and Red Scare, 226
Take Her, She’s Mine, 44, 158
visit to Wellesley, 43, 44, 48
as writer, x, 29–31, 35–36, 44
Epstein, Julius, 35
Erickson, Don, 88
Esquire, 7, 10, 15, 22, 27, 87–89, 92–95, 97–99, 101–2, 128
Falkner, William, 30
Felker, Clay, 21, 22–23, 129, 229
feminism, x, 8, 35, 55, 93, 130, 168, 217
Fenstermaker, BeeBee (nickname), 104–5, 213
Ferrell, Will, 216
Fest, Joachim, Not I, 254
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 30, 92, 95
Fonda, Jane, 53, 225
Fontana, Tom, 203
Foote, Horton, 169
Ford, Betty, 128
Fosse, Bob, 164
Fox, Joe, 85, 160–61, 176, 177, 178, 252, 276
Fraser, Antonia, 127
Freud, Sigmund, 276
Friedman, Budd, 119
Fritchey, Clayton, 40
Frommer, Arthur, 62
From the Earth to the Moon (TV), 254
Front Page, The (play), 238
Furman, Roy, 47–49
Gable, Clark, 253
Gale, June, 37
Gallin, Sandy, 244
Gandhi, Mohandas K. “Mahatma,” 42
Gardiner, Muriel, 225, 230
Garten, Ina, 264–66
Garten, Jeffrey, 264
Geffen, David, 11, 76, 81, 112, 141, 247, 249
George & Martha (TV pilot), 248
Get Shorty (movie), 215
Geyelin, Philip L., 129, 131
Gilder, George, Naked Nomads, 164
Gingrich, Arnold, 94–95, 97, 98
Glaser, Milton, 198
Gleason, Jackie, 65, 163–64
Gobel, George, 64
Godfather, The (movie), 181
Goldberg, Whoopi, 163
Goldman, Peter, 56, 66
Goldman, William, 134, 165
Goldstein, Ken, 39–40
Goldwater, Barry, 54
Goodfellas (movie), 181–82
Goodman, Walter, 173
Goodwin, Richard N. “Dick,” 97–98
Gottlieb, Robert, 81, 150–51, 152, 153, 220, 223
Graduate, The (movie), 112
Graham, Donald, 229
Graham, Katharine, 51, 54–55, 131, 137, 229
Graham, Philip L., 51
Grant, Cary, 30, 238, 254, 271
Grant, Lee, 197
Gravano, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull,” 181
Greenburg, Dan, 67, 122
comedy act of, 119, 189
and dinner parties, 70, 127
and Heartburn, 159–60
How to Be a Jewish Mother, 21, 69
“My First Orgy,” 23, 27
and Nora, 21–23, 52, 69–71, 85, 159
Greenburg, Nora (nom de plume), 62
Greenfield, Meg, 131
Gregory, Dick, 64
Griffin, Merv, 119
Groom, Winston, 252
Groopman, Jerome, 244, 247
Grossman, Lynn, 79, 122, 202, 212
Grunwald, Henry, 279
Grunwald, Louise, 279
Guare, John, 164
Guber, Lee, 23
Hall, Evelyn, 31
Hamill, Pete, 59, 70, 260
Hamilton, Alexander, 60
Hamlisch, Marvin, 213, 232, 233
Hamm, John, 240, 255
Hammett, Dashiell, 225, 231, 234
Hanging Up (movie), 214–15
Hanks, Tom, 111, 190–92, 202, 217
and Bonfire of the Vanities, 199
and dinner parties, 73, 184, 252
and McAlary/Lucky Guy, 238, 239, 240, 253–57
and Nora’s memorial, 180, 280, 281
and Sleepless in Seattle, 6, 190–92, 198, 199, 200, 255, 271
and You’ve Got Mail, 171, 177, 200, 253
Hardison, Kadeem, 6
Harper’s, 23, 156
Harpies, The, 12
Hart, Gary, 94
Hart, Moss, 33
Hartley, L. P., 46
Harwood, Richard, 145
Hayes, Eddie, 238, 262
Hayes, Harold, 88
HBO, 239, 248
Heartburn (Ephron/book):
characters in, 141, 146
and controversy, 156–57, 159–60
and dinner parties, 139, 140, 147
humor/anger in, 90, 129, 147, 188
publication of, 153, 155, 182
sales of, 223
success of, 123, 155, 220
Heartburn (movie), 9, 85, 155–56, 157, 161–62, 170–74, 217
Hecht, Ben, 238
Hedren, Tippi, 62–63
Heffner, Hugh, 22
Heller, Joseph, Catch-22, 112
Hellman, Lillian, 225–32
blacklisting of, 231
HUAC testimony of, 227, 230, 231
and Imaginary Friends, 68, 226, 234, 258
Hemingway, Ernest, 32, 59, 92, 95, 104
Henry, Buck, 70
Hersh, Seymour, 132–33
Higgins, Marguerite, 235–36, 238, 269
Hill, George Roy, 132
Hill, Henry, 180, 181
His Girl Friday (movie), 238
Hitchcock, Alfred, 63
Hitchens, Christopher, 274–75
Hitch-Hiker, The (movie), 196
Hitler, Adolf, 113, 225
Hoffman, Dustin, 133, 171
Hoffman, Philip Seymour, 239
Hoge, James, 165
Hoge, Warren, 23
Hollywood:
blacklist, 34, 37, 83, 231
female directors in, 6–7, 166–67, 173, 190, 196–201, 202
writers in, 29, 30
Hollywood Ten, 37
Holocaust, 34, 38
Honsa, Carol, 20
Hoover, J. Edgar, 54
Horowitz, Craig, 160
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 26, 37, 226, 227, 230, 231
Howar, Barbara, 23
Howard, Roy, 60
Howie (play), 36–37
Huffington Post, 16
ICM, 215
I Married a Witch (movie), 217
Improv, Manhattan, 119, 189
Irving, David, 275
Irving, John, 252
“Fox Here,” 161
Isham, Jennifer Maguire, 12
Ives, Burl, 209
Jackman, Hugh, 240, 256
Jaws (movie), 72
Jay, Margaret, 143–44, 145–46, 151, 157
Jay, Peter, 143, 145, 146
Joe Versus the Volcano (movie), 191
Johnson, Lyndon B., 13, 54, 65, 97
journalism:
and access, 110–11
as a job, 58–59
author as columnist, 134–36, 176, 188, 194
clip jobs, 64
feminism in, 130
gender discrimination in, 54–55
magazines, 10, 87, 98
observers in, 114
rules in, 61
smug righteousness of, 11, 53
triumphant, 10, 24–25, 102
war correspondents, 104, 108
Juanita (pen pal), 203–5
Julia (movie), 225
Julie & Julia (movie), 173, 174, 183, 205, 236, 266, 268, 271–72
Just, Ward, 52–53
Kael, Pauline, 133
Kass, Jerome, 185, 212
Kaufman, Elaine, 52, 182
Kaufman, George S., 31, 33–34, 36
Kavner, Julie, 189, 190
Keach, Stacy, 70
Keane, Margaret, 89
Kearns, Doris, 97–98
Keaton, Diane, 79, 215
Keller, Thomas, 140
Kempton, Murray, 58, 135, 237
Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted,” 97
Kennedy, John F., 26, 40, 51, 58, 97, 107–8, 229
and Making of the President, 102
Newsweek profile of, 54, 56
Kennedy, Robert F., 54, 97
Kenyatta, Jomo, 54
Kerr, Deborah, 271
Kidman, Nicole, 216, 217
King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr., 46
Kogan, Deborah Copaken, Shutterbabe, 81
Kosner, Edward, 57
Kramer vs. Kramer (movie), 118
Kseniak, Beth, 12
Kudrow, Lisa, 268
Lahr, John, 114
Lake, Veronica, 217
Lansing, Sherry, 198
Lapine, James, 265
Larry Crowne (movie), 255
Latham, Aaron, 21, 22–23, 27
“Lavender’s Blue” (song), 209–11
Lawrenson, Helen:
“A Few Words on Fellatio,” 92
“Latins Are Lousy Lovers,” 92
Lazar, Samuel “Swifty,” 169
Lear, Norman, 252
Lee, Peggy, 241
Leighton, Isabel, ed., The Aspirin Age, 254
Lelouch, Claude, 191
Leo, John, 79
Lerner, Max, 58
LeRoy, Warner, 252
Lessing, Doris, 263
Letterman, David, 13
Levant, Oscar, 37
Levett, Michael, 90, 91
Levy, Emanuel, 214–15
Lewinsky, Monica, 73
Lincoln, Abraham, 274
Lindsay, John V., 260
Los Angeles Times, 24
Lospalutto, Christopher, 221, 277–78
Lotkin, Kate, 38, 39
Lotkin, Louis, 38
Louima, Abner, 237, 239
Lourd, Bryan, 215, 216, 239, 256–57, 258, 266
Love Affair (movie), 271
Love Me or Leave Me (movie remake), xi
Lucky Numbers (movie), 215, 268–69
Luedtke, Kurt, 252
Lumet, Sidney, 252
Lupino, Ida, 196
Lyons, Leonard, 58, 67
MacArthur, Charles, 238
Mad Men (TV), 255
Mailer, Norman, 21, 92
Malle, Louis, 164
Mandel, Marvin, 134, 136
Maraniss, David, They Marched into Sunlight, 254
March, Fredric, 217
Margaret, Princess, 64
Mark, Laurence, 266
Marshall, Penny, 187, 201
Martin, Steve, 73, 111, 199–200, 214, 245
Marx Brothers, 36
Matthiessen, Peter, 161
May, Elaine, 112, 113
McAlary, Mike, 218, 237–40, 242, 253, 255, 257–58, 261–62, 263
McCall’s, 42, 87
McCarthy, Jeanne, 12
McCarthy, Joseph, 230
McCarthy, Mary, 226–28, 230
The Group, 231
and Imaginary Friends, 68, 226, 234
McCarthy era, 34, 60, 83–84, 226–27, 230
McCauley, James, 3
McCormack, John, 54
McEwan, Ian, 275
McFadden, Cynthia, 12
McGovern, George, 25–26, 90, 93, 94
McKelway, St. Clair, 32
McKuen, Rod, 88, 89
McNamara, Robert S., 54
Medavoy, Mike, 191
Meet the Press, 185
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 241, 246
Meyer, Eugene, 51
Miami Herald, 24
Michael (movie), 214, 215
Michaels, Lorne, 33
Midonick, Millard L., 123
Miller, Arthur, 164
Minnelli, Liza, 163
Mixed Nuts (movie), 6, 199–200, 214, 245
Moley, Raymond, 54
Monocle, 51–52, 58, 65
Moore, Demi, 197
More, 24, 99
Morris, Willie, 23, 252
Mostel, Zero, 163
Ms., 87, 163–64, 165, 168
Murdoch, Rupert, 229
Murray, Bill, 189
Mussolini, Benito, 178
Nation, 226
National Review, 106
Navasky, Anne, 52, 67, 252
Navasky, Victor, 51–52, 58, 60, 65, 69, 252
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 42
Nesbit, Lynn, 52
New Deal, 35, 60
Newfield, Jack, 260
Newhart, Bob, 201–2
Newman, Mildred, 121–22, 152, 159–60
Newman, Paul, 163
Newsday, 237
Newsweek, 10, 16, 49, 53–56
clip jobs in, 64
gender discrimination in, 54–55
Nora as mail girl for, 50–51, 55
Nora as researcher for, 55, 56
Nora’s first story for, 56
New York:
magical nights in, 212
newspaper strike in, 57–58
Nora’s move to, 52, 148–49, 150, 151, 182
writers in, 29–30
New York, 10, 87, 101, 198
and Felker, 21, 23, 129, 229
and Nora’s loss to Quinn, 129
and Watergate, 25, 90
and Yom Kippur War, 103, 104, 106
New York Aquarium, 62
New York Daily News, 263
New Yorker, 14, 32, 49, 133, 161, 183, 191, 244
New York Herald Tribune, 34, 53, 236
New York Hospital, 246, 248–50, 278, 279
New York Post, 10, 22, 23, 259, 265
Nora’s job at, 57–67, 237, 261
“Woman in the News,” 63
New York Times, 7, 9, 23, 24, 34, 37, 61, 87, 97, 107, 132, 173, 220, 233, 234, 265
New York Times Book Review, 150, 226
New York Times Magazine, 112, 122
Nichols, Mike, 112–17
and Catch-22, 112, 115, 122, 201
and Cohn, 164, 166, 167
and dinner parties, 70, 112, 115–16
and friendship, 81, 111, 112, 113, 115–16, 151
and Heartburn, 155, 156, 162, 172
and Hellman, 231–32
and Imaginary Friends, 232
and McAlary/Lucky Guy, 240, 258
and Nora as director, 166–67, 168–69, 196
and Nora’s illness and death, 116–17, 249, 273, 277, 280
and Silkwood, 166, 167, 168–69
talent of, 114, 201
Nicholson, Jack, 167, 172, 173
Nimer, Stephen D., 18, 278
Nissenson, Marilyn, The Lady Upstairs, 57
Nixon, Richard M., 21, 24, 25–26, 90, 98, 134, 230
Nora Ephron Repertory Company, 189
Norton, Ed, 239
O’Brien, Jack, 232–33
Obst, David, 132
Obst, Lynda, 133, 198, 216
O’Donnell, Rosie, 13, 280
Oh, God! (movie), 119
Oprah Winfrey Show, The (TV), 221–24, 279
Pakula, Alan, 26, 132–33, 252
Paltrow, Gwyneth, 252
Paolucci’s, New York, 260–61
Paramount Pictures, 155, 170
Parker, Dorothy, x, 34–35
Partisan Review, 227
Parton, Dolly, 90–91
Pascal, Amy, 198
Patinkin, Mandy, 172
Patterson, Jennifer, 212
Pavarotti, Luciano, 268
Peer, Liz, 50
Penn, Arthur, 132, 164
Penn, Sean, 239
Perkins, Maxwell, 22
Perkins, Tony, 121, 122
Perl, Maurie, 12
Peron, Eva, 75
Perry, Frank, 70, 71
Pesci, Joe, 181, 182
Philadelphia (movie), 190
Philadelphia Inquirer, 24
Phillips, B. J., 168
Pileggi, Nicholas, ix–x, 175–86, 254
family background of, 177–78
marriage of Nora and, 15, 81, 170–71, 175–76, 185–86, 207, 212, 251–52, 261–62, 272
meeting of Nora and, 182–83
and the Mob, 179–80, 181, 183, 262
and Nora’s illness and death, 279, 280, 281
and Paolucci’s, 260–61
socializing, 11
Wiseguy, 180
as writing partner, xi
Pileggi, Nicholas (father), 177
Pileggi, Susan (mother), 177–78
Pill, The, 53
Pinter, Harold, 127
Playboy, 69, 100
Playboy Magazine Writers Conference, 21–22, 69
Plimpton, George, 161
Pogrebin, Abigail, Stars of David, 107
Pollack, Sydney, 132
Portis, Charles, 52–53
Poston, Theodore Roosevelt, 60
Povich, Lynn, 55
Powell, Julie, 271
Cleaving: A story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, 272
Prentiss, Paula, 122
Presley, Elvis, 120
Public Theater, New York, xi, 258
Quaid, Dennis, 184
Quinn, Gen. William “Buffalo Bill,” 141
Quinn, Sally, 141, 166, 189
on being blond, 130
and Bradlee, 128–29
and CBS Morning News, 128, 129–30
socializing with, 146–47, 252, 264
and Washington Post, 23, 128, 129, 130
“We’re Going to Make You a Star,” 129
and When Harry Met Sally, 187
Rahv, Philip, 227
Rauh, Joseph, Jr., 227
Reagan, Ronald, 106
Redford, Robert, 132–33
Red Scare, 26, 37, 226
Reed, Rex, 121
Reiner, Estelle, 193
Reiner, Rob, 187–88, 192, 193, 195
Remnick, David, 244
Resnick, Adam, 268
Rich, Frank, 264–65
Ridgeway, James, 27
Rinaldi, Nicholas D., 136
Robards, Jason, 134
Robb, Lynda Bird and Charles, 65
Rockefeller, David, 246
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 54
Roiphe, Katie, The Violet Hour, 276
Rolling Stone, 24, 27
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 35, 60
Rose, Marshall, 76
Ross, Lillian, 32–33
Rossellini, Roberto, 111
Roth, Ann, 166, 168, 169
Rudd, Hughes, 129
Rudin, Scott, 84, 117, 248–49
Rushdie, Salman, 275
Russell, Rosalind, 238
Russert, Tim, 186
Ryan, Meg, 184, 189, 207, 252
and Higgins and Beech, 236
and Joe Versus the Volcano, 191
and Sleepless in Seattle, 190, 191, 200, 202, 253, 271
and When Harry Met Sally, 188, 190, 192–93, 194
and You’ve Got Mail, 171, 200, 253
Sacha, J.J., 13–14, 237, 249, 277, 278, 280
Safire, William, 24
St. Clair, James, 98
Salon, 218
Salter, James, 161
A Sport and a Pastime, 276
Sann, Paul, 59
Sarandon, Susan, 222
Sarton, May, 45–46
Saturday Night Live (TV), 33
Saturday Review, 94
Saving Private Ryan (movie), 236, 254
Sawyer, Diane, 112, 222
Scheider, Roy, 163
Scheinman, Andy, 188
Schell, Maximilian, 222
Schiff, Dorothy, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 67, 101, 158
Schiff, Jacob, 60
Schlesinger, Arthur, 22
Schlink, Bernhard, 114
Schumacher, Joel, 122
Scorsese, Martin, 181