Bernstein had an affair with the wife of the British ambassador, while Ephron was pregnant with their second child. Heartburn is famously based on Nora Ephron’s own marriage to Carl Bernstein (of All the President’s Men fame). Cooking is impossible and the first meals we see eaten in the house are Chinese takeaway and pizza (eaten from the box, with the help of a brick trowel), while the couple bicker about the state of the house, the inadequacies of their Hungarian builder and Rachel’s dislike of the Washington social scene.įollowing the birth of their first child, things settle down, at least for a while. The walls are bare and hollow, the kitchen is only accessible by going out into the back garden and the roof constantly drips water. The house is something of a fixer-upper (“We got a good price on it… they had a sort of… fire….”, Rachel tells their friends). Cut to their wedding (where Rachel has to overcome severe cold feet before eventually saying ‘I do’), before moving swiftly to their new home in Washington. Mark responds that when they’re married he wants this once a week. PIzza – eaten with the aid of a bricklayer’s trowel
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