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June 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“At some point, your luck is going to run out … You are very aware with
friends getting sick that it can end in a second,” Ephron told Reuters
in a 2010 interview while promoting the book.
The elegant Ephron, known for habitually dressing in black, urged aging
friends and readers to make the most of their lives.
“You should eat delicious things while you can still eat them, go to
wonderful places while you still can … and not have evenings where you say
to yourself, ‘What am I doing here? Why am I here? I am bored witless!'”
she told Reuters.
She began her career as a journalist but transitioned into movies, leaving
behind a legacy of more than a dozen films, often featuring strong female
characters, that she either wrote, produced or directed. She was nominated
for three Academy Awards for “When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless
in Seattle” and the drama “Silkwood” with Meryl Streep
playing an anti-nuclear activist.
Other romantic comedies included “You’ve Got Mail,” starring Meg
Ryan, and her last film “Julie Julia” in 2009, which had
Streep portraying the fearless celebrity cook Julia Child.
Ephron also wrote for the stage, authoring the 2002 play “Imaginary
Friends” about the rivalry of authors Mary McCarthy and Lillian
Hellman, and “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” with her sister Delia,
in 2009.
Born May 19, 1941 in New York City and raised in Beverly Hills by screenwriter
parents, Ephron worked briefly as a White House intern before going into
journalism. She quickly became known as a humorist with essays on subjects
ranging from food and fashion to feminism.
She started in the entertainment industry while married to her second husband,
The Washington Post’s famed Watergate investigative reporter Carl Bernstein.
She helped rewrite a version of the script for the movie “All The
President’s Men,” about Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s uncovering of the
political scandal that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Although that screenplay was not used, it led to a TV movie screenwriting
job for Ephron.
Her big movie break came after a messy divorce from Bernstein, which was the
genesis for her 1983 novel “Heartburn” that she later adapted into
the bittersweet hit film of the same name starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl
Streep.
That film ushered in a string of box office successes in the late 1980s and
1990s, including “When Harry Met Sally,” “Michael” with
John Travolta, “Sleepless in Seattle” and “You’ve Got Mail,”
that saw Ephron gradually add producer and director to her resume and become
one of Hollywood’s most successful makers of romantic comedies.
Although her movies raked in tens of millions of dollars at box offices
worldwide, Ephron never won the industry’s highest honor, an Academy Award.
After box office flops “Hanging Up” and “Lucky Numbers” in
2000, Ephron focused on essays, writing for the stage, and blogging for the
online news site The Huffington Post.
Her humorous 2006 collection “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other
Thoughts on Being a Woman” became a bestseller on the New York Times
list.
At the time of her death, Ephron had a biographical movie about singer Peggy
Lee in development that was due to star Reese Witherspoon, according to the
Internet movie website, IMDB.com.
Ephron was married three times and is survived by her husband of more than 20
years, writer Nicholas Pileggi, and two children with Bernstein.
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