5QQ – Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron is what’s known in the business as a quadruple threat: writer, director, blogger and chef. Somehow she manages to pull all of those together in her latest film, Julie & Julia —which she directed and for which she wrote the screenplay, about a cook, a blogger, and blogging about cooking. Okay that’s putting it mildly: The cook in question is none other than the delightful (and vicariously delicious) Julia Child, author of the hugely influential Mastering The Art of French Cooking, and the blogger is Julie Powell, whose blog The Julie/Julia Project chronicled her attempt to make all of 542 recipes in that book, inside a year. Powell’s book about the experience, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen became the basis for the movie, from which Ephron adapted the screenplay. Whew! Lots in there. Oh yes, it also stars Meryl Streep. Too bad Ephron couldn’t get a decent actress, eh? Sheesh. Ephron, it should be duly noted, has written and/or directed a long list of films including classics like When Harry Met Sally, You’ve Got Mail, and Sleepless In Seattle, has written about as many books, contributed to pretty much every publication going, and is the Editor-at-Large of the Huffington Post and one of their most popular bloggers. She may feel bad about her neck but she should feel pretty good about her career — and her answers to today’s 5QQ – Five Quick Questions.

1. How do you get your first news of the day?

The New York Times on the doorstep.  Not that we have a doorstep.

Once upon a time, the pill.  Now the microwave.

Huffington Post.

The sky is falling.

Writer, New Yorker, married, mother, Democrat, happy to be here.

I’m concerned and curious, but I have yet to read anything particularly interesting on the subject.

Check out Nora Ephron’s HuffPo bio and IMDb page as well as her current standing on the Mediaite Power Grid

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