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Two screenwriters from this family made fun of talent agent Sam Cohn’s habit of eating paper in their script for This is My Life. For a play by an author from this family, Marvin Hamlisch composed a tap dance by “Frankie Fact” and “Dick Fiction,” a rag about a fig tree, and other songs by the lovers of Philip Rahv and Dashiell Hammett. This family’s parents, the screenwriting duo Henry and Phoebe, had a child who used (15[1])the mantra “everything is copy.” An author from this family told a “true story” of being given a sex advice book by a (*) boyfriend’s mother in the Esquire essay “A Few Words About Breasts.” An author from this family wrote the plays Lucky Guy (10[1])and Imaginary Friends and the novel Heartburn, based on her marriage to Carl Bernstein. Two screenwriters with this surname co-wrote the play Love, Loss, and What I Wore and a 1998 film updating The Shop Around the Corner. For 10 points, give this surname of the screenwriter sisters of You’ve Got Mail. ■END■ (10[2])

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