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("Coming Around Again" by Carly Simon) (background music)

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Ladies and Gentlemen...Nora Ephron!

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I loved working with Meryl Streep.

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First, I worked with her on "Silkwood."

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Alice Arlen and I did a script for her.

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Karen Dinesen, Karen Silkwood, and the Polish person and the Danish person, blah, blah, blah...

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But the true stretch, if I do say so, was playing me in "Heartburn."

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I highly recommend having Meryl Streep play you.

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If your husband is cheating on you with a car hop, get Meryl to play you. You will feel much better.

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If you get rear ended in a parking lot, have Meryl Streep play you. If the dingo eats your baby, call Meryl.

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She plays all of us better than we play ourselves.

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Although, it's a little depressing knowing that if you went to audition to play yourself you would lose out to her.

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Some days, when I am having a hard day, I call up Meryl and she'll come and she'll step in for me.

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She's so good people don't really notice.

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I call her at the end of the day and found out how I did and inevitably, it's one of the best days I've ever had!

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You have no idea how much work goes into being as good as Meryl is, or for making it look as effortless as she makes it look, but I do!

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...because one night, while we were making "Heartburn" I went into her trailer, she wasn't expecting me...

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she wasn't in costume, and she wasn't wearing make-up;

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She turned out to be a 63 year old Asian woman named Chepauk!

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So, Chepauk!

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Tonight, we honour YOU!