Robert Redford’s Private Sorrow - Jamie Lee Curtis - Mark Ronson

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Checking Into the White Lotus—for Real

Anyone who loves The White Lotus has dreamed about one day staying at one of the fictional hotel chain’s properties. (Sure, checking in might mean running the risk of being murdered—but that’s just the price one has to pay.) For Lorraine Nicholson, though, that dream became a reality when her friend, executive producer David Bernad, invited her to visit the set of the show’s the third season. So Nicholson jetted off to Thailand, where she’d wind up staying for three weeks—partying with Natasha Rothwell, doing karaoke with Patrick Schwarzenegger, getting a helping hand from Walton Goggins. Her unbelievable true story is the perfect accompaniment to recent news that season four will shoot in the south of France.

Elsewhere in HWD, we look back at Robert Redford’s life in pictures, and the surprising number of personal tragedies that shadowed his incredible career; Mark Ronson gives Daniela Tijerina an exclusive tour of his home office; and Jamie Lee Curtis remembers her nascent friendship with Princess Diana.

Grand Hotel

Fleeing a breakup, and reality, in Los Angeles, Lorraine Nicholson accepted an invite to stay at the Four Seasons Koh Samui while the third season of Mike White’s HBO smash hit filmed. Not long after she arrived, life began imitating art—save for all the homicide.

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The Company He Kept

Robert Redford’s life in pictures, from his humble beginnings on the small screen to Butch Cassidy, The Way We Were, winning a best-director Oscar, and launching the Sundance Film Festival.

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Sorrow and Joy

Redford had four children—but he outlived both of his sons, Scott Anthony and James.

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Downtown Funk

Mark Ronson, newly minted author of Night People, on hunting down vinyl, learning from Mary Karr, and the wow-inducing moment he had while dating Rashida Jones.

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A Letter to Diana

On the set of the film Fierce Creatures, Jamie Lee Curtis narrowly missed a meeting with the princess, she writes in a social media post marking the 28th anniversary of Diana's death.

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