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Mon 04 Apr 2007Raging against the ageing industryNora Ephron's life is the raw material for her best selling books, Oscar-nominated films and razor-sharp blogs. Now the ageing industry has got her goat, she tells Emma BrockesBefore she became a magazine writer, and long before she was a screenwriter and a Hollywood film director, Nora Ephron did five years hard labour as a reporter on the New York Post. It was her first writing job out of college and - this was the Post in its pre-Murdoch days - it provided a sort of grungy foundation for the rest of her career.