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Nora Ephron (born May 19 1941 ) is an American Film Director , Producer , Screenwriter , Novelist , and Blogger . She is best known for her Romantic Comedies and is a triple nominee for the Academy Award For Writing Original Screenplay ; for '' Silkwood '', '' When Harry Met Sally... '' and '' Sleepless In Seattle ''. She sometimes writes with her sister, Delia Ephron . PERSONAL LIFE Ephron has been married for more than 20 years to screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi and lives in New York City . CAREER Ephron graduated from Wellesley College and was briefly an intern in the White House of President John F. Kennedy . She later wrote, "It didn't upset me that he never hit on me. It upset me more that I didn't have the right clothing, if you want to know the truth." Ephron got a job at the '' New York Post '', where she stayed as a reporter for five years, after a satire she wrote lampooning the ''Post'' caught the editor's eye. Upon becoming a successful writer, she wrote a column on women's issues for '' Esquire ''. In this position, Ephron made a name for herself by taking on subjects as wide-ranging as Dorothy Schiff , her former boss and owner of the ''Post'', Betty Friedan , whom she chastised for pursuing a feud with Gloria Steinem , and her alma mater Wellesley, which she said had turned out a generation of "docile" women. A 1968 send-up of '' Women's Wear Daily '' in '' Cosmopolitan '' resulted in threats of a lawsuit from ''WWD.'' While married to Bernstein in the mid-1970s, at her husband and Bob Woodward 's request, she helped Bernstein re-write William Goldman 's script for '' All The President's Men '', because the two journalists were not happy with it. The Ephron-Bernstein script was not used in the end, but was seen by someone who offered Ephron a job writing a television movie, which would be her first screenwriting job. EPHRON AND DEEP THROAT For many years, Ephron was among only a handful of people in the world to know the identity of Deep Throat , the source for news articles written by her husband Carl Bernstein during the Watergate scandal. Ephron claims to have guessed the identity of Deep Throat through clues left by Bernstein. Among them was the fact that Bernstein referred to the source as "My Friend," the same initials as " Mark Felt ," who some suspected to be Bernstein's source. Ephron's marriage with Bernstein ended acrimoniously, and Ephron was loose-lipped about the identity of Deep Throat. She told her son Jacob and has said that she told anyone who asked. "I would give speeches to 500 people and someone would say, ‘Do you know who Deep Throat is?’ And I would say, ‘It’s Mark Felt.’” Classmates of Jacob Bernstein at the Dalton School and Vassar College recall Jacob revealing that Felt was Deep Throat to numerous people. Curiously, the claims did not garner attention from the media during the many years that the identity of Deep Throat was a mystery. Only when Felt's identity was revealed did Ephron go public with her knowledge. She was invited by Arianna Huffington to write about the experience in the '' Huffington Post '' and now regularly blogs for the site. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY Producer, director, and screenwriter
Director and screenwriter
Producer and screenwriter
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TRIVIA Ephron produced a film of collected clips from New York movies for the 2002 Academy Awards . Nora Ephron was the host of the dinner party where ,'' 1997) In 2007, Ephron appeared in the feature-length documentary ''Dreams on Spec'', which profiled three aspiring Hollywood screenwriters and offered wisdom from big-name writers like James L. Brooks , Carrie Fisher , and her. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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