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The world lost Nora Ephron four years back, and for those of you who do not know, Ephron was a wordsmith who liked to use words as if they were lavender-colored.
Born to Hollywood screenwriters, Ephron came of age in the golden years of print journalism, and went on to become one of America's leading.

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The 25 Best HBO Documentaries of All Time

If you're someone who thinks that Netflix is the streaming service wearing the documentaries crown right about now, you need to remember who the OG is. HBO was churning out incredible true stories before Netflix was even a big-ass red box outside your grocery store. We're talking pre-Redbox, y'all. HBO has been doing the work for years.

Seriously. As far back as 1996's Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, HBO has been freaking out its subscribers with true crime stories that are just as harrowing today. When the new century hit, HBO also started pioneering in the sports-doc genre, giving us Hard Knocks—and later on, incredible profiles of sports legends like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Tiger Woods.

Of course, there's all the weird, but can't-look-away shit in between, from Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief to Class Action Park. Frankly, it makes attempting to decide the best of HBO's documentary slate an impossible task. We took a shot at it anyway. Here are the 25 best HBO documentaries of all

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What Nora Ephron's Son Jacob Bernstein Learned About His Late Mother While Making the Documentary 'Everything Is Copy'

If anyone is perfectly equipped to make a moving and balanced documentary about trailblazing author-journalist-screenwriter-director Nora Ephron, it’s her son, Jacob Bernstein. Not just because of the family connection, but because the first-time filmmaker is also a journalist who approached his subject with extreme care and objectivity.

Everything Is Copy, now airing on HBO, is a 90-minute documentary named for the Sleepless in Seattle writer/director’s life motto: that everything that happens in life, no matter good or bad, has the potential to become a great story. Bernstein’s narrative explores his mother’s philosophy and her legacy through a series of stock footage from Ephron’s many TV appearances, excerpts from her audio books, and interviews with people who knew her best, including Meryl Streep, Meg Ryan and Rosie O’Donnell.

“Most of the people who are celebrities and were friends of my mother’s are not close friends of mine,” Bernst

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NORA EPHRON • EVERYTHING IS COPY

EVERYTHING IS COPY
The world lost Nora Ephron four years back, and for those of you who do not know, Ephron was a wordsmith who liked to use words as if they were lavender-colored blow darts that she would hurl at the behavior she observed between men and women. Born to Hollywood screenwriters who both drank and dealt with the crash-and-burn of their Hollywood careers rather badly, Nora Ephron started her professional life as a journalist, turned essayist, turned novelist, turned screenwriter, before becoming a well known film director.

Often harshly critical, Nora hid her observations on Adam and Eve by using words in a flowery conversational way, like the way writer Dorothy Parker might have done if she had surrounded herself with much happier friends.

One of Nora's friends, (at least when the pair met and married) was her second husband Carl Bernstein, who many of you over a certain age will remember as the Washington Post journalist who co-authored the investigative journalism that outed "Watergate" and its many N