![]() ![]() Of course, reading it 20 years later, and two years after Ephron’s death, is probably the best way to digest the book. That’s the kind of wit that fills up the pages of Heartburn, a slim novel that packs a heavy punch - even two decades after its publication - in less than 200 pages. If the dingo eats your baby, call Meryl.” If you get rear-ended in a parking lot, have Meryl Streep play you. ![]() “If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl to play you. “I highly recommend Meryl Streep play you,” she quipped. ![]() Ephron herself joked about the film years later at Meryl Streep’s AFI Lifetime Achievement tribute. It’s a near-perfect film, with Meryl Streep as Rachel Samstat, who is blindsided while several months pregnant when she discovers that her husband, Mark Feldman (played by Jack Nicholson), is in love with another woman. I did, however, watch the movie it’s based on, and for which Ephron wrote the screenplay, several times. ![]() I didn’t reread Nora Ephron’s only novel, Heartburn, last summer when my fiancé broke off our engagement, leaving me to move out of his Brooklyn apartment and onto a friend’s couch on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. ![]()
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