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Ephron co-authored and directed the 1998 movie, You've Got Mail , a somewhat flatfooted update of the charming 1940 Ernst Lubitsch movie The Shop Around the Corner (which was also the source material for the even more charming 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me ). You've Got Mail updated the earlier film's epistolary plot (two shopkeepers hate each other by day, each not knowing the other is the correspondent to whom he/she sends anonymous love letters by night) for the Internet age; in the new version, the two swapped messages via AOL.
I didn't spot microphones in Being John Malkovich (depending on how a film is masked, you can see microphones in movies by the greatest directors and cinematographers), but there are flatfooted patches and a distinct falling off in the last half hour (despite some marvelous puppet work).
Late in the program Russert catches Gore flatfooted.