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Remembering Nora Ephron as Our Dorothy Parker, but More

Nora Ephron was our Dorothy Parker but so much more, writes screenwriter and friend Stephen Schiff. He salutes her wonderful films, impeccable taste, and versatile strength to the end. Plus, Nancy Hass on how Ephron never stopped, and Joan Juliet Buck on being in awe of Nora.

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Nora Ephron was our Dorothy Parker—except Nora did more, and with less strife. Her whip-snapping wit, like Parker’s, came from an insistence on the truth, and on making the digging for that truth fun.

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