On every episode we choose a celebrity who died between 1 and 10 years ago. We then go through a series of structured categories. We start by rating the first line of their NYT obituary on a scale of 1–10. We then look at their life stats, we speculate on their inner lives, and we ultimately answer the question "Would I want that life?" Each category helps weigh the desirability of a given life. Our approach is that of an empathetic biography. Our dead celebrities cross many categories of fame, including film, TV, sports, music, politics, literature, and more. Our goal is to make serious topics fun.
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episode 56: Sleepless Sally (Nora Ephron)
In the summer of 1961 she was a summer intern in the Kennedy White House; she once said she was probably the only intern that President Kennedy had never hit on. Her second husband was the Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein. She 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 box-office successes included “You’ve Got Mail” , “Julie & Julia” , “Sleepless in Seattle,” and “When Harry Met Sally.” Today’s dead celebrity is Nora Ephron.
Famous & Gravy is created and co-hosted by Amit Kapoor and Michael Osborne. This episode was produced by Jacob Weiss. Sign up for our newsletter at famousandgravy.com for and also, enjoy our mobile quiz game at deadoraliveapp.com.
If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like Episode 47 “Proud Mary” (Mary Tyler Moore) and and Episode 18 “Darling’s Critic” (Roger Ebert).
Transcript of this episode
New York Times Obituary for Nora Ephron
Famous & Gravy official website
Famous & Gravy on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
Erin Carlson website, author of ‘I’ll Have What She’s Having’
Nora Ephron’s commencement speech at Wellesley College
Nora Ephron documentary “Everything is Copy” by Jacob Bernstein
‘The Nora Ephron We Forget’ article in The New Yorker
Dead or Alive Quiz Game
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