From Charles McGrath’s NYT remembrance of Nora Ephron, emphasis added:

Nora Ephron, an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold (only smarter and funnier, some said) who became one of her era’s most successful screenwriters and filmmakers, making romantic comedy hits like “Sleepless in Seattle” and “When Harry Met Sally,” died Tuesday night in Manhattan.

I challenge Mr. McGrath to name anyone, other than himself—since that’s obviously who he’s referring to*—who would seriously argue that Nora Ephron, as talented as she was, was smarter and funnier than Dorothy Parker. I mean, has he seen Bewitched?
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* On rereading, I think this may be unfair to McGrath. That parenthetical feels like the kind of thing an editor with a strong personal opinion might insert after McGrath has gone to sleep…