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This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan romantic comedy, Sleepless in Seattle. And while I haven’t fully forgiven a film called “Sleepless in Seattle” for ending up in New York, it’s a great time to talk about it’s writer and director: the legendary Nora Ephron.

Nora Ephron is the daughter of two playwrights, who named her after a character in an Henrik Ibsen play. She interned under the4 JFK administration. She led a class action lawsuit against Newsweek for discrimination when they refused to allow her to write.

Her first writing credit would be for Silkwood, a drama about the real life Karen Silkwood a nuclear whistleblower who died under mysterious circumstances. She, along with co-writer Alice Arlen, would be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.

Ephron made her mark writing some of the most enduring romantic comedies of all time: When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail. Of these, When Harry Met Sally is probably the closest to my heart. The film features interludes of couples (actors, not real life couples) which were basically my life goals when I first saw the film.

Ephron has written or co-written all the movies she’s directed, with the exception of All I Wanna Do and Lucky Numbers. She often co-writes with her playwright sister, Delia Ephron.

Throughout her career, Ephron has had some really strange projects. If you were under the impression that Nora Ephron only wrote safe romantic comedies, let me disavow you of that notion Michael is a movie where John Travolta is an angel who becomes a tabloid sensation. She directed a very meta Bewitched remake, when’re the leads are actors who are themselves starring in a Bewitched remake.. and one of them is a witch. Her final film, before passing away in 2012, is Julie & Julia, where the Julie of the title attempts to make each of the 524 recipes in Julia Childs’ cookbook.

Today’s bonus prompt: what is your favorite film that Nora Ephron has written or directed?