As Ilana Kaplan put the finishing touches on her debut book "Nora Ephron at the Movies," she was planning a celebration that many of the acclaimed and beloved filmmaker's own characters pine for.

Nora Ephron was a Jewish American screenwriter ... Nora adored her third husband and doted on her two sons. She was fiercely egalitarian. But she loved being a woman, mother, best friend and ...

What do Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Nora Ephron have in common? No, not a shared affinity for bloodletting, mayhem and a chaotic universe. That would make them generic. What they ...