The thing about Nora Ephron was that if she had played herself in almost any of her movies, she would have easily been the smartest, funniest and most interesting character in the film.

Her parents were Hollywood screen writers responsible for the screen adaptation of Desk Set, and while Ephron had, as her NYTimes obit notes, softened the edges when writing for the screen, it's easy to believe that whatever comes out of the Rob Marshall/Johnny Depp collaboration on The Thin Man remake will seem like mush compared to what she might have made from it. 

Ephron was even married to a man named Nick.

It was always too late for that kind of wishful thinking; however maybe someone will grant Ephron what she thought would be her dying wish, to have her play about Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman, 2003's Imaginery Friends, revived.