. ♪ ♪ charlie: nora ephron was a essayist,lmmaker, novelist, and journalist.as more than that. friend of this program. she died at the age of 71 after a very private battle with leukemia. her son, jacob, follows her life in a new documentary, "everything is copy: nora ephron, scripted and unscripted ." coming monday on hbo and here's the trailer for the film. writers are cannibal, they really are. if you say anything good and if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble. [laughter] she was a very smart filmmaker, writer, reporter, really true writing is impossibly hard. herhen: i wanted to make laugh. it was just like winning an oscar. don't know if people think i am an expert in relationships, but i definitely am. sometimes i wish my husband were dead. merv: sure, sure. jane: nora ephron's first novel, asking,rn" has people "nora, is this your life?" divorce, she cried for six months, but she wrote about it, and she wrote it honey, and in writing it funny, in -- wrote it funny, and writing it funny, she won. that my mother used to say whenever some