figure in 2015 Nora Efron Beyond its loyal fan club, it has again caught the attention of the public. With the premiere of the documentary about everything is copyruled by his son Jacob BernsteinIn , many journalists took advantage of the tape’s reviews to bring their hero to the present after years of discontinued headlines. The publishing house Libros del Asteroide had a good eye for publishing the book of articles. i don’t remember anything in June 2022. The turmoil in the bookstores was so great that it didn’t take long for Anagrama to get the books back. crazy salad And the cake is finished. The icing on the cake has been put once again by the cosmic editorial. i don’t like my neckAnother anthology of articles received with applause.
It is no coincidence that companies trying to reclaim the Ephron figure in the media are women. Throughout her career, the American handled women’s issues with such irony, intelligence and style that it happened feminist sign guide for many women. Adjectives describing him can also be used for another nearly forgotten author who deserves the same attention: Carmen Rico Godoy. He developed his career in Spanish media, publishers and film sets during the same period and became one of the most admired writers in the country during his active period. The Spaniard is Nora Ephron (or vice versa).
“I have a great fond memory for Carmen, and I think we’ll hear from her again someday. Life happens, we all get lost and then some come back. Writer and journalist Maruja Torres, who has been a colleague and friend of hers for many years, shares her irony, humor, and wickedness with her. “I think she’s a character that needs to be reevaluated because of her mood, I loved her.”
The dedication to the same profession as her mother after trying other professions is just one of the many things Rico-Godoy’s biography has in common with Nora Ephron’s. They both studied Political Science, were successful in their own careers, married several times, were journalists, columnists, and screenwriters, circulated in circles of power, used their lives as inspiration (each in their own way) and became them. walked the same way. AND they both made the flag of humor. “What makes me think of Rico-Godoy as the Nora Ephron of this place is that beyond situational similarities, grace, speed, and the use of self and little everyday misfortunes as a matter of business and self-explanatory turn into comedy,” she says. by Aloma Rodríguez.
“Both share a passion for reversing the stereotype with humor; the stereotype is the hallmark of the woman of the society they live in,” says Andrea Toribio, co-director of the literary podcast. you are friend With Rodriguez. “It’s very difficult to humor or make the most of something that was funny from the start for a section of the population, namely men, when it could be an embarrassment or ridicule for women.”
parallel lives
Carmen Rico-Godoy was born in Paris in 1939. His mother had fled Spain due to the Civil War, and his father, José Rico Godoy, was in prison. When he came out in 1944, the family was reunited in Madrid, and ten years later, Carabias became the first Hispanic reporter in the United States and they moved. During this time, and until he returned to Paris in 1967, influenced by his mother’s work, Rico-Godoy graduated from Georgetown University (Washington) with a BA in Political Science. She continued her education in France and majored in International Relations, began working as a journalist and met her only son, Argentine first husband José Luis Garsino, with whom she has been married for only a few years. They lived in Argentina for that short time, but in 1970 she settled permanently in Spain without her husband anymore.
Nora Ephron was born to successful Hollywood screenwriter parents in 1941 in New York City. Determined to be the Dorothy Parker of her generation, she began writing at a very early age and graduated in Political Science from Wesley College in Massachusetts in 1962. In 1967 she married her first husband, Dan Greenburg, from whom she separated nine years later. While Ephron’s emotional life is vox populi, the Spanish woman’s first husband’s name, for example, hardly appears in her biographical profiles. Both took their reality to shape their work, but Rico-Godoy was more discreet.
“He was known for his work, not personally.. “I want to say that there is no media in the current sense,” says Nativel Preciado, journalist, author and close friend of Carmen Rico-Godoy. “It appeared a lot in the print media and on the radio, but not on television. You had to get to know him to appreciate his personality. He seemed more distant from the start,” she continues. He explains that he “has a weird sense of humor,” who is very close to her. She was a self-critical, perfectionist, witty, quick-witted, and loving person.”
Although in an interview given to the daily newspaper in 2001 A B C, Carmen Rico-Gody enthusiastically practiced her profession with the phrase “I’ve never had a profession for journalism or anything, just curiosity”. She became part of the founding team in 1971. change 16Transition’s flagship magazine, where he honed his excellence as a political historian (they met in the anthology years later). Under the Moncloa ficus) those who practice in other media as well. “In my season change 16, it helped me a lot because the kids were scared of her as usual, and they said, ‘Watch out for Carmen!’ they said. Men don’t know that women like women, especially smart ones,” recalls Maruja Torres. Since Rico-Godoy is related to the world of cinema and the Barcelona journalist is also frames. “I met her when I went to write history in Mallorca in the summers and she was always so gracious,” he comments.
Nora Ephron was a reporter for five years. New York Postwhere he writes about politics and anything that touches him. He later had a column in Esquire where he talked about topics. feminine. one of his deliveries Some observations about breasts (collected in crazy salad) was just a few years ahead of her, but it definitely brought her to journalism stardom. Her marriage to Carl Bernstein, one of the reporters of the Watergate case. This union was decisive for her career, as her husband’s infidelity when she was pregnant with her second child prompted her to write the novel. the cake is finished (1983) gave a frenzied boost to his career and made him famous.
The book was adapted for the big screen, starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson, and written by her. The same thing happened in Carmen Rico-Godoy’s first novel. Being a woman and not dying trying in 1990. It was a real bombshell and its legendary paperback edition is included in the collection. parrot de Temas de hoy, the cover of which was drawn by José Manuel García López, is still on the shelves of many Spanish homes, already somewhat dilapidated after many readings. Nativel Preciado comments by the author: “He was surprised at his initial literary success, stunned by the popularity of his work.”
Her book was also filmed under the direction and script of Ana Belén., with Carmen Maura and Antonio Resines in the lead roles. The name of her second husband, Andrés Vicente Gómez Montero, a member of LolaFilms, is featured in the production. It was the author’s first work to be adapted into a film, followed by adaptations. How to be unhappy and enjoy it (1994) and Heaven is not what it used to be (2000). He also worked with Fernando Colomo and on its adaptation. ulloa’s pazos for RTVE. Ephron followed the careers of his parents and wrote the scripts for several films, some of which he also directed, sometimes with his sister Delia. you have an email (1998) or damned (2000). He has also produced plays for Broadway and Off-Broadway.
In 2006 Ephron was diagnosed with leukemia and kept it a secret until his death six years later, but in 2010 Ephron published a farewell list entitled. things i will missstarting with “my children” and ending with “las tartas” ( i don’t remember anything). He passed away in 2012 at the age of 71.
As for Carmen Rico-Godoy, Maruja Torres says: “She also left gracefully. He invited me to lunch for the last time because he had a terrible cancer. I was so skinny and actually I was the only one eating. We were showing it to both of us, knowing that it wasn’t goodbye, it was. In addition to saying goodbye to your loved ones, He bid farewell to his readers with his novel. party break. She was just 62 years old and had just split from her husband, following the famous advice of her American equivalent: “Never marry a man you don’t want to divorce.” They may become friends in a hypothetical afterlife.