Saw someone speculate that Nora's name is an homage to Nora Ephron. She began her writing career as a journalist and essayist for the New York Post and Esquire, and then began writing screenplays and novels, such as the drama "Silkwood"', the semi. Biography: Nora Ephron was born in New York City to playwrights and screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron (Desk Set Carousel There's No Business Like Show Business), and raised in Beverly Hills, California. Nora also made contributions as a co-author. She bagged BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for 'When Harry Met Sally' and was also nominated thrice for the Academy Award for Best Writing. Nora Ephron was a notable American screenwriter, producer, director, journalist, playwright, essayist and a blogger renowned for her romantic comedy. And like most diehard romantic comedy fans - if you'll permit me to be a curmudgeon for a moment - I also believe the genre had its heyday in the 90's, mostly due to Nora Ephron, writer and director of such classics as Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, and You've Got Mail.
She was 71.I am an unabashed lover of romantic comedies. Nora Ephron.Nora Ephron, an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold (only smarter and funnier, some said) who became one of her era's most successful screenwriters and filmmakers, making romantic comedy hits like "Sleepless in Seattle" and "When Harry Met Sally…," died on Tuesday night in Manhattan. Incisive, witty, and incredibly smart, Ephron left behind journalism, essays, movies, and plays when she died a decade ago. Fieldstone is a reference to the radio host in Sleepless in Seattle?Nora Ephron was magical.
Definitely some references throughout such as watching You've got Mail while eating a box of snookers. Nora Ephron, the Oscar-nominated film-maker behind romantic comedies When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle has died, aged 71. In grammar school, in the fifth and sixth grades, we were all tyrannized by a rigid set of rules that supposedly. I have to begin with a few words about androgyny.