News about Nora Ephron

'I feel bad about my neck,' the late, brilliant writer Nora Ephron succinctly put it.' To that, I'd add: my jawline. We want it to be'snatched' in order to use the latest parlance.'

Natalie Portman revealed that she is currently reading a book about the consequences of being a cheating husband in the midst of her own marital issues. The actress, 42, took to Instagram to reveal her book club pick for March: Nora Ephron's autobiographical book 'Heartburn, based on her marriage and divorce from second husband Carl Bernstein following his affair. 'I'm excited to finally read Nora Ephron's Heartburn, her definitive transformation of pain into comedic art.' Looking forward to hearing what you all think! In the caption of her post, Natalie wrote, 'MarchPick @natsbookclub.'

BEE WILSON: All the food you prepare means nothing to me,' says my husband, who spent 23 years in my kitchen. He stroded a pan of Sicilian meatballs with bay leaves and white wine simmering on the stove to make his argument. It had been a few weeks since he had revealed that he was leaving, and we were trying to explain and figure out what had gone wrong. But what if, for years, I had been paying attention to the wrong things? Primarily food. I'm a food writer, and cooking for others has been one of the ways I express love.

Christa D'Souza, who suffered with electrolysis on her chin at 15, is concerned about stray hairs now that she is 63. But that is not to say that she doesn't relish plucking a large hair right out of its root with a brand-new pair of Tweezermans.

SARAH VINE: Every woman's life comes to an end when the words of late, brilliant writer, screenwriter, and all-round sage Nora Ephron spring to mind. I Feel Bad About My Neck (And Other Thoughts On Being A Woman) was Ephron's 2006 collection of remarkably sharp insight into the trials and tribulations of being a woman of a particular age, the empty nest, the aching joints, and fading faculties; and, of course, the struggle to overcome the gap between the crone and the woman we see in the mirror as the years progress. 'The neck starts to go at 43 years old,' she says, and that's that.' You can make-up on your face and concealer under your eyes and dye your hair, and you can spray collagen and Botox and Restylane into your wrinkles and creases, but there isn't a single thing you should do about your neck. The neck is a dead giveaway. Our faces are lies, and our necks are the truth.' And, of course, she has been absolutely correct for years. Necks are like hands (and feet, although feet are much easier to hide), and they are hard to detect. I'd also include jowls and, in some cases, ears and noses in that list. As we get older, the former sag and droop will grow larger and more prominent. We're all aware of the youthful deserts, and our faces and bodies are gradually but unmistakably soften, as Tarmac in the hot sun. It is not a pleasant memory.

The end of any given month means that Netflix and others like it will continue to produce new content, but also removing a slew of movies and TV shows. According to What's On Netflix, the subscription service has licenses to'rent' movies and TV shows for a certain period of time, and if something goes missing, it means the'rental' period has come to an end, so to speak. Surprisingly enough, some of the Netflix Original Films that were made in-house would be leaving as well, and they are likely to be out on other platforms for a time.

We can't remember how wonderful Walker (left) was when we first met her, but she comes from a family with an extraordinary capacity for love. Her book reads like a novel: a sprawling, personal, intergenerational family tale. And what a family is. Walker's grandmother, Dolly; her mother, Fari; and her remarkable aunts, Mehri, Irie and Mona, who disparage love, well-intentioned information, and chai in equal measure;

For the past 30 years, Sleepless In Seattle has tugged at fans' heartsstrings. Nora Ephron, the mastermind behind When Harry Met Sally (1989), You've Got Mail (1998) and Julia & Julia (2009), is still one of the best rom-coms of all time. Sam (Tom Hanks), who becomes a single dad after his wife's death, is chronicled in the 1993 film. Jonah (Ross Malinger), his son, is forced to get on the radio and woos America with his touching tale. Annie (Meg Ryan), a Baltimore journalist, can't help but be moved by the man's tale. Even though she is engaged to Walter (Bill Pullman), she writes a letter to him advising that they meet on the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day. Here's a look at the cast of Sleepless in Seattle as the film's 30th anniversary comes.

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has branded the initiative to combat unlawful immigration as immoral, but it falls short of offering a positive alternative, prompting the government to do more to assist Ukrainian refugees last year. Despite grand quarters at Lambeth Palace and his Canterbury Old Palace, there is no sign of Justin giving up a room or two for homeless Ukrainians. During the 2016 Syrian refugee crisis, he did house a Syrian family in a'spare' four-bedroom cottage in Lambeth, but two years later, they were forced to move forward. Life in Lambeth was not'suitable' for a refugee family, according to an episcopal mouthpiece, whatever that means.

CHRISTA D'SOUZA: I know it's become a thing, the whole #GreyHairDontCare movement, and I know we all want to be our authentic, natural selves, but does it actually look better?And if I may be even bolder, what are your other half's thoughts on the subject? I'm only asking the query because my other half wasn't thrilled about it at all when I decided to embrace the grey. Not that he dared tell me at the time. It was only after I'd 'gone back to myself' when I caved in and started dying it ashy blonde just over a year ago, that he admitted how much he hated it. I would have been a very wealthy woman now if I had a fiver for every one with whom he was with him on this.

Hilary Clinton's Massachusetts college accepts those who live as a woman and express as a woman,' including transgender females who were born male. Although the referendum will not change education policies, it will be carried to school administrators, including college president Paula Johnson, who has openly opposed the change. Students also voted for college communications over transgender men on campus, rather than women, who prefered the use of "students" and "alumni."

Students at an all-female college attended by Nora Ephron and Hillary Clinton (bottom right) will determine whether it will accept trans male students who were born female in a dramatic referendum on Tuesday. Admissions from "anybody who lives and expresses a woman" are now accepted at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, including transgender people who were born male. However, a crucial referendum, which has divided students, will determine whether the application process should be open to women who were born female but who now identify as transgender people. The move is being condemned by President Paula Johnson (left) who opposes it. But student president Alexandra Brooks (top right) say trans students already attend the college

PATRICIA NICOL: Laurie Colwin's book "All the Time" by Laurie Colvin is one of those wryly funny, sharply written, tartly observed books by a smart female author (think Nora Ephron, Curtis Sittenfeld, Katherine Heiny), who acknowledges relationships as the most serious topic of all. Nancy Mitford, whose 1930s-set books The Pursuit Of Love and Love In A Cold Climate, draw on her own social history. Both books depict bad marriages, but one happy coincidence is Uncle Matthew and Aunt Sadie's union, which was modeled on Mitford's own parents, Lord and Lady Redesdale.

Powell began blogging about her attempt to cook every dish in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1. Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen was one of the first food bloggers on the internet, and she went on to write Julie & Julia, one of the first food bloggers, in 2005. Nora Ephron, the late writer and director, turned the book into an Oscar-nominated feature film starring Meryl Steffiep as Child and Amy Adams as Powell. According to her husband, Eric Powell, Powell died of a cardiac arrest on October 26. Powell launched her Julie/Julia Project in the nascent age of internet writing, disillusioned with her low-level administration job in New York and in search of a creative outlet. She narrated her kitchen adventures with spiky humor in a straight, diaristic style. The initiative involved the preparation of all 524 dishes from Child's 1961 French Cooking masterpiece in Long Island City, Queens, which she shared with her husband.