Writer Nora Ephron dead at 71

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Heartburn, a book of recipes and adultery, was her hilarious take on her 1976 marriage to Carl Bernstein, of Watergate/Deep Throat fame. (played in the movie by Jack Nicholson, so, for years, I thought the story was about her marriage to Woodward.)

Some other works: When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail. (However, it was Billy Crystal who was responsible for getting Rob Reiner's mom into the 100 best movie lines of all time by coming up with "I'll have what she's having.")

I have watched her movies many times, almost every time I happen upon one of them on TV and, of course, When Harry Met Sally is my favorite.

Maybe none of her works were War and Peace or To Kill a Mockingbird, but her writing was very clever and entertaining and "That's not nothing."

Thanks so much for the many laughs and R.I.P., Ms. Ephron

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1. Here's a link to the AP story on her passing (of leukemia)

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_NORA_EPHRON?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-06-27-03-17-18

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2. Morning Joe says she died of pneumonia, after a battle with leukemia.

Whatever, rest well.

[DainBramaged]

3. Thank you Miss Ephron, from my heart

your legacy is concrete

[SaveOurDemocracy]

4. Intelligent, witty and creative ... sad to see her go. n/t

[Divine Discontent]

5. right to the point, she was all those things! +1

RIP




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6. Very sad ...

http://www.aamds.org/mds-complicated-group-disorders

"We were saddened to learn of the death of noted author and filmmaker, Nora Ephron, after a six year battle with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and we offer our condolences to her family and friends.

Various news reports have listed the cause of Ms. Ephron’s death as MDS, leukemia, or pneumonia. To clarify, in some cases MDS progresses from lower- risk to higher-risk as blasts (immature white blood cells) increase in the bone marrow. When the percentage of blasts reaches 20% or more, the patient is diagnosed as having acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a cancer of the white blood cells. This transformation from MDS to AML occurs in between 15% and 40% of patients with higher-risk MDS. Treatments for higher-risk MDS patients include hypomethylating drugs, low dose chemotherapy, high dose chemotherapy medicines similar to those used to treat AML, and sometimes experimental drugs or drug combinations on clinical trials...

It appears that the type of MDS that Ms. Ephron had was different from the diagnosis Ms. Robin Roberts announced recently of therapy-related MDS, resulting from her previous treatment for breast cancer.

MDS is a complicated group of disorders and not a single disease."

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7. I forget to mention Silkwood in the OP, which deserves mentioning.