Discuss “The woman who made orgasms awkward”

Nora Ephron may be 65, but she still has the chutzpah to work a crowd. She demonstrated this while speaking about her writing career this past Wednesday at Heinz Hall in the Cultural District as part of the Pittsburgh Speakers Series. The critically acclaimed screenwriter, most notably of the Academy Award-nominated When Harry Met Sally, had the crowd in hysterics over everything from parenting skills to orgasms.

Ephron, daughter of screenwriter parents, admits it was her mother who sparked her interest in writing. “When someone was mean to me in school, I would run home to tell my mother, but she wouldn’t hear it. ‘Everything is copy,’ my mother would say. ‘When you can turn your sorrow into comedy, then I’ll listen.’ ”...