Īfter eventually quitting Newsweek because she was not allowed to write, Ephron participated in a class action lawsuit against the magazine for sexual discrimination, described in the book The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace by Lynn Povich, and both the lawsuit and Ephron's role were fictionalized in a 2016 Amazon series by the similar main title Good Girls Revolt. After she was told they did not hire women writers, she accepted a position as a mail girl. She also applied to be a writer at Newsweek. Career Early work Īfter graduating from Wellesley College in 1962, Ephron worked briefly as an intern in the White House of President John F.
She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1958, and from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, in 1962 with a degree in political science. Ephron has cited her high school journalism teacher, Charles Simms, as the inspiration for her pursuit of a career in journalism. Īs a high school student, Ephron dreamed of going to New York City to become another Dorothy Parker, an American poet, writer, satirist, and critic.
Both her parents became alcoholics during their declining years. Ephron's parents based the ingenue character in the play and film version of Take Her, She's Mine on the 22-year-old Nora and her letters from college Sandra Dee played the character based on Nora in the film version, with James Stewart portraying her father. Her sister Hallie Ephron is a journalist, book reviewer, and novelist who writes crime fiction. Nora's younger sisters, Delia and Amy, are also screenwriters. Her parents named her Nora after the protagonist in the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. Her parents, Phoebe (née Wolkind) and Henry Ephron, were both East Coast-born and were noted playwrights and screenwriters. She was the eldest of four daughters, and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. Įphron also directed films, usually from her own screenplays, including Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998), both starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.Įphron was born in New York City on May 19, 1941, to a Jewish family. In 2013, Ephron received a posthumous Tony Award nomination for Best Play for Lucky Guy. She also co-authored the Drama Desk Award–winning theatrical production Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Įphron's first produced play, Imaginary Friends (2002), was honored as one of the ten best plays of the 2002–03 New York theatre season. She won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally., which the Writers Guild of America ranked as the 40th greatest screenplay of all time. She is best known for her romantic comedy films and was nominated three times for the Writers Guild of America Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Silkwood (1983), When Harry Met Sally. After receiving the alarm from the shepherd, the local police station together with the forestry bureau released the snow leopard back into the wild.Nora Ephron ( / ˈ ɛ f r ə n/ EF-rən May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker. The snow leopard is a Class A protected animal in China.
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A Weibo user joked, "It seems that the leopard has come here for a free buffet." Other netizens worried about the sheep commented, "The sheep must have had a nervous and sleepless night." When the shepherd counted the remaining sheep, he found that the snow leopard had killed a total of 19 sheep and bitten another 11. "I found the leopard when I came to check the sheep the next morning," the shepherd said, "We stood there eye to eye, and I was terrified." "The sheepfold had been attacked by wolves before, so we reinforced the fence, but we did not expect the leopard to come down from the top." "The snow leopard got in through a hole on top of the sheepfold," said the shepherd in a video posted online Saturday. Photo: screenshot of China News on Sina Weibo.Ī snow leopard was found resting idly among dozens of sheep in the Aksu region of Northwest China's Uygur Autonomous Region after it had sneaked into a sheepfold and killed 19 of them.
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