Imaginary Friends A Play with Music

Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" The public battle, and the legal squabbling, that ensued ended, unsatisfactorily for all, with Hellman's death. InImaginary Friends,Nora Ephron brilliantly and hilariously resuscitates these two bigger-than-life women to give them a post-mortem second act, and the chance to really air their differences.

Nora Ephron is the author of <b>Crazy Salad, Heartburn, Wallflower at the Orgy</b>, and <b>Scribble Scribble</b>. She has received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay for <i>When Harry Met Sally</i>, <i>Silkwood</i>, and <i>Sleepless in Seattle</i>, which she also directed. She lives in New York City with her husband, writer Nicholas Pileggi.