The FIVE Stages of Fame
Before NORA EPHRON wrote such films as When Harry Met Sally..., Silkwood, and Sleepless in Seattle, she was one of Esquire’s most brilliant voices, a contributing editor who trained her observant gaze on the peculiarities of our culture. Her first Esquire piece ran in February 1970; her final, which appeared in June 1989, is this witty and shrewd dissection of fame and all its trappings— as embodied, especially, by a man who, twenty-seven years later, would become the most famous person in the world: Donald J. Trump.
Before NORA EPHRON wrote such films as When Harry Met Sally..., Silkwood, and Sleepless in Seattle, she was one of Esquire’s most brilliant voices, a contributing editor who trained her observant gaze on the peculiarities of our culture. Her first Esquire piece ran in February 1970; her final, which appeared in June 1989, is this witty and shrewd dissection of fame and all its trappings— as embodied, especially, by a man who, twenty-seven years later, would become the most famous person in the world: Donald J. Trump.
