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    Hollywood Mourns Romcom Trailblazer Ephron

    When Harry Met Sally is one of those films from the 1990s you can watch over and over again.

    Remember the line from Harry: "All I'm saying is that somewhere out there is the man you are supposed to marry. And if you don't get him first, somebody else will, and you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that somebody else is married to your husband."

    Or: "You know, you may be the first attractive woman I've not wanted to sleep with in my entire life".

    The writing is brilliant, heartwarming, funny and touching, contributing to a wonderful romantic comedy which came out before the term 'romcom' became a dirty word.

    Sadly, the woman behind that hit and many others, Hollywood screenwriter and director Nora Ephron, has died at the age of 71 from complications relating to acute myeloid leukaemia.

    Norah's 15 film credits have become some of the most popular and quotable movies of the last two decades, with her other films including You've Got Mail, Sleepless In Seattle and Julie and Julia.

    She was nominated for an Oscar three times, such was her talent.

    Born in 1941 in New York, she was told early on by her mother, a Broadway playwright and Hollywood screenwriter, to "take notes, everything is copy". It was advice she clearly took to heart.

    She wrote scripts featuring strong women at a time when Hollywood was predominately male. She was seen as a trailblazer, directing as well as screenwriting and paving the way for a new generation of female film makers.

    Ephron was married three times, once to Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporter who helped uncover the Watergate scandal.

    She turned her divorce from Bernstein into a novel, Heartburn, which was then made into to a movie with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson.

    Her publisher Alfred A Knopf issued a statement, saying: "It is with great sadness that we report that Nora Ephron has died.

    "She brought an awful lot of people a tremendous amount of joy. She will be sorely missed."