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Julie Miller is a senior feature writer at Vanity Fair. Simon Garfield had spent months researching a play about the life of Linda Lovelace when he heard news of her death last week.

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There, she was involved in an automobile accident, sustaining injuries that were serious enough to require her to undergo a blood transfusion. Direction: Gerard Damiano.

Even more ill-founded were the efforts to cast Linda Lovelace as a feminist pioneer; from a distance, the fantasy of a woman deriving her sharpest satisfaction from the most slavish act of man-pleasing seems more, not less, like something that only a man would dream up.