In her final years, Nora Ephron happened to notice a promising young writer named Lena Dunham.Maybe it was because she saw herself in the spunky New Yorker or just wanted to take a blossoming writer under her wing, but either way, Ephron reached out to the "
Girls" creator after seeing her independent film "Tiny Furniture." The two became fast friends over lunch, and Ephron became Dunham's mentor. "Nora introduced me to, in no particular ...