it was written by nora ephron. it was about the late new york tabloid journalist mike mcalary, with two of the stars tom hanks and cotney b. vance, director george c wolf, and nora ephron's son jacob bernstein. >> he had a fantasy about what he did. it is a fantasy, but it did overtake the pessism at the end of the day that he was a knight and he writed wrongs. at the end of the day, the journalists, the tabloid journalists, that's what they did. they saw injustice and they fought for the good guy. they saw corruption and fought against the bad guy. i think that's what he set out to do fromhe mont that he decided to sit down at a type writer and tell somebody else's story. >> rose: we conclude this evening with my conversation with bono in which we talk about his band u2, and his music and songwriting. >> music played a role for me, it's probably the looking out my window, and listening to music, having, you know, bob dylan or john lennon or bob marley later, you know, whispering words of descent and encouragement

. >> reporter: the play is by nora ephron who died just this past june.arlier written and directed two big hits with hanks >> shall we? reporter: sleepless in seattle. >> do you think we should meet? reporter: and you've got mail. still, hanks was not enthusiastic when nora ephron approached him with the idea of doing what was first going to be a movie about mike macalary. you said you didn't really care for this. >> i hated this. and i hated the guy. i hated mike. i said i see no reason to portray tabloid journalists in any brand of light that is flattering. i think they're all jerks and i hate them all because they ruin my day. >> reporter: but by 2011 when nora ephron had turned the story into a play, he saw it differently. >> this was about the working life of journalists which is quite frankly different. and it was in her voice and it was with her affection for the job that i had never seen before. >> reporter: as you worked on it and developed and all that, did you have any idea that she was sick. >> nope, no. it was only after we lost her that the

it was written by nora ephron.was about the late new york tabloid journalist mike mcalary, with two of the stars tom hanks and cotney b. vance, director george c wolf, and nora ephron's son jacob bernstein. >> he had a fantasy about what he did. it is a fantasy, but it did overtake the pessism at the end of the day that he was a knight and he writed wrongs. at the end of the day, the journalists, the tabloid journalists, that's what they did. they saw injustice and they fought for t

list-making self, that it worked when the kids didn't exist, but now have to accept, you know, you quote nora ephrons embrace the messiness of life, embrace the mess. be complicated, but rejoice in the complications, and don't be frightened, you can change your mind. i know, identify had four career -- i've had four careers and three husbands. so you, ultimately, in the book say under the enormous pressure of this because, you know, you're running this extraordinary structure that you built at google, you obviously have help, but you're under enormous pressure even with the perfect husband. you decided to sort of meeter your time, right? >> yeah. >> and you had to give something up. did you give up organization? [laughter] obviously, your work performance didn't suffer, i know, because i would have told you. so you managed to sort of pull it off. how did you do it? >> i think what happened, it's funny, i was in europe two weeks ago, and the man said you want to hire the post efficient person out there, hire a mother. she said i'm going to work 8 to 3, i want a full-time salary, and i'm going to be y

. >> so mika, the remarkable part of this book that you've written are the interviews -- from nora ephron your difficulties. but talk about chris christie, getting very emotional talking. >> well, it's frustrating for him. you know, do you -- it must be -- he can't even explain to the point of frustration how hard it is to be called horrible names, to be called undisciplined, to be taunted, to be bullied online and for people to make fun of him for something he has been trying everything, everything. and this surgery, which i'm proud of him for getting, is the last option for a lot of people. my collaborator on the book, diane smith, she almost got the surgery. did the last measures right before it. and that's how hard it is to lose weight once you've become obese, because the chips are stacked against you in our food environment. we have to learn about it, and we have to push through this. we have to talk about it. >> no doubt. all right. >> not be afraid. >> michael, emily, thank you very much. coming up next, what, if anything, did we learn today. we have to continue this conversation.

a young nora ephron in town cause hot. >> tell us about the character you play?some said i hated him. there was a thing that he said which says writing a column in new york city, everything else is second place. he wanted to be a guy that you read his column and talked about for the rest of the day. he wanted to be the subject of did you hear what he wrote today. sometimes he was and sometimes he wasn't. i talked to some friends whose dad worked in the police department in the public relations division. they said my dad hated mike with every fiber of my being. >> he wanted to be what everybody else wanted to be. >> he wanted to be the be all and end all. >> i knew him pretty well. talked to him a lot. talked to nora about him. >> love him? like him? hate him? >> he was a complex guy who became more complex. to see the play is a vivid, vivid portrait of who he was. and as tom just said he's the kind of guy who would miss a subway stop in order to see if anybody was reading them. >> i have notes that were sent to me -- the columnist, a guy wrote a book in which it