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Nora Ephron on Aging
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By host Tom Ashbrook:

Novelist, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron knows a thing or two about life. And she shares. The story of her break-up as a young mother with Watergate star reporter Carl Bernstein is the thinly-veiled “Heartburn.”

She covered sex and the friendship of men and women in “When Harry Met Sally.” There was “Silkwood” and “Sleepless in Seattle” and “You’ve Got Mail” and kids and three marriages.

And suddenly, Nora Ephron is 65-years-old. And she’s not going to pretend, she says, that she likes it. The endless battle with gray hair and gravity and — despite all of her success — regrets. Getting old may beat the alternative, but Nora Ephron has issues with it anyway.

Guests:

Nora Ephron, director, screenwriter, and author of “I Feel Bad About My Neck.”

 
 

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