{"id":855,"date":"2012-06-27T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/06\/27\/writer-director-nora-ephron-dies-at-age-71\/"},"modified":"2012-06-27T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:15:00","slug":"writer-director-nora-ephron-dies-at-age-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/06\/27\/writer-director-nora-ephron-dies-at-age-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer\/Director Nora Ephron dies at age 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-MhqRhfpY4dI\/T-qIJGPseyI\/AAAAAAAABWs\/q-yncgHe3QE\/s1600\/Nora-Ephron-003.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-MhqRhfpY4dI\/T-qIJGPseyI\/AAAAAAAABWs\/q-yncgHe3QE\/s400\/Nora-Ephron-003.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><strong>Nora Ephron<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">, the writer and director responsible for some of the most charming movies in recent memory, passed away Tuesday at the age of 71 from a bout with leukemia. In her illustrious career, Ephron wrote<\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><em>Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally<\/em><\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><em>My Blue Heaven<\/em><\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">&nbsp;as well as wrote and directed<\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><em>&nbsp;Sleepless in Seattle, You\u2019ve Got Mail, Michael<\/em><\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">&nbsp;and most recently&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><em>Julie and Julia<\/em><\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: x-small\">Excerpted from <\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/writerdirector-nora-ephron-passes-71\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slash Film<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">Nora Ephron&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-nora-ephron-20120627,0,4888846.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obituary in the LA Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">These titles are available for checkout from the Media Services Home Use Collection:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0086312\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silkwood<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"> &#8211; HU DVD 1647 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Writer)<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0098635\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">When Harry Met Sally<\/a> &#8211; HU DVD 4936 <span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Written by)<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0108160\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sleepless in Seattle<\/a> &#8211; 7214<span style=\"font-size: x-small\"> (Director, Screenwriter)<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1135503\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julie and Julia<\/a> &#8211; HU DVD 7096 <span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Director, Screenwriter)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nora Ephron, the writer and director responsible for some of the most charming movies in recent memory, passed away Tuesday at the age of 71 from a bout with leukemia. In her illustrious career, Ephron wroteSilkwood, When Harry Met Sally&nbsp;and&nbsp;My Blue Heaven&nbsp;as well as wrote and directed&nbsp;Sleepless in Seattle, You\u2019ve Got Mail, Michael&nbsp;and most recently&nbsp;Julie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}