106: This is My Life

See Also

We're re-releasing our This Is My Life episode after our sold out screenings of the film in Melbourne earlier this week. (Thank you all for coming!) It's a real trip down memory line, taking us back to episode 20 of the pod, to 2022, to the coining of the term POODLE EPISODE!!

Here's what we wrote about it then:

This week, Kate and Brodie are talking about The Girls™️: Nora, Meg, Samantha and Gabby. It's our first Toy Poodle Episode (you'll see why) and it's all about Nora Ephron's 1992 directorial debut, This is My Life. There might not be Also Alsos this week, but don't worry, there's still plenty of further reading and ideas to Add To Cart – or at least Open in New Tab.

Starring Julie "literal Marge Simpson" Kavner as hopeful stand-up comic Dottie Ingils, and Samantha Mathis and Gabby Hoffman as her daughters Erica and Opel, This is My Life is about everything that matters: mums! daughters! sisters! ambition! Carrie Fisher!

Co-written by Nora and her sister Delia, the film was adapted from Meg Wolitzer's novel This is Your Life. As a special treat for us and you, Meg was kind enough to write in to See Also with her memories of having her book adapted by Nora.

See Alsos

• Samantha Mathis on River Phoenix and her career revival
• The Chelsea Hotel Had Its Own Eloise
• Seeing Nora Everywhere
• Girl Talk: Lena Dunham on Her Brooklyn Movie Series
• Sam Cohn's obituary
• One of Jinxy's "everything is material" moments
• Meg Wolitzer on What Happens When a Book’s Character Comes to Life

Watch Also

• Hacks
• Muppets Take Manhattan
• The Hairy Bird (aka Strike! aka All I Wanna Do)
• The Wife
• Everything is Copy
• Pump up The Volume
• The Thing Called Love
• C'mon C'mon

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