Jennifer Connelly is about to get…carded? It is 9:00 p.m. on a Thursday night, and she is on her way into Union Hall, a cavernous, crowded bar with indoor bocce courts in her neighborhood in Brooklyn. Just inside the door is a bouncer sitting on a stool who looks like he hasn't smiled in 20 years. "Can I see some I.D.?" he says, oblivious of the fact that he is asking a 36-year-old Oscar-winning movie star to prove who she is. She reaches into her bag, fishes out a wallet, and hands over her driver's license. As he studies the picture and then looks at her face, her eyes dart self-consciously around the room in the hopes that no one, including me, is noticing this slight bit of embarrassment.

"Dark Victory" has been edited for Style.com; the complete story appears in the November 2007 issue of Vogue.

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