Nora Ephron

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q214677: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Sleepless in Seattle (1993); Michael (1996); Phenomenon (1996); You've Got Mail (1998); Lucky Numbers (2000); Bewitched (2005); Julie & Julia (2009); Michael (2026); Mixed Nuts; This Is My Life; unspecified. Count them as writer (9 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Shop Around the Corner: 3 lines

lineage (lineage) · them, directly: The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ Nora Ephron (the maker said so). Ephron said she and Delia loved the original film and its musical version.
“Nor Efron goes, oh, Delia and I, that's one of our favorite movies ever and one of our favorite musicals ever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:36:52 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage) · through You've Got Mail (1998), which they directed: The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). Warner Brothers inherited the Turner library and the producer picked The Shop Around the Corner to remake.
“Lauren Schuler Donner looks at the library and goes, huh, shop around the corner.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:36:33 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (craft) · through You've Got Mail (1998), which they directed: The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). Three scenes appear almost verbatim in all three screen versions, including the friend's line about her coloring.
“3 scenes that exist almost verbatim in all 3 movie versions, which are the scene with the friend, the Dave Chappelle scene where he takes a look at her.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:57:29 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Ninotchka: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through You've Got Mail (1998), which they directed: Ninotchka ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture.
“I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Preston Sturges: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Preston Sturges ⇒ Nora Ephron (the host's read). Sturges's writer-first absurdist romantic comedy style influenced Ephron, James Brooks and Albert Brooks.
“obviously, like the Nora Efron of the world were really influenced by Sturgis movies, um, as were like James Brooks and, you know, the people like Albert Brooks”
The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:48:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

She Loves Me (stage musical): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through You've Got Mail (1998), which they directed: She Loves Me (stage musical) ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). Griffin lists the earlier versions the story had been through, including the musical.
“She loves me shop around the corner and in the summertime.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

When Harry Met Sally (1989): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through You've Got Mail (1998), which they directed: When Harry Met Sally ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally.
“Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

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career (2)

career (career): Nora Ephron → My Blue Heaven. Ephron wrote My Blue Heaven after Nicholas Pileggi met Henry Hill for Wiseguy.
“Nora Efron sitting at home riding my blue heaven after her experience meeting Henry Hill”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:32:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Tom Hanks → Nora Ephron. Hanks did a Broadway play partly as tribute to the dying Ephron.
“I think he almost pointedly did that play because he knew she was dying.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:41:28 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

contrast (contrast): Judd Apatow → Nora Ephron. Juliet says the rom-com era of female writers like Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers was changed when Apatow arrived with his crew.
“And then Judd Appatow comes to town with his crew and changes that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:09 · Juliet Litman (0.75 sure it was them)

craft (4)

craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Nora Ephron. Juliet judges Nancy Meyers better as a writer than as a director, grouping her with Nora Ephron as writers with a specific female lens.
“Nancy Myers is like better as a writer than as a director”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:04:54 · Juliet Litman (0.75 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nora Ephron → Seinfeld (TV series). An Ephron one-liner dropped into dialogue is like Seinfeld lifting Jerry's stand-up bits into an episode.
“Whenever Nora Efron puts in like a Noraism, it reminds me of watching Seinfeld where like they just fully put one of Jerry's stand-up lines in the dialogue for no reason.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:03:00 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nora Ephron → Sidney Lumet. Ephron rehearsed her casts in a taped-out black-box theater, a method the speaker links to Sidney Lumet.
“Did extensive rehearsals for all of her movies in a way that the only other person I know who did this in the last 30 or 40 years was Sidney Lametz”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:39:31 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Hanging Up → Nora Ephron. The Nixon smoking-gun phone joke is the moment that feels most like Ephron comedic balance.
“That is also, that is the thing that feels the most effronny.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:05:09 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

industry (3)

industry (industry): Mike Nichols → Nora Ephron. A New York power circle of creative friends: Nichols, Ephron, Sawyer, Gray Carter, Lorne Michaels.
“friends with Nora Efron, Mary Diane Sawyer, like has a house in Connecticut”
The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:39:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Nora Ephron → Amy Pascal. Ephron's films usually began with a powerful woman producer or executive: Pascal, Obst, here Schuler Donner.
“So like so much of her career is like Amy Pascal and Linda Opst, and this one is Lauren Schuler Donner.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:35:07 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Nora Ephron → Nancy Meyers. Four rom-com filmmakers covered on Blank Check; two of the men got Oscar nominations, the women did not.
“they're Cameron Crowe, James L. Brooks, Nora Efron, and Nancy Myers, and 2 of those 4 guys got best picture nominations of best director nominations.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:37:41 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

lineage (3)

lineage (lineage): Preston Sturges → Nora Ephron. Sturges's writer-first absurdist romantic comedy style influenced Ephron, James Brooks and Albert Brooks.
“obviously, like the Nora Efron of the world were really influenced by Sturgis movies, um, as were like James Brooks and, you know, the people like Albert Brooks”
The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:48:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Nora Ephron → The Shop Around the Corner. Ephron said she and Delia loved the original film and its musical version.
“Nor Efron goes, oh, Delia and I, that's one of our favorite movies ever and one of our favorite musicals ever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:36:52 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Leslie Headland → Nora Ephron. Headland could have an Ephron/Meyers/Crowe/Brooks type career.
“And I feel like Leslie Hedland is someone who is kind of an heir apparent too.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:36:20 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

people (1)

people (people): Bewitched → Nora Ephron. Ephron knows the industry well, so the Hollywood backlot material is the good part.
“is like very good because Nora Efron knows it so well and it's like filmed in LA.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:22:10 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

programming (1)

programming (programming): Harmony Korine → Nora Ephron. Proposal to cover Korine like Ephron: start with the screenplay (Kids) as the defining work.
“treat harmony like Nora Efron and be like, you start out with the screenplay.”
Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:24:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (2)

theme (theme): Ghost → Nora Ephron. Romantic tearjerkers of the era came from writers like James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron.
“James L. Brooks and Nora Efron, and you've got these writers who have like a real knack for this kind of thing”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:56:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Julie & Julia → Nora Ephron. Ephron grasped early how blogs worked and translated a personal weblog into narrative.
“I mean, even just making Julie and Julia into a movie from start to finish, like how cool blogs were and how important they were and how to translate the idea of a personal weblog into narrative or whatever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:43:52 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

verdict (verdict): Mixed Nuts → Nora Ephron. The acidic Ephron films, Mixed Nuts, Lucky Numbers, Bewitched, are the ones people think of as her bombs.
“bomb are the ones where she tries to go kind of acidic and like mix nuts, lucky numbers, bewitch, you know.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:54:13 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

what-if (what-if): Nora Ephron → Black Widow and Hulk (hypothetical). Amanda's pitch: a Black Widow and Hulk love story written as if Nora Ephron wrote a Marvel movie.
“It should be like if Nora Efron wrote a Marvel movie.”
The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 1:04:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Nora Ephron: Ephron's assistant left the donated items with the doorman, in an orthopedic shoe store bag, before anyone knew she was sick.
“bag that the that the assistant gave it to me in was for was from an orthopedic shoe store.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:10:52 · Bobby Finger (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Nora Ephron: Ephron blogged on Huffington Post about divorce, and the speaker marvels that a writer at her level embraced the internet.
“A lot of writers at her level would have really looked down on the fact that they would be able to block her and she embraced it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:43:33 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
fun, about Nora Ephron: Ephron rehearsed her casts for weeks in a taped-out black-box theater with fake props.
“tape out the sets and give them fake props and run every scene with full blocking weeks in advance”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:39:31 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Nora Ephron: The mother's dictum "everything is copy" shaped the four writer sisters.
“There's the famous, like, everything is copy thing that their mother would always say to them”
Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:01:55 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Nora Ephron: The famous vinaigrette recipe shows up in the plot as the sisters' fight over ownership.
“There is this vinaigrette recipe that Nora Efron did that is like famous, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:02:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55 sure it was them)