When Harry Met Sally (14 page)
SALLY
    Well, maybe it just means that we should remember that we forgot them or something. Anyway, it's about old friends.
They start to kiss again
.
And as the camera PULLS UP away from them:
HARRY
   Â
(Voice-over)
    The first time we met we hated each other.
SALLY
   Â
(Voice-over)
    You didn't hate me, I hated you.
(beat)
    And the second time we met, you didn't even remember me.
HARRY
   Â
(Voice-over)
    I did too, I remembered you.
(a long beat)
    The third time we met, we became friends.
SALLY
   Â
(Voice-over)
    We were friends for a long time.
HARRY
   Â
(Voice-over)
    And then we weren't.
SALLY
   Â
(Voice-over)
    And then we fell in love.
CUT TO
:
A
    COUPLE
ON A LOVE SEAT
HARRY and SALLY together
.
SALLY
    Three months later we got married.
HARRY
    It only took three months.
SALLY
    Twelve years and three months.
HARRY
    We had this ⦠really wonderful wedding.
SALLY
    It really was.
HARRY
    It was great. We had this enormous coconut cake.
SALLY
    Huge coconut cake with the tiers, and there was this very rich chocolate sauce on the side.
HARRY
    Right. Because not everybody likes it on the cake, because it makes it very soggy.
SALLY
    Particularly coconut. It soaks up a lot of that stuff. It's important to keep it on the side.
HARRY
    Right â¦
And as they continue on, weâ
FADE OUT
.
THE END
Nora Ephron is the author of the huge bestseller
I Feel Bad About My Neck
as well as
Heartburn
,
Crazy Salad
,
Wallflower at the Orgy
, and
Scribble Scribble
. She recently wrote and directed the hit movie
Julie & Julia
and has received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay for
When Harry Met Sally
,
Silkwood
, and
Sleepless in Seattle
, which she also directed. Her other credits include the current stage hit
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
. She lives in New York City with her husband, writer Nicholas Pileggi.
B
OOKS BY
N
ORA
E
PHRON
F
ICTION
Heartburn
E
SSAYS
I Feel Bad About My Neck
Nora Ephron Collected
Scribble Scribble
Crazy Salad
Wallflower at the Orgy
D
RAMA
Imaginary Friends
S
CREENPLAYS
Bewitched
(with Delia Ephron)
Hanging Up
(with Delia Ephron)
You've Got Mail
(with Delia Ephron)
Michael
(with Jim Quinlan, Pete Dexter, and Delia Ephron)
(with Delia Ephron)
Sleepless in Seattle
(with David S. Ward and Jeff Arch)
This is My Life
(with Delia Ephron)
My Blue Heaven
When Harry Met Sally . . .
Cookie
(with Alice Arlen)
Heartburn
Silkwood
(with Alice Arlen)
N
ORA
E
PHRON
HEARTBURN
Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has “a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs” is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes.
Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-76795-4
I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK
Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. She hates her chaotic mess of a purse. She searches for the divinely flaky cabbage strudel of her youth and finds it 23 years later. She endures the daily tribulations of feminine maintenance: removing unwanted hair, moisturizing patches of skin the consistency of a loofah, and recovering from treadmill injuries. Utterly courageous, uproariously funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth-telling,
I Feel Bad About My Neck
is a scrumptious, irresistible treat of a book, full of laugh-out-loud moments that will appeal to readers of all ages.
Humor/Essays/978-0-307-27682-7
IMAGINARY FRIENDS
Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, “including âand' and âthe'.” The public battle and the legal squabbling that ensued ended, unsatisfactorily for all, with Hellman's death. Ephron brilliantly resuscitates these two bigger-than-life woman to give them a post-mortem second act, and the chance to really air their differences.
Fiction/Literature/978-1-4000-3422-2
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Copyright © 1990 by Castle Rock Entertainment
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Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Williamson Music Co.:
Excerpts from “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top” (from
Oklahoma
) by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ephron, Nora.
When Harry met Sallyâ / Nora Ephron.â1st ed.
p.    cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-76594-9
I. Title.
PN1997.W466
   Â
1990
791.43â²72âdc20Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 89-43595
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