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 ‘Playmates’ - February 27, 2024 - Vanity Fair

Her parents didn’t gel with the families at school, so for 10 years she went to the Hefners’ place with her nanny. The writer-director looks back on swimming in the infamous grotto with her eyes open—before she knew what sex, let alone a sex cave, even was.

‘The Mary Poppins of Mulholland Drive’ - January 24, 2025 - Vanity Fair

When I was 9, Lara Flynn Boyle was my father’s sweetheart, and my best friend.