On the DVD
The Collector's Edition offers seven new featurettes (the previous Special Edition only had one documentary)?? beginning with a sit-down between director Rob Reiner and writer Nora Ephron waxing nostalgic on how the movie originated: He?? recently divorced from Penny Marshall?? was a miserable single man?? while she was the screenwriter who rejected his initial pitch over lunch ("s a shame??"she remembers?? "ecause we hadn't even eaten yet."). It's easy to see that Reiner is clearly Harry?? and Ephron is clearly Sally: He's the squawking chatterbox and she's constantly corrects his memory (Sally's meticulous method of ordering food is also a direct rip-off of Ephron herself). Other featurettes show Billy Crystal's attempts to play Harry (or Reiner?? as it were); location filming in New York; the love stories that served as interludes between scenes (again?? the counselors-at-camp story is from Ephron's parents); the significance of the film over time; and more discussion on the film's famous question: " men and women really be friends?" Most of the stories from the featurettes are recycled in the new film commentary by Reiner?? Ephron?? and Crystal (Reiner mentions that the "ll have what she's having" line?? spoken by his mother?? is in the top 10 of AFI's top 100 movie lines no less than five times overall)?? but the inclusion of Crystal?? who contributed many improvised lines in the movie?? makes for a nice easygoing repartee. Fans may be interested to know that Reiner originally thought Harry and Sally shouldn't get together?? until he himself fell in love with his futur