Sleepless Sally (Nora Ephron)
Sleepless Sally (Nora Ephron)  
Podcast: Famous and Gravy
Rating: Explicit Published On: Wed Aug 09 2023
Description: This person died in 2012 at age 71. In the summer of 1961 she was a summer intern in the Kennedy White House; she once said she was probably the only intern that President Kennedy had never hit on. Her second husband was the Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein. She was a journalist,  essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and a movie director — a rarity in a film industry whose directorial ranks were and continue to be dominated by men. Her box-office successes included “You’ve Got Mail” , “Julie & Julia” , “Sleepless in Seattle”, and “When Harry Met Sally”. Today’s dead celebrity is Nora Ephron.Famous & Gravy is created and co-hosted by Amit Kapoor and Michael Osborne. This episode was produced by Jacob Weiss and includes a guest appearance from Erin Carlson. Visit our website at famousandgravy.com and also enjoy our free mobile quiz game at deadoraliveapp.comIf you enjoyed this episode, you may also like Episode 47 “Proud Mary” (Mary Tyler Moore) and and Episode 18 “Darling’s Critic” (Roger Ebert)LINKS:Transcript of this episodeNew York Times Obituary for Nora EphronNora Ephron’s commencement speech at Wellesley CollegeNora Ephron documentary “Everything is Copy” by Jacob Bernstein‘The Nora Ephron We Forget’ article in The New YorkerErin Carlson website, author of ‘I’ll Have What She’s Having’Dead or Alive quiz gameFamous & Gravy on Facebook, LinkedIn, TwitterFamous & Gravy official websiteSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.