Tag: Phoebe Ephron

December 19, 2015 / Vickie Lester

“I don’t like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.” Ethel Merman

March 27, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Desk Set (1957) written by Nora and Delia’s mom and dad, Phoebe and Henry Ephron

Ruthie Saylor: [Talking about Richard Sumner as he tape measures the office] Do you think we’re being redecorated? Sylvia Blair: Does he look like an interior decorator to you? Peg Costello: No. He looks like one of those men who suddenly switched to vodka!

March 27, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Nora Ephron: When Harry Met Sally (kinda May, September – Oona and Charlie, definitely straying into May, January)

Sally: [Crying hysterically] And I’m going to be forty! Harry: When? Sally: Someday! Harry: In eight years! Sally: But it’s there! It’s like a big dead end! And it’s not the same for men — Charlie Chaplin had kids in his 70’s! Harry: Yeah, but he was too old to…

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March 27, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I do know the difference between a fictional character and a real person – Delia Ephron for the NYTimes.com

Michelle and Robert King, the show’s creators, posted a note to fans, assuring us that Will Gardner may be dead, but Josh Charles, who plays him, “is very much alive and remains an integral part of our family.” Thank you. I may be obsessed with the show, but I do…

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