Nora Ephron

9 Life Lessons Learned From Roger Ebert (1942-2013)

Roger Ebert was an American film critic, screenwriter, and journalist, whose columns and reviews appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times and were syndicated in more than 200 newspapers across the country. Ebert made a name for himself in the candid and no-apology approach he had toward film review, earn ... More >>

Langer's: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Langer's Pastrami Delivery: From L.A. to You

The pastrami sandwich at Langer's Delicatessen is legendary. So delicious that it made our "100 Favorite Dishes" list. So distinctive that Nora Ephron deemed it "the finest hot pastrami sandwich in the world." So beloved that Angelenos regularly queue up for a taste -- and out-of-towners bemoan thei ... More >>

Nora Ephron Series at the Aero

Read This Now: The Awl's "Writer Food From A To Z"

It's worth keeping tabs on the New York-based website The Awl for many reasons, not least being their occasional cooking posts (my all-time favorite: "How to Cook A Fucking Steak"). Yesterday Jane Hu wrote an utterly lovely piece called "Writer Food From A to Z," which isn't quite as irreverent as t ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/25 - 6/29

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "'You can always spot people who don't cook because they think that pancakes are made with butter,' she said." An Elegy for Nora Ephron: Pancakes, Bakery Dreams the Strawberry Ambrosia Fraud. "I just don't understand the ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Gay Rights Oreo Graphic, Tomato and Strawberry Gazpacho Foods That Improve Sexual Health

Bon Appetit: 10 foods that possess aphrodisiac qualities and can (theoretically) improve your sexual health. MSNBC Bites: Rainbow Oreo graphic celebrating LGBT pride month sparks advertising controversy. Eatocracy: Remembering Nora Ephron through her film Julie & Julia, as well as Ephron's other ... More >>

An Elegy for Nora Ephron: Pancakes, Bakery Dreams The Strawberry Ambrosia Fraud

Every writer has two or three go-to sources, people who are famous enough for readers to recognize their name, witty enough so they can hold forth on anything and everything and are kind enough to always take your call. Nora Ephron was one of those for me. Whenever I'd phone, our conversation woul ... More >>

Nora Ephron, Writer of 'Sleepless in Seattle,' Dead at 71

Hollywood filmmaker Nora Ephron, who wrote When Harry Met Sally and You've Got Mail, died today at the age of 71, the Washington Post and New York Times report. After a day of rumors about her health that included denials from her agent and publisher, the two outlets said late this afternoon that t ... More >>

Laura Dave, L.A. Novelist, on Nora Ephron, Chick Lit and Whether Facebook Makes Us Happy

Laura Dave made a career out of writing the kind of fun, unabashedly frothy fiction we all tend to impulse buy at the gate before long flights, but that doesn't mean she hasn't earned her literary stripes. For one thing, the author has an MFA from the University of Virginia's highly regarded creat ... More >>

The Piglet: Food 52's Cookbook Madness Starts Now

If you follow food sites and current cookbooks, you'll doubtless be aware of Food 52, the website run by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs. You will perhaps also know about their annual cookbook tournament, The Piglet, in which a number of this year's best cookbooks are pitted against each other in a ... More >>

Mark Crick's The Household Tips of Great Writers: Cooking à la Chaucer, Etc.

Foodforfel/FlickrMark Crick imagines Geoffrey Chaucer's version of an onion tart​When it comes to celebrity cookbooks, we don't have a whole lot of great ones to choose from. But maybe that's more a function of who we consider celebrities these days: if our great writers cooked up food instea ... More >>

Ayomari and TiRon Get The Girl

TiRon and Ayomari​Under-the-radar rapper TiRon Jeffries was nervous about approaching dream hampton, first female editor of The Source and co-author of Jay-Z's Decoded. But like a freshman boy in high school who somehow had a shot with the most untouchable senior goddess, he wavered while his ... More >>

Cookbook Review: My Father's Daughter, or Gwyneth Paltrow's Cookbook is Good, In Spite of Herself

​Depending on whether you read Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP newsletter because you appreciate her recommendations or because you have a sadomasochistic curiosity to see how That Other Half lives, you either will love her cookbook, My Father's Daughter, or you will loathe its existence. Even Paltrow ... More >>

APATOW FOR AMUSEMENT

Stage Raw: Loveland

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

Stage Raw: Circle X and Bootleg Hook Up to Read Plays

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on John StepplingCIRCLE X AND BOOTLEG HOOK UP TO READ PLAYS Circle X Theatre Company and Bootleg are joining forces to present a series of Monday night readings of new works, starting September 13, at the Bootleg venue. Playwrights s ... More >>

Stage Raw: City Garage Bids Adieu to Fourth Street

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS Cover Story on LATE's The War Cycle2011 MARK TAPER FORUM SEASON ANNOUNCED ​John Lithgow Photo by Nigel Perry John Lithgow will ring in the New Year spinning yarns in Stories By Heart, previously produced at the Lincoln Center and at the National ... More >>

Stage Raw: How Do Actors Do It?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleHOW DO ACTORS DO IT? As told by Alan Mandell, who was among a dozen or so actors auditioning for the movie This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn. The role was for a man 94-years old. Mandell, being ... More >>

Stage Raw: James Gammon Memorial

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain Theatre MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JAMES GAMMON: Sunday, August 22, 2 p.m. at the MET Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Avenue in Hollywood. RSVP here Check back Monday night for reviews of: BOY'S LIFE, Howard Korder's 1988 ba ... More >>

Stage Raw: Summer Festivities

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlSUMMER FESTIVITIES Open Fist Theater Company launches its annual Fist Look Festival this weekend, with The Existents, a rock musical by Douglas Crawford and Jason Wooten, music and lyrics by Ty Taylor. T ... More >>

Stage Raw: Brewsie & Willie

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON LINDA PURL'S FESTIVALBREWSIE AND WILLIE ​Poor Dog Group's adaptation of Gertrude Stein's novella, is among the productions being reviewed this week. Photo by Scott Grolier Check back here on Monday night for reviews of THE BAKER'S ... More >>

WHERE'S THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A NEW WACKY COMEDY

Stage Raw: Unknown Future, Theater on Seward Closes Its Doors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an IdiotAN UNKNOWN FUTURE: Theater on Seward Closes its Doors John Fleck performs tonight (Thursday), 8 p.m. with his sardonic one-man comedy about Trader Joe's (and points beyond), Side E ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pasadena Playhouse Emerges from Bankruptcy

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEARCAPTURED AURAL PHANTASY THEATER ​CAPT presents a special event tonight (Friday) night, Hooray for Hollywood Extravaganza, celebrating the legends of Our Fair City, In a style mixing radio and vaudeville. The Galler ... More >>

Stage Raw: Wuthering "Heights"

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGEWUTHERING "HEIGHTS"​Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in his own Broadway hit, In The Heights, now at the Pantages. Photo by Joan Marcus "Wuthering" actually means windy not withering. Though the former is preval ... More >>

Stage Raw: Lease Subsidy Program Gets Another Lease

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACELEASE SUBSIDY PROGRAM GETS ANOTHER LEASE A recommendation by L.A.'s Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to restructure (eliminate) the city's Lease Subsidy Program for non- ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Blank, Palomino, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Also, Four Places, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, 1951-2006 and more

Love, Loss, and What I Wore

Stage Raw: Four Places

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAYNEW REVIEW GO FOUR PLACES​Photo by John P. FlynnThe family outing on display in Joel Drake Johnson's unsettling comedy resembles a gathering of ornery, wounded jackals. Siblings Warren (Tim Bagley) a ... More >>

Love, Loss, and What I Wore

Kindle This: Mastering the Art of French Cooking Tops Bestseller List

Amazon.comJulia Child a best-seller​For those bemoaning the lost art of reading (here's David Ulin's fine piece in the Los Angeles Times) or the lost art of cooking (Michael Pollan in the New York Times), there is good news on both counts: Julia Child's classic cookbook "Mastering the Art of F ... More >>

Julie & Julia: In Praise of Half of Meryl Streep's Top-Chef Biopic

Nora Ephron captures the earthly delights found in Julia Child’s cookbook and autobiography

Funny People, Funny Business

What's no laughing matter in movies and media this week

"Julie & Julia" Food Stylist Susan Spungen Explains the Secret to a Perfect Cheese Pull

In one particular scene from director Nora Ephron's new film "Julie & Julia," starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, a discarded failure of an aspic gurgles up from the garbage disposal in Julie Powell's small borough kitchen. It is the first major failure in her attempt to cook and blog her way throu ... More >>

1961 WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR

Larousse Gastronomique: The Necessary 8-lb. Book In Your Cookbook Library

It is the Summer of Julia, when teenage girls will soon be lining up along the hot concrete sidewalks of Wilshire Boulevard to watch Meryl Streep flip omelets and deconstruct ducks onscreen.

Tori Spelling's Got My Back . . .

and other random acts of celebrity kindness

Tori Spelling’s Got My Back...

and other random acts of celebrity kindness

It Ain’t Cool

Bad, Bad Gurley Brown

America’s Cosmo girl returns to her L.A. roots

Babes in Armor

The women of Hollywood

Letters

Return to Sender

Hanks and Ryan sleepless again in You've Got Mail