Some of the story is the same - they both are anonymously writing to each other, he finds out, then tries to make her like him for himself before revealing the truth. Clearly Ephrons Nora and Delia are not Lubitsch - no one was, not even Billy Wilder. (I have heard that even Lubitsch wasn't Lubitsch. But more on that later.) Obviously they were trying for another Sleepless in Seattle, and one thing they replicated from that is that Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan don't get together until the very ending, but that's actually true too of James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.
Louise Brooks on Sullavan is always worth repeating: "Do you know my favourite actress? The person I wish I could be if I were anyone? You'll never guess.. She was very special in her appearance, her voice was exquisite and far away, almost like an echo. She was an excellent actress, completely unique. She killed herself... Margaret Sullavan. This wonderful voice of hers - strange, fey, mysterious - like a voice singing in the snow." (Kevin Brownlow, 'The Parade's Gone By'.) Don't you love that - her voice 'was almost like an echo'.
Every time Q sees Steve Zahn she says 'I like him but I don't know who he is'.
We both thought the new bookstore should have sold everything but children's books.
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