Vanity Project

The Most Famous Laura


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Who is the most famous Laura? It’s not the one in Vanity Project! In our Actress Double Feature reprise all eyes are on birthday girl Laura Dern. Four-time Academy-Awarded Best Actress Katherine Hepburn once said: "Show me an actress who isn't a personality, and you'll show me a woman who isn't a star." But what of a Best Supporting Actress?

The supporting material this week is the holey epic Inland Empire (2006), the late David Lynch’s last feature, and confounding literary bio-flick JT Leroy (2018). What’s in a name? Laura and Charles attempt naming the unnameable genius of facial contortionist Laura Dern. When was the Dernaissance exactly? With Dern’s pre-historic Hollywood pedigree, she's fought worse Dinosaurs for years in Tinseltown!

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