![]() ![]() Three years later, Delia Ephron’s husband of more than three decades, Jerome Kass, a theater, film and television writer, died of prostate cancer. In 2012, Nora Ephron died of leukemia, a death that shocked the world because she had kept her long illness a secret from everyone except a few friends and family members. Even for one of the four daughters of Phoebe and Henry Ephron, the tart-tongued screenwriting couple behind “Carousel and “Desk Set.” ![]() The story behind Delia Ephron’s latest book, “Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life,” began sweetly, like the romantic comedies Ephron wrote with her sister, Nora Ephron, the beloved author, director and screenwriter of “You’ve Got Mail” and “Sleepless in Seattle.”īut the delay that drew out Ephron’s happy ending - the sine qua non of the narrative trope that is the Marriage Plot - was so catastrophic that if she had pitched the story to a studio executive, they would have turned it down as being too much, too over the top. ![]()
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