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A few weeks ago my friend Christie and I were discussing this book. I wanted to share a story from it but couldn't find it in my bookcase. The next week, Christie showed up with a copy.
Ephron tells stories about herself and how neurotic and scatterbrained she can behave. But I've loved rereading the book and barely remember her stories about how high maintenance we women can be. Yesterday I read the longest chapter. It's about her love affair with her ten year stay in her five bedroom apartment at the Apthorp, a luxury apartment/condo building in New York City. Built in the early 1900s.
But, while reading, I remembered that she'd written a screen play about the couple of years she'd lived in Chicago prior to moving back to New York and into the Apthorp. The film was Heartburn.
So yesterday I watched Heartburn. Made in 1986, it stars Meryl Streep as the Nora character, and Jack Nicholson as her short time husband, who was the Carl Bernstein character. The movie is also loaded with other stars but it did not do well at the box-office. I'm sure much of it is fiction but it depicts the Meryl Streep character as exactly the same Nora Ephron type person who wrote this book.
As for me, I can honestly say I was never very "high maintenance." Till now.
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