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诺拉?艾芙隆:无法忘却纪念她似乎什么都要去做：记者、作家、电影编剧、剧作家、导演、美食家、妻子、母亲……她是《当哈利遇上莎莉》、《电子情书》、《西雅图夜未眠》的编剧，也是后两部电影的导演，在以男性为主导的文学界和电影界，诺拉·艾芙隆因其才智而赢得广泛的热爱和尊重。她在作品中从未掩饰自己的烦恼、痛苦和焦虑，而是将其升华为一种幽默，看似轻松，实则机智。这位具有多重身份的杰出女性在2012年6月27日因病去世，她的作品，无论是电影、小说还是随笔，都使我们对她无比怀念。 Dry skin. Email. Panels on “Women in Film1）.” These are just some of the things the great and， unbelievably， now late Nora Ephron included in her list of “Things I wont miss” in her last collection of essays， the mortality—tinged2） I Remember Nothing. Unfortunately for the rest of us， its a list that serves as a reminder of how much Ephron herself will be missed. For a start， it sounds a little like a whistlestop tour3） of topics that have featured in Ephrons five decades—long career as a journalist， screenwriter and essayist. Few people wrote about body insecurities as shrewdly4） and hilariously as Ephron， from the smallness of her breasts in her 1972 essay “A Few Words About Breasts，” included in the collection Crazy Salad to the amount of effort a woman needs to put into looking vaguely decent in “On Maintenance，” from her 2006 collection of essays I Feel Bad About My Neck. Email， of course， was the plot motor in Youve Got Mail， one of several comedies she wrote starring Meg Ryan， and the combination of these two women briefly resuscitated5） the kind of smart screwball comedies6） the US film industry hadnt produced since the days of Rosalind Russell7） and Katharine Hepburn8）. Ephron made a huge contribution to film， but there was nothing po—faced9）， nothing “panels on Women in Film’” about it. She was， after all， a feminist who satirised the overly solemn and self—defeating aspects of feminism， such as Betty Friedan10）s baffling determination to start fights with Gloria Steinem11）. And there was her unforgettable description of a womens consciousness group in her 1972 essay， “Vaginal Politics，” also from Crazy Salad： “We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy， and the era when happiness was a dry martini，