• 'Julie & Julia' a hearty laugh Aug 14, 2009
Written/Directed by: Nora Ephron ... The film, written and directed by Nora Ephron ("You've Got Mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle"), is based on the book by Julie Powell, which was inspired by the blog Powell decided to write on a whim. (Juneau Empire)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, trailblazerwho improved lives of disabled, dies Aug 12, 2009
In 1966, she received the Lasker Public Service Award, and in a profile that year for the New York Post, then-journalist and now filmmaker Nora Ephron captured Mrs. Shriver in a pair of adjective-laden sentences. Eunice Shriver is all the things that Kennedy women are - long, lean, athletic, toothy, pearl-necklaced, prolific, clannish, energetic. (Boston Globe)
Streep marries her art with newfound fun Aug 11, 2009
As early as 1987 s Heartburn, Streep was playing comparatively lighter roles (there coincidentally as a thinly disguised version of Nora Ephron, her Julie & Julia director). She spent the 1990s trying on different hats, gamely essaying splattery special-effects comedy ( Death Becomes Her, 1992), grim action ( The River Wild, 1994), and paperback romance ( The Bridges of Madison County, 1995), followed by a handful of heart-tugging dramas like Marvin s Room (1996), One True Thing (1998), and... (Boston Globe)
Interview: Stephen Sommers gets last laugh Aug 11, 2009
BFD: Despite the big opening, mainstream press didnt show you near the love given Nora Ephron or Kathryn Bigelow ... BFD: Arent you a little jealous, when the New York Times fawns over Nora Ephron and her new movie and trash yours. (Variety)
Edelstein on the Bedazzling Meryl Streep Aug 10, 2009
Writer-director Nora Ephron cuts back and forth between Paris in the '50s and Queens, New York, in 2002, where blogger Julie Powell spent a year laboring to make all 500+ recipes in Child's classic "Mastering the Art of French Cooking.". Ephron wants to show how both women achieved emotional autonomy in the kitchen, and Amy Adams is lovely. (CBS News)
'A Perfect Getaway' is no vacation Aug 8, 2009
Writer-director Nora Ephron has woven together the real-life stories of two women separated by decades and a body of water but connected by a love of food and a quest for identity. One is Julia Child (Meryl Streep), the larger-than-life TV cook and author who inspired untold numbers of ambitious gourmands to embrace French cuisine the way she had. (Fresno Bee)
Movie capsules Aug 8, 2009
Julie & Julia The easiest thing Nora Ephron has ever done with a movie. Half the film is spent with Meryl Streep as Julia Child in France in 1949. (Boston Globe)
Review: 'Julie & Julia' Cooks Near-Perfect Recipe Aug 8, 2009
Cleverly crafted by writer-director Nora Ephron, the story connects two lives although the two women never meet. Based on Julie Powell's 2005 book "Julie & Julia" and interlaced with famous television chef Julia Child's 2006 memoir "My Life In France," Ephron is able to parallel two slices of life that unfold in different time periods and in different time zones. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
Review: 'Julie & Julia' celebrates good life Aug 8, 2009
Directed by Nora Ephron ... Written and directed by Nora Ephron, "Julie " gives us the improbable true story of a 40-year-old woman, with no previous experience, who discovered her gift and her passion for cooking - and went on to become the most influential American cook of the 20th century ... Directed by Nora Ephron. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Streep and Adams shine in 'Julia & Julia' Aug 8, 2009
Actors blend talents for a near-perfect recipe in Nora Ephron's culinary adventure ... The trouble with the new comedy-drama, written and directed by Nora Ephron, is that only half of it belongs to Streep ... " Streep plays - no, inhabits - the role of Julia Child. Before there were celebrity chefs, before there was a Food Network, there was Child, America's first foodie. Her 1961 bestseller "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" saved our society from a dismal diet of TV dinners, casseroles and... (Fresno Bee)
Nora Ephron thinks about food all the time Aug 8, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nora Ephron says she thinks about food all the time. "This morning, all I've been thinking about is what I should have ordered last night. I should have ordered the pasta Bolognese, but I didn't. I went for a steak. It was a very good steak, but in the end, I should have tried the pasta.". (Madison Daily Leader, SD)
'Julie & Julia' screenwriter-director Nora Ephron thinks about food all the time Aug 7, 2009
Julie ' screenwriter-director Nora Ephron thinks about food all the time - WTIC. Julie ' screenwriter-director Nora Ephron thinks about food all the time ... FILE-This July 27, 2009 file photo shows director and writer Nora Ephron arrives at the premiere of "Julie and Julia" in Los Angeles. (FOX61, CT)
Daily TV listings Aug 7, 2009
Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and director Nora Ephron ( Julie & Julia ); food writer Lauren Braun Costello. Today at 11 a.m. on Chs. (Boston Globe)
Julie & Julia Aug 7, 2009
Director: Nora Ephron ... You ve Got Mail s Nora Ephron can barely make one good , so you got to wonder what makes her think she can handle two in the same sitting. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
‘Julie & Julia’ is a chef’s delight Aug 7, 2009
Julie & Julia is the easiest thing Nora Ephron has ever done with a movie ... JULIE & JULIA Written and directed by: Nora Ephron, adapted from Julia Child s My Life in France and Julie Powell s Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. (Boston Globe)
"Julie & Julia" Aug 7, 2009
Crackling good writer and "Sleepless in Seattle" director Nora Ephron gets serious about sagging necks and wrinkles, transforming her family life into fiction, and why her movies aren't as stupid or schmaltzy as people say. August 8, 2006. (Salon)
The Culture Gabfest, the All Hail Meryl Edition Aug 6, 2009
Ariel Levy's on Julie & Julia director Nora Ephron in The New Yorker (registration required). Brooks Barnes' about Ephron, Child, food and marriage in the New York Times. (Slate)
'Julie & Julia' Aug 6, 2009
Director: Nora Ephron ... Writer and director Nora Ephron has taken her film from two books, Child's "My Life in France" and the book Powell wrote about her project, "Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously." More important, Ephron got Amy Adams to play Powell and Meryl Streep to play Child. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
NY Times names new chief restaurant critic Aug 6, 2009
He last wrote about making meatloaf for Nora Ephron, who directed the movie "Julia ." The piece didn't reveal much about Sifton other than he makes a mean meatloaf and Ephron enjoyed it. So will he be partial to Italian cuisine like Bruni was perceived. (AZCentral -- Business)
Food News: The NEW New York Times Food Critic, Organic Concerns, and Sara's Julia Aug 6, 2009
JULIA'S CHILD Sara Moulton, who was Julia Child's assistant for a while, describes that Meryl Streep and filmmaker Nora Ephron got right about her mentor in "Julie and Julia." (via. Tagged with. (Epicurious.com)
Judith Jones’s great discovery: Julia Child Aug 5, 2009
MORE JULIA For more on the movie Julie & Julia, including interviews with Meryl Streep and Nora Ephron, see. LOG IN TO COMMENT. (Boston Globe)
Is Nora Ephron the foodiest filmmaker? Aug 5, 2009
Is Nora Ephron the foodiest filmmaker ... Is Nora Ephron the foodiest filmmaker ... Nora Ephron arrives at the premiere of "Julie and Julia" in Los Angeles on Monday. (Salon)
Julie & Julia is sweet, tasty treat Aug 5, 2009
If nothing else, the film stands out as a landmark in the ongoing career of Nora Ephron, who has, in the last 40 years, gone from being a sharp and witty essayist to a talented novelist and screenwriter to an utterly hacky filmmaker; with Julie & Julia, however, she demonstrates for the very first time that she knows what shes doing behind the camera ... Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris MessinaDirector: Nora EphronRun time: 2 hours, 2 minutesMPAA rating: PG-13 ...... (MSNBC -- Movies)
Round and round with Julie Powell Aug 4, 2009
The film was written and directed by Nora Ephron ... And it shouldn t be; it s a Nora Ephron movie, you don t want to go see maggots in a Nora Ephron movie. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
A beef Bourguignon of a movie Aug 3, 2009
And a master chef: writer-director Nora Ephron. Images. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Styling the real star of 'Julia': delicious dishes Aug 3, 2009
The film is a marriage of two books, skillfully executed by award-winning screenwriter Nora Ephron: Child's biography of her early years in Paris and her discovery of French cuisine, "My Life in France"; and Powell's 2005 account of spending a year preparing all 524 recipes in Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," the best-selling "Julie : My Year of Cooking Dangerously.". For print, food shots are generally "very up close and personal. The size of a raspberry matters. Everything has to... (Honolulu Advertiser)
Nathan Rabin’s ‘The Big Rewind’ is a funny memoir of a not so amusing childhood Aug 2, 2009
A critic to the bone, he panics when, a few years later, he accepts a ride home from a coworker: I was terrified both by the possibility that I was being driven home by a guy who was drunk or high, and that I had put my life in the hands of someone who counts Nora Ephron among the all-time greats. The last third of The Big Rewind, when Rabin arrives at The Onion, finds professional satisfaction, and sorts out the messy details of a complicated romantic life, seems the weakest section of the... (Boston Globe)
Streep captures the flavor of Julia Aug 2, 2009
At least not in the richly layered way that La Streep does Madame Child in Nora Ephron s butterlicious movie, Julie & Julia, opening Friday. Child may have been the Elvis of cooking, an irresistible voice and presence so broadly accessible that her mimics are legion. (Boston Globe)
Julie Powell: The 'Julie' in 'Julie & Julia' Aug 1, 2009
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How to save your marriage from your kids Jul 31, 2009
() -- Novelist and screenwriter Nora Ephron once wrote, "When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was.". Maintaining a strong relationship with your spouse is good for your children, experts say. (CNN -- Law)
The boy band is back in town Jul 15, 2009
Being portrayed in film is a recipe for distress Judith Jones, the editor who published Julia Child s Mastering the Art of French Cooking when no one else would, isn t very comfortable seeing herself portrayed on the big screen in the soon-to-be-released Nora Ephron movie Julie & Julia. Jones (top left, in undated photo), who was in town from Vermont yesterday for a screening of the film at WGBH, told us that it was difficult for her to see Broadway actress Erin Dilly (bottom left) portray her... (Boston Globe)
Backstage with Julia author at Dunes Club Jul 11, 2009
Verde Barr will be the guest speaker next week at a local fundraising luncheon, just weeks before Nora Ephron s much-anticipated movie Julia and Julie starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child lands in local movie theaters. It should be a fun talk considering she was so close to Julia, says Barbara LaCroix, president of the General Federation of Women s Clubs of South County, the organization sponsoring the 10th Annual Book and Author Lecture at the Dunes Club in Narragansett on July 15. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Upcoming movies now appearing in a book near you Jul 5, 2009
The movie: Director-writer Nora Ephron melds the two memoirs, with Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia. Opening: Aug. 7. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Julia Childs' Height Was Not a Handicap Jul 1, 2009
This point of view was echoed in the current issue of : A story about the director Nora Ephron opens with a quote about being tall from Meryl Streep, who is playing 6-foot-2 Julia Child in the forthcoming movie. "I mean, it's like having club foot ... it was a handicap of sorts, certainly in the world where she was born," Streep says. (Slate)
'Unmistaken Child' quest at Dalai Lamas' behest Jun 21, 2009
The 5-foot-6 Oscar winner portrays the famous 6-foot-2 chef in the August release "Julie ." Directed by Nora Ephron and co-starring Amy Adams, it's one of a half dozen forthcoming films based on titles published by Random House imprints Vintage Books and Anchor Books. "Movies help sell lots of books," says Random House marketing executive Russell Perreault. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
It's Blockbuster Time May 12, 2009
When Nora Ephron wrote her novel "Heartburn" - a thinly veiled account of her then-husband Carl Bernstein's philandering - she made the main character a food writer and included recipes at the end of each chapter. So nobody could have cooked up a better choice to direct "Julie ," which tells dual stories of Julia Child's rise to become a food eminence and of an amateur cook named Julie Powell who sets out to prepare all of Child's 524 recipes in "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." The movie... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Serial thriller May 9, 2009
You've Got Mail (1998) was the second film he made with Ryan for Nora Ephron, an entirely wish-propelled romance that nevertheless had some crackling dialogue worthy of its milieu, literary New York. If anything, it was the closest Hanks has come to the sort of snappy screwball comedy for which he seems so tailor-made. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Showbiz talent agent Sam Cohn dies May 7, 2009
They included Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Woody Allen, Lily Tomlin, Kathleen Turner, Vanessa Redgrave, Arthur Miller, Mike Nichols, Nora Ephron, Robert Altman, Bob Fosse, Sigourney Weaver, E.L. Doctorow and Jackie Gleason. The elusive Cohn, known for not returning phone calls, retired earlier this year from ICM, which he co-founded in the mid-1970s. (USA Today -- Life)
Summer 2009 movie preview: Ho-hum? Apr 30, 2009
Directed by: Nora Ephron. Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci. (Winona Daily News, MN)
MORE: Filmmaker cooks up a rich stew Apr 14, 2009
Nora Ephron cooks up a rich stew filming 'Julie ' - USATODAY.com ... Nora Ephron cooks up a rich stew filming 'Julie & Julia ... Nora Ephron directs Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia, which was filmed mostly in the New York area. (USA Today)
Meryl Streep was steeped in Julia Child for 'Julia' role Apr 14, 2009
Director/writer Nora Ephron, who did the screenplays for Streep's Silkwood (1983) and Heartburn (1986), says the actress basically did an informal audition for her a couple of Junes ago when they bumped into each other at New York's Shakespeare in the Park. "It was before I even started writing the script," the filmmaker says. (USA Today)
Women Screenwriters and Oscar Nomin... Mar 12, 2009
Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen (1983, Silkwood), and Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski (1991, Fried Green Tomatoes). Nominations and Oscars for Women by Decade. (Suite101.com)
Oscar Winning Women Screenwriters Mar 12, 2009
The other women include Francis Marion (1929/30, 1931/32, 1932/33), Ruth Gordon (1947, 1950, 1952), Nora Ephron (1983, 1989, 1993), and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1982, 1986, 1993). Claudine West was also nominated for her screenplay work in 1939, and again in 1942 for her work on two scripts, Random Harvest and Mrs. Miniver. (Suite101.com)
Enjoy Harry, Sally and Paprikash Feb 13, 2009
It's no coincidence that the brilliant Nora Ephron, who wrote the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally," was the writer and director for these Ryan-Hanks romcoms. Of course no romantic comedy list would be complete without the Julia Roberts can't-miss combo of "Notting Hill" and "My Best Friend's Wedding." And speaking of weddings, Nia Vardalos came out of nowhere as the lovable writer and star of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding.". (Erie Times-News, PA)
The omnivores remember Feb 8, 2009
Nora Ephron is very funny on the "back-biting, lip-smacking, and pocket-jingling" "Food Establishment" in 1970. In 1975, four days after the appearance of Craig Claiborne's New York Times piece "Just a Quiet Dinner for Two in Paris: 31 Dishes, Nine Wines, a $4,000 Check" (also included in the book), Russell Baker came back with his own "Lucullan repast." Beginning with "a 1975 Diet Pepsi served in a disposable bottle," he continues with, among other dishes, bacon and beans eaten from the pan... (Boston Globe)
