When More Is More

After a freak accident leaves her temporarily lashless, Holly Millea wages a one-woman campaign for regrowth and renewal. Naturally, we’re all aflutter.

When screen legend Bette Davis was asked by the Tonight Show host Johnny Carson the best way an aspiring actress could get into Hollywood, she replied simply, “Take Fountain”—referring to the avenue that runs parallel to Sunset and Santa Monica Boulevards. Bette was right. It’s still faster. I know, because not long ago, I was speeding along Fountain in the back of a cab, late for an interview, applying mascara and curling my lashes, when, in the midst of my squeeze, squeeze, squeezing, the brakes were slammed: My body jerked forward and back, and I was left staring in shock at the Shiseido curler in my hand, where my eyelashes were gripped, ripped from my lid.