Nora Ephron's wacky observations on email

Here's a quiz -- Nora Ephron's New York Times op-ed about the idiosyncrasies of email (it's a new medium! I get a lot of spam! I have too many messages in my inbox!), which could been published in 1999, is:

(a) A column Ephron submitted to the Times that they held for a decade or so (remember, her movie "You've Got Mail" came out in 1998);
(b) A reflection of how far Ephron is from the cultural zeitgeist;
(c) A reflection of how far Times editors are from the cultural zeitgeist; or
(d) A reflection of how far Times editors think their readers are from the cultural zeitgeist.

Next week: Fran Drescher muses about how loudly people talk on cell phones.

Comments

[Rob]

(e) None of the above. Andrew Rosenthal and Nora were at this divine party on the Vineyard and Nora happened to mention how she had her eye on an absolutely killer Prada bag but didn't feel right spending $2500 on it. "Nonsense," said Andrew, "just knock out some little piece of shit for the op-ed page and you can get that bag and a Fendi belt to go with it. It will be Pinch's pleasure." And so everyone on the Vineyard went to bed happy that night, and the moon shone bright on the Upper West Side.

[Ben]

Don't forget that this is the woman whose last film was a horrible update of the '60s sitcom "Bewitched."
Compared to that, this op-ed is both hilarious and cutting edge.

[Lou D.]

Answer: B, C & D.

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