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Sorry for not updating the site sooner. I have added several recent magazine clippings to the gallery. They are from UK’s Total Film Magazine, US People Magazine and Globe Magazine.
Time for another Throwback Thursday picture. This time from When Harry Met Sally, still as great as it was over twenty years ago when it was released. Remember the text on the pictures?
In an interview this week with Moviefone, Helen Mirren was asked about the short comedy skit ‘When Harry Met Sally II’ that she did with Billy Crystal last year.
Q: Can you shed some light on “When Harry Met Sally 2”? How did you get involved in that?
A: [Laughs] “Oh, Billy Crystal rung me up and asked me and I just thought it’d be a funny thing to do. It taught me a lesson on how brilliant Meg Ryan was. Because when you’re trying to recreate what she did it was sort of impossible. Because she was so good at it! Her timing and everything was so brilliant. She is a great comedienne and it was very difficult to emulate her.”
Very very sad news today: Nora Ephron died last night in New York at the age of 71. She had been suffering from accute leukemia, her family has revealed. Norah Ephron was famous and succesful as a writer and director. She wrote the script for When Harry Met Sally and directed Meg and Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail.
Meg was one of the many celebrities, including Billy Crystal, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, who have reacted on the news of her death. Here is Meg’s statement:
“Nora was an era. We pictured ourselves inside her dreams and they became ours. All wisdom, wit and sparkle lights, what a treat she was, what a blessing. I marvel again and again, what a life… To have created a simple happiness in people, to have added to the sum of delight in the world.”
Entertainment Weekly’s Popwatch website has several of the best movie scenes from a.o. You’ve Got Mail and When Harry Meg Sally up at their site. Visit their website with this link. Here’s one example (yes, it’s been posted before, but you can never see this scene too many times!):
Meg’s bf John Mellencamp also paid tribute to Nora Ephron last night. He dedicated one of the songs that he played at his concert in Thunder Bay, Canada to her, called ‘Longest Days’.
The website Starring NYC has a great feature about the restaurants featured in some of Meg’s most famous movies. Check out their article and see pix and moviefootage from When Harry Met Sally (Katz’s Delicatessen), You’ve Got Mail (Cafe Lalo) and others!!
“Before Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston started vying for the crown, Meg Ryan held the uncontested title of America’s sweetheart. Two of her most successful movies, When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail, featured memorable New York City restaurant scenes. The eateries have changed in appearance since then, but even more than a decade later, they still attract plenty of Meg Ryan fans.(…)” SEE THE FOOTAGE AND PHOTOS
Another ‘blast from the past’! I found this video of an old television interview dating back to probably 1990, when Meg was doing interviews for the release of ‘When Harry Met Sally’.
Another ‘golden oldies’ photos post today! Someone was kind enough to send me these photos of Meg with Billy Crystal and director Rob Reiner from back when When Harry Met Sally was filmed in the late eighties. I hope you enjoy seeing these! Made me want to re-watch WHMS.
∞ Movie promotion ∞ When Harry Met Sally
Website Moviefone has an funny article about When Harry Met Sally today, called: ’21 Reasons Why ‘When Harry Met Sally’s’ New Year’s Eve is Better Than Yours’. Visit their website to read all those 21 reasons! Plus they also posted a clip with the famous last five minutes of our favorite romcom, taking place on New Year’s eve in NYC. Wishing eveyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
There was an excellent article in the November issue of the UK’s Empire Magazine about ‘When Harry Met Sally’. They picked the movie for their Masterpiece section. Happy Thanksgiving Day to our US vistors!!
∞ Magazines ∞ Empire Magazine
Meg’s friend Carrie Fisher talked about taping one of the scenes for When Harry Met Sally in a recent interview with The Globe and Mail, while promoting her theatre show ‘Wishful Drinking’:
Q. (…) Everyone associates you with Princess Leia, of course, but my personal favourite role of yours was Marie in When Harry Met Sally. How difficult was it to film that scene where you and Bruno Kirby are on the phone at the same time with Harry [Billy Crystal] and Sally [Meg Ryan]?
A. “Oh my God. Horrible. We were all in one soundstage, all four of us. So that means me and Bruno in bed, Meg somewhere, and Billy somewhere. And we all have to do it in real time. It’s not edited; we did it as a play. And so we did it like 40 or 50 times. Crazy. So finally [director] Rob [Reiner] goes ‘Okay we got it.’ And Bruno says ‘I think I want another one.’ And I said ‘You’ll get that one alone, sir.’ It was hard. I don’t like doing things that are hard. But it was worth it.” (…)
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