Multiple news outlets are reporting that Nora Ephron, the writer-director and queen of romantic comedies who made our city a romantic destination with Sleepless in Seattle, died tonight in Manhattan at the age of 71. The cause was pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia, her son Jacob Bernstein told The New York Times.

Aside from all she did for Tom Hanks’s and Meg Ryan’s careers—and Seattle tourism, for that matter—Ephron was a role model for aspiring female writers and comedians, the kind who loathe the word "comedienne" and imagine that they too can be a wise-cracking journalist/essayist/novelist/playwright/Oscar-nominated screenwriter/movie director someday. She’ll be missed—big time. In honor of her passing, a classic Ephron-penned clip from Sleepless in Seattle. "A very French deja-vu-ish kind of thing…"