Segal, Erich, 210
Love Story, 88, 89
Seidel, Frederick, “Remembering Elaine’s,” 182
Sheehy, Gail, 60, 101
She Loves Me (musical), 271
Sherr, Lynn, 44–45, 49, 63, 94, 106
Shop Around the Corner, The (movie), 270
Short, Marty, 81, 280
Short, Nancy Dolman, 81
Siegal, Peggy, 12
Silkwood, Karen, 163, 164–65, 167–69
Silkwood (movie), 165–69, 182, 198, 207
Simon, Neil, 121
The Goodbye Girl, 167
Sleepless in Seattle (movie), 133, 253
and Hanks, 190–92, 198, 199, 200, 202, 255, 271
Nora as director on, 6, 30, 183, 189, 197–99, 200, 202, 205, 210, 236, 271
Nora as screenwriter on, 169, 205
sound track of, 210, 267
success of, 214, 236
and Ward, 197–98
Sloan, Bonnie, 42–43, 105–6
Smith, Betty, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 109–10
Smith, Jean Kennedy, 246
Smith, Liz, 12, 114, 152, 278
Smith, Will, 173
Snider, Stacey, 198
Snyder, William, The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker, 104–5
So Dear to My Heart (movie), 209
Sokolow, Diane, 189, 279
Sokolow, Sandy, 129
Some Like It Hot (movie), 113
Sontag, Susan, 18, 276
Sony Pictures, 183, 216, 236
Sophie’s Choice (movie), 167
Spielberg, Sasha, 206, 207, 208
Spielberg, Steven, 12, 72, 111, 184, 200, 203, 218, 236, 247
Spitzler, Robert, 61
Stalin, Joseph, 226, 228
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 35, 167
Starr, Ken, 73
Steel, Dawn, 198
Steinbeck, John, 228
Steinem, Gloria, 55, 164
Stern, Isaac, 252
Sterne, Patti, 90–91
Stevenson, Adlai E., 35, 40
Stewart, James, 254
Stone, Lucy, 35
Stone, Peter, 252
Stoppard, Tom, 275
Stories About McAlary (film property), 218, 255
Streep, Meryl, 14–15, 189, 233
and Cohn, 163, 166
and Heartburn, 172, 173–74
and Julie and Julia, 173, 174, 205, 236, 271
on Nora as director, 173, 200–201
and Nora’s memorial, 280
and Silkwood, 165, 167–68, 169
Stringer, Howard, 182–83, 212–13, 268, 270
Stringer, Jennifer, 182
Stubbs, Barbara, 20, 28, 90, 121, 145, 149, 151, 185, 186
marriage breakup, 152–53
Sullivan, Ed, 111
Take Her, She’s Mine (play), 44, 158
Talese, Gay, 22, 92, 178
Tauger, Hallie Ephron, 212
Tauger, Molly, 212
Taylor, Elizabeth, 63
Thanksgiving, 211–12, 251
Thatcher, Margaret, 143
The Thin Man (TV), 269
This Is My Life (movie), 189–90, 207, 214
Thomas, Evan, Sr., 150
Time, 51, 52, 54, 64, 102
Tomlin, Lily, 163
Toohey, John Peter, 34
Toute une vie [And Now My Love] (movie), 191
Travolta, John, 173, 214, 215, 268
Trillin, Calvin “Bud,” 22, 52, 60, 203
Tripp, Linda, 73
Unger, Rusty, 148
United Press International, 110, 178
Urban, Amanda “Binky” [Auletta], 52, 81, 152, 182, 183, 184, 185, 279
Urban, Margo, 278
Vanity Fair, 75, 156, 275
Vargas, Alberto, 93
Variety, 214
Varnhagen, Rahel, 68
Vidal, Gore, 21–22
Vietnam War, 20, 53
Village Voice, 27, 183
Vonnegut, Kurt, 22
Vox, Tristan (nom de plume), 156
Wakefield, Dan, 58
Walsh, Mary Pat, 14, 216
Walters, Barbara, 12, 18, 23, 233, 252
Warner, Jack, 35
Washington, D.C., Nora in, 125–28, 131
Washington Post, 24, 60
and All the President’s Men, 133, 134
author’s work with, ix, 20, 65, 95, 111, 127, 136, 194
and Bernstein, ix, 20, 21, 25, 26, 90, 156
and Bradlee, 21, 51, 53, 134, 135
and Quinn, 23, 128, 129, 130
and Watergate, 21, 25, 26, 90
Watergate, 21, 25–26, 90
Wechsler, James, 59
Wellesley College, 42–49, 101, 106, 158, 231
Wellesley College News, 44–45, 106
West, Nathanael, The Day of the Locust, 30
What’s My Line? (TV), 72
When Harry Met Sally (movie), 245
cast of, 190
iconic line in, 193
Nora as screenwriter on, 169, 188, 192
as “Nora Ephron movie,” 194–95, 215, 236
and Reiner, 187–88, 192, 193, 195
theme of, 116, 187, 188
White, Theodore H., The Making of the President 1960, 102
“White Christmas” (song), 211, 213
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), 31, 112
Wiatt, Jim, 198, 215, 216
Wieseltier, Leon, 156
Wilder, Billy, 113
William Morris, 215, 216
Williams, G. Mennen, 52
Williams, Robin, 163
Willis, Bruce, 197
Wilson, Edmund, 227
Wilson, Rita, 190, 202, 252, 267
and Mixed Nuts, 6, 199
and Nora’s illness, 263–64
and Nora’s memorial, 180, 280, 281
and Sleepless in Seattle, 199
Winfrey, Oprah, 221–22, 223–24, 279
Winkler, Irwin, 181
Witchel, Alex, 264, 265
Witcover, Jules, 134
Witherspoon, Reese, 241
Wolfe, George, 257–58, 260, 261, 281
Wolfe, Tom, 52–53, 92
Wolkind, Harold, 38
Wolkind, Louis, 38
Wolkind, Phoebe, see Ephron, Phoebe
Wolkind, Richard “Dickie,” 38
Woodard, Alfre, 222
Woodward, Bob, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 121, 132–34, 181
Woolf, Virginia, 263
Woollcott, Alexander, 34
Writers Guild Pen Pal project, 203–5
Wynn, Elaine, 76–77
Yom Kippur War, 103–4, 106–8
“You Made Me Love You” (song), 210
You’ve Got Mail (movie), 210
Hanks and Ryan in, 171, 177, 200, 253
Nora as director of, 13, 148, 171, 199, 200, 205, 214, 236
sources of, 270–71
Yusupov, Prince Felix, 265, 267
Zabar, Rachel, 171
Zacharek, Stephanie, 218
Ziegfeld, Florence, Jr. “Flo,” 31
Zion, Sidney, 58
Zuckerman, Mortimer, 47
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Title: She made me laugh : my friend Nora Ephron / Richard Cohen.
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