Gentrification of the neighborhood. The upbringing of children became a new ritual compared to the Cartesian understanding of possession or not of other times. Feeling living in a world that doesn’t belong to you, growing old, your efforts to process new codes are in vain because you can’t get rid of technological advances. it is possible all the troubles of the modern city dweller had already happened in New York a few decades ago, and even more so, at one point Nora Ephron had told them. In books like ‘I don’t like my neck’ republished in Spanish by Libros del Asteroid, like ‘I don’t remember anything’ or ‘Ensalada Loca’ (Anagrama) by the same publisher.
As a screenwriter and/or director of films such as “When Harry Met Sally”, “You have an email” or “Julie & Julia”. Nora Ephron has told or fictionalized her ups and downs with grace, lightness and style. His mother used to call him “Everything is a copy”., a screenwriter like his father, both alcoholics, a remake of a family tragedy is now comedy. “People laugh at you when you step on a banana peel; But when I say I slipped on a banana peel, you’re the one who smiles. That’s how you stop being the hero of the joke instead of the victim.”, wrote Ephron.
Nora Ephron has laughed at everything her whole life. even the legendary horns that her second husband, journalist Carl Berstein, wore on herwith Bob Woodward, one of the architects of the Watergate case that ousted Richard Nixon from the US presidency. A heavily pregnant Ephron met her husband’s mistress’ husband for lunch at a Chinese restaurant.
Oh, Peter, I told him. “Isn’t it terrible?” “Terrible,” he admits. “What’s wrong with him in this country?” I’m crying, hysterical and at the same time I think one day this will be a funny anecdote”, admits Ephron, ‘I don’t like my neck. He decides to write a novel based on his experiences. The British ambassador, who replaces her first husband’s cats with hamsters, is a foreign secretary and camouflages Bernstein by growing a beard. Post the result ‘Pasta Over’ will be a movie with the lead role. Meryl Streepclose friend of the author and Jack Nicholson. Carl Bernstein signed the divorce on the condition that his ex refrain from questioning him as a father in his creations.
Long before Beyoncé released ‘Lemonade’ inspired by Jay Z’s infidelities, Nora Ephron was already making lemonade with the bitterest things in life. Not surprising considering that even her college adventures were made into a movie starring Sandra Dee, courtesy of her family of two screenwriters. brutally transported from New York to Beverly Hills He has only five years to polish his professional career. All four Ephron sisters devoted themselves to writing.
Nora Ephron, who started her career as a journalist, says in “I Don’t Like My Neck”, “I don’t understand how a person can write fiction when things in real life are so baffling.” Unlike other contemporaries like Joan Didion, she always chose a funny tone: He has been compared to a female Tom Wolfe, but is more reminiscent of Woody Allen due to his devotion and mood to New York.. Faced with mourning, the left-wing intellectual still fashionable in Europe, she shamelessly presents herself as a woman, a bourgeois, and a materialist.
In “I Don’t Like My Neck,” Ephron admits he’s willing to pay anything he can to keep his dream West Side apartment. Preserve the beauty of your youth without sacrificing hairdressing and cosmetics. He’s strangely curious that he might be the only White House intern to whom JFK has never made a shady offer, but his trials have come of age: maybe his perm is a staple of his wardrobe, or the fact that he’s Jewish, she laments. While the episode “JFK and Me: Now I Can Tell” was squeaky-worthy back in the days of Me Too, Like all the classics it will return from time to time.
In ‘I Don’t Like My Neck’, published in 2006, just six years before his death, the author reflects on aging and concludes: “It’s sad to go through the sixties. Everything is long shadows: friends die or get sick. A veil of melancholy surrounds you.
She would die in 2012 at the age of 71 from acute myeloid leukemia, which only her closest circle of friends knew suffered from, her third and last husband, Nicholas Pileggi, and half a dozen friends. “You can’t turn a deadly disease into a joke. It’s about the only revelation that makes you the victim, not the hero of your story. For him, tragedy was a pit of stereotypes, ”said his son Jacob Bernstein, after his death he thought about why he kept his illness a secret. At the height of the epidemic, the American edition of Vogue posed a question: How would Nora handle this?. It is always appropriate to summon him in dark times.