 38
Woodard, Alfre, 222
Woodward, Bob, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 121, 132–34, 181
Woolf, Virginia, 263
Woollcott, Alexander, 34
Writers Guild Pen Pal project, 203–5
Wynn, Elaine, 76–77
“You Made Me Love You” (song), 210
You’ve Got Mail (movie), 210
Hanks and Ryan in, 171, 177, 200, 253
Nora as director of, 13, 148, 171, 199, 200, 205, 214, 236
sources of, 270–71
Yusupov, Prince Felix, 265, 267
Zabar, Rachel, 171
Zacharek, Stephanie, 218
Ziegfeld, Florence, Jr. “Flo,” 31
Zion, Sidney, 58
Zuckerman, Mortimer, 47