Meg Ryan has written a piece for the the July 20 issue of The Hollywood Reporter in which she recalls the joy of her longtime collaboration with the late writer-director. Here’s the beginning, click on the link to read the rest.
“The last time I saw her was at a small dinner party at a mutual friend’s apartment on the Upper East Side. It was funny and fun, the six of us catching up. Those are the nights — you just don’t want them to end. She always had an opinion. A love of the precisely observed moment. She got such a big kick out of people who could turn a phrase. To walk away with something quotable from a night, she just loved it. Her love of words was so ferocious. I love that she was writing a pilot in the hospital. My God! To just keep on saying what you feel. To express her experience in the pithiest, quickest, smartest possible way so as to share. It was her life’s joy. (…)”
This tribute is absolutely beautiful!
Meg’s a great writer and I wish she’d write more articles like this.
Don’t we all?
Did you also read the article she wrote for Elle in 2009, when Nora also wrote for the same issue?