I’ve always had a certain fondness for Lara Flynn Boyle, partly because she played a series of dark, quirky characters, and partly because she has so many of the qualities I look for in a woman—i.e., she’s rail-slender, batshit insane, and has lousy taste in men. But the Lara Flynn Boyle of my fantasies seems to have been replaced by something much lumpier and considerably less attractive. First, there were questions about her recent guest appearance on Law & Order, when more than a few viewers thought she was virtually unrecognizable. Then on Sunday she showed up at Mr. Chow’s in Beverly Hills, looking like someone had worked her over with a sack of doorknobs moments before she walked through the door. That, or she’s getting collagen injections from Dr. Nick Riviera.

According to that Daily Mail link, several years ago Lara said, “On a vanity level, I am not looking forward to ageing at all—I think I look pretty good now.” Not many of us look forward to getting old, but it’s more or less inevitable and there are various different ways of coming to terms with it. Right now, Lara’s not using one of the good ways.