“I grew up on it and coveted it desperately. They crossed paths again when Ephron was twenty she remembered the meeting in crisp detail, describing Parker as “frail and tiny and twinkly.” But her encounters with the queen of the bon mot weren’t the point. Ephron first met Parker as a child, in her pajamas, at her screenwriter parents’ schmoozy Hollywood parties. Ephron was then thirty-two, and her subject was the particular clichéd ambition of becoming Dorothy Parker, a writer she had idolized in her youth.
“I have spent a great deal of my life discovering that my ambitions and fantasies-which I once thought of as totally unique-turn out to be clichés,” Nora Ephron wrote in 1973, in a column for Esquire.
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