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Topic: When Harry Met Sally

Rob Reiner watches as Harry Connick Jr. sings for the soundtrack to the movie "When Harry Met Sally," circa 1989. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rob Reiner gave music the spotlight

Andi Zeisler
Atmosphere at the after party for Sony Pictures Classics and The Cinema Society's special screening of "Eleanor the Great" held at Katz's Delicatessen (Adela Loconte/Variety via Getty Images)

Rob Reiner, remembered at Katz’s Deli

Francesca Giangiulio
Billy Crystal as Harry Burns and Meg Ryan as Sally Albright in "When Harry Met Sally" (Columbia Pictures)

Rob Reiner's everlasting message of love

Coleman Spilde
Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in a football stadium (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

11 Super Bowl 2025 commercials

Nardos Haile
Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal pose for the movie "When Harry Met Sally" circa 1989. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What "When Harry Met Sally" makes us ask

Melanie McFarland
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in a scene from the film 'Joe Versus The Volcano', 1990. (Warner Brothers/Getty Images)

Meg Ryan's best romantic films

Nardos Haile
Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal pose for the movie "When Harry Met Sally" circa 1989. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

We need "When Harry Met Sally" in fall

Nardos Haile
(Julia Gartland / Food52)

Lessons from Nora Ephron’s "Heartburn"

Noëlle De Leeuw - Food52
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally"

8 fascinating facts about Nora Ephron

Lana Schwartz - Mental Floss
(Columbia Pictures)

Sally's fake orgasm was a group effort

Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Carrie Fisher in "When Harry Met Sally" (Columbia Pictures)

Carrie Fisher, scene stealer

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Nora Ephron (AP/Gino Domenico)

What women really wanted

Rebecca Traister
Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson in "Heartburn"

Nora Ephron, revolutionary

Andrew O'Hehir
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally"

Would Sally fake that orgasm?

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Willa Paskin
Nora Ephron (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Salon Staff
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally..."

When Harry met Sally -- and ruined the rom-com

Andrew O'Hehir