Carl Bernstein's Reaction To The Movie...
A few weeks ago, I watched HEARTBURN and took the time to express my thoughts on the movie in the User Comments. I.E. "Not a Bad Movie But Could Have Been Better." While I still feel the same way, I have often wondered what Carl Bernstein's reaction to the final film was as Nora Ephron (his ex-wife) based the movie on their marriage together and Jack Nicholson's character in the movie was loosely based on him (Bernstein). I had read in the book "Jack's Life" by Patrick McGilligan, which was a biography on Jack Nicholson, that while filming, Carl Bernstein was outraged that he was being portrayed as the heavy in this film and did everything he could to challenge the writers and have them downplay his supposed character's bad behavior. Hence, many of the scenes were constantly being re-written on a day to day basis. Anyhow, does anybody know what Bernstein thought of the final project? Also, I wonder what Nora Ephron's feeling about the rendered project was. While I have not read anything indicating her thoughts on the final project, I get the feeling it was quite different from what she and Mike Nichols (the director) had intended when they began filming the movie. Also, while I have never read Nora Ephron's book by the same title, it is my understanding that Bernstein was not happy about it at all, much less the fact that this was being turned into a feature length film. Meanwhile, I would be interested to read other people's comments about Bernstein's reaction (or Ephron's for that matter) towards this movie.
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