Contents

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12 Editor's Letter

14 Contributors

92 Proust Questionnaire

Vanities

18 Odessa Young

The Springsteen superfan on graduating from indie darling to studio star.

22 / This or That

Protein was only the beginning. Are you high bro or low bro?

23 / Grind Mode

A high-fashion take on skater style.

24 / My Studio

Step inside Mark Ronson's West Village home office.

26 / Food

Flynn McGarry brings the ethos—and herbs—of Isabella Rossellini's farm to his new fine-dining venture, Cove.

Columns

28 Chaos Theory

Mitchell Jackson, PR guru to the canceled and chaotic, lives for mess.

By Natalie Korach Photograph by Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet

Features

30 Sibling Revelry

What's the secret to lasting success and smooth sailing in choppy Hollywood waters? For Dakota and Elle Fanning, it's an unwavering family bond.

By Savannah Walsh Photographs by Inez and Vinoodh

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Features

42 The Greatest Showman

Since taking Broadway by storm, Jeremy O. Harris has been a social perpetualmotion machine. He's still defying the laws of physics.

By Chris Murphy Photograph by Tyler Mitchell

54 The Team's Gambit

Chess is one of the most notorious musicals in Broadway history. A new production hopes to put it in check.

By Chris Murphy Photograph by Mark Seliger

"I just want her to have everything that she wants."

— DAKOTA FANNING [P. 30]

70 Exiles in Paris

For journalists, activists, and other undesirables cast out from their countries, one Paris bar is a nightly refuge. Everybody comes to The Dissident Club.

By Liam Scott Photographs by Louis Canadas

48 The Price of Infamy

Decades after a shocking— and tabloid tailor-madecrime upended her childhood and ripped apart her family, Jessica Buttafuoco is confronting the past.

By Michelle Ruiz

58 Buddy Comedy

As a writer, director, and producer, Judd Apatow has been a seemingly omnipotent force in comedy. He's got the pictures to prove it.

By Lena Dunham

66 Bruce Almighty

Nothing could have prepared Emma Heming Willis for the fate that has befallen her husband, Bruce Willis, and their blended family.

By Anna Peele Photographs by Norman Jean Roy

74 The Florida Divorcée's Guide to Murder

In 1983, an anonymous mother wrote a hit man how-to. Then her own story grew even stranger.

By Abbott Kahler