Great Regulars: [Nora Ephron] was a journalist, a blogger,

an essayist, a novelist, a playwright, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a movie director--a rarity in a film industry whose directorial ranks were and continue to be dominated by men. Her later box-office success included "You've Got Mail" and "Julie & Julia." By the end of her life, though remaining remarkably youthful looking, she had even become something of a philosopher about age and its indignities.

from Charles McGrath: The New York Times: Nora Ephron Dies at 71; Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor

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