Bewitching Woman ; Nora Ephron Had a Glittering Career in Political Journalism Before Becoming Hollywood's Rom Com Queen. Now She has Remade a Sixties Sitcom. Why? Because It's All About Female Power, She Says

Evening Standard - London › July 14, 2005

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NORA EPHRON spent last Saturday in a New York hotel talking up Bewitched, her big-screen reinvention of the Sixties sitcom about a suburban housewife with secret special powers and a twitchy nose.

It's a rare opportunity to meet a filmmaker whose movie is already in cinemas. It isn't released in the UK until next month, but, unfortunately, the US opening of the hopeful "summer hit" has met with less than ecstatic reviews and a boxoffice take of $50 million so far - disappointing for the star-studded Bewitched, which cost a reported $80 million to produce.

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Bewitching Woman ; Nora Ephron Had a Glittering Career in Political Journalism Before Becoming Hollywood's Rom Com Queen. Now She has Remade a Sixties Sitcom. Why? Because It's All About Female Power, She Says

But Ephron doesn't seem worried.

First, she doesn't read reviews, she says, and second, she wouldn't have done anything differently. "I would never have been interested in a straight remake of Bewitched and I love that we tried to do something that was inventive and reinventive and not the us...

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