Liz SMITH seems to think Nora EPHRON has died. Gawker, not so much.
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http://gawker.com/5921540/nora-ephron-may-have-died-according-to-the-internet
[font size=5]Nora Ephron May Have Died, According to the Internet[/font]
John COOK
Screenwriter Nora Ephron seems to have passed away, according to this uncomfortaby indeterminate column by her friend Liz Smith that just appeared on the internet. Her former close friend Margo Howard also writes on Twitter that Ephron passed away from cancer, and that a funeral is scheduled for Thursday. According to the Observer, Ephron's representatives are not commenting on Smith's column.
UPDATE: Ephron's publisher, Knopf, tells the New York Times that the screenwriter is still alive. We'll update with more information as we have it.
http://www.wowowow.com/liz-smith/liz-smith-on-nora-ephron/
[font size=5]Liz Smith on Nora Ephron[/font]
by LIZ SMITH
.... I have a letter now in my hands: “Came home (from Claudia Cohen’s funeral where you, Liz, say you want nothing like it). Told Nick to make sure when I died there was a funeral and not a memorial service. Please remind him. This is the real effect of all these funerals. They give us ideas for our own. I want a big deal, and I want everyone to be basket cases.”
Ironically, almost the last words Nora wrote were about me in a recent Vanity Fair where I appeared in Times Square on a horse and Nora extolled my long-life and its “virtues.” She was busy working on more exotic things. People who never dreamed she was ill, are crestfallen. Amazed. Stunned. ....
I won’t say, “Rest in peace, Nora” – I will just ask “What the hell will we do without you?”
Maybe. I hope. Nora will answer. Nora, we ARE all basket cases. There was no one like you.
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