Acclaimed Filmmaker Nora Ephron Dies at 71
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BY MADISON MACK
ANCHOR LAUREN ZIMA
Revered journalist, author and filmmaker Nora Ephron has passed away. NBC has more.
“The three-time Academy Award nominee, she wrote some modern classics like ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and ‘When Harry Met Sally.’ She apparently kept her illness secret from even her closest family. She was 71 years old.”
The Guardian reports Ephron had been waging a secret battle against Leukemia.
“She died of complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia, with which she was diagnosed six years ago … her son Jacob Bernstein said she died from pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukaemia.”
Ephron is best known for her movies, but during her long career, she also wrote books, and was published in newspapers and magazines.
The Washington Post says she’ll be remembered quote “as a journalist with a natural, ground-breaking flair for injecting personal commentary into her work.”
“Ephron wrote decades ago the way everyone with a blog strives to do now: with zippy, smart, often confessional prose. She was laugh-out-loud funny before anyone could conceive of describing that via the term ‘LOL.’ It seems fair to assume that people quoted Nora Ephron back to Nora Ephron all the time, on nearly every day of her productive yet still all-too-brief life.”
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