Eve Pollard on Nora Ephron

Great Lives

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History, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Former newspaper editor and writer Eve Pollard tells Matthew Parris why Nora Ephron, the screenwriter of hit films such as 'When Harry Met Sally', 'Heartburn', and 'Sleepless in Seattle', is a Great Life. They are joined by Dr Jennifer Smyth, an historian whose teaching includes women in Hollywood at the University of Warwick. Producer: Perminder Khatkar

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0:34.8	She was funny and she was smart. And what was defining in her work was that when bad things happen,
0:40.5	you address them directly. Be the heroine of your life and not the victim, she said.
0:46.0	Nora Ephron was an author, screenwriter, essayist and playwright.
0:50.0	She made her name with Hartburn, a fictionalized account of the end of her
0:54.4	own second marriage, which was made into a film starring Merrill Streep.
0:59.3	Ephron wrote screenplays for highly successful films including Silkwood
1:03.6	when Harry met Sally and sleepless in Seattle.
1:06.9	She also directed and produced many of her scripts.
1:10.4	This week's great life is being championed by journalist and one of the first female editors of a national newspaper in the UK
1:18.0	Eve Pollard.
1:20.0	Eve, what strikes me immediately is that you and your great life both worked in an industry
1:27.0	that was terrifically male dominated. Is that part of what draws you to Nora Efron?
1:33.4	Oh, absolutely.
1:34.6	And I mean, she writes wonderfully.
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