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You know that I don’t discuss celebrities unless there’s a strong Industry news component. And, except for one posting, this has been a Lindsay Lohan-free zone. Well, sources just told me that Lohan has been un-attached from the independent feature The Manson Girls, written and to be directed by Matthew Bright, and produced by Elie Samaha, Donald Kushner, and Brad Wyman through Junction Films. Production was slated to commence in early July for five weeks in Los Angeles, and everybody was pleased that Lohan was attached back in March. (Some may, or may not, view this true life crime film for her as hitting bottom. Lindsay was to play the part of Nancy Pitman, a pampered surfer girl who became enthralled with Charlie Manson.) But people associated with the movie told agents that Lohan quickly became more of a deficit than an asset when they discovered that they couldn’t find any name actresses who wanted to co-star with her. (And even some name actors…) So now Lindsay is off the pic — but not for the excuses being circulated. Let this be a lesson… Behaving badly may get you on the covers of celebrity-obsessed mags and tabloids. But Hollywood won’t tolerate your shit and shouldn’t.
Proof Lindsay Lohan’s Act Has Worn Thin
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Tim – i agree with you. Really she should take a career break…but she probably won’t; she loves the limelight too much. As for her career…she has the potential to bounce back…all she needs is focus and discipline.
If the likes of RDJ, Drew Barrymore, Charlie Sheen etc can bounce back from booze and drugs…so can Lohan.
The idiots who are drawing comparisons between a hack like Lohan and Robert Downey Jr. need to examine the actual talent involved and bodies of work (both of which are negligible in Lohan’s case) before opening their pie holes.
That’s enough spoon-feeding for this morning.
“A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.” — Cecil B. DeMille in Brackett & Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard”
Right on! Couldn’t have quoted a movie about Hollywood better. Wish I had wrote that comment!
I think all her “great talent” is a myth that just gets repeated over and over again with no real grounding in reality. She was good in Mean Girls and what else….? Herbie the Love Bug? She had promise and presence, that’s it.
Now she’s way more interested in fame and partying and she clearly has no solid, healthy foundation to fall back on (see her mother and father). I am highly skeptical that she’ll be back one day. Maybe a John Travolta type resurgence in her 40s?
I don’t think that anyone cares that she has a drug problem drugs.. care that her last couple of movies she has been in have flops. They don’t want to work with her because no one cares about her anymore and that = no one going to see the movie.
She has no credibility- the only two semi-good movies she STARRED in were the Parent Trap and Mean Girls…so please don’t compare her to Robert Downey Jr.
Strangely, no one has touched upon the true problem for Ms. Lohan’s woes: her stupid parents. If you had Michael and Dina Lohan as parents, you’d be totally fucked up too. Dad twice sent to prison before she was twenty, Mom whoring herself and her kids out to anyone who will listen. The pair of them combined having less morals than Sammy Glick.
It’ll be a miracle if the other Lohan kids don’t suffer the same fate, regardless of whether the White Oprah can get them as famous as their big sister or not.
“Let this be a lesson… Behaving badly may get you on the covers of celebrity-obsessed mags and tabloids. But Hollywood won’t tolerate your shit and shouldn’t.”
Nonsense. If she was making hit movies nobody would give a shit. Do you have any idea of the “shit” that is put up with in this business? But she was essentially a flash in the pan of limited talent and shelf life, basically Alicia Silverstone with very bad habits (by the way, Alicia had a few too, as she was known on one set as “Alicia Getting-stoned”). Next she’ll “clean up”, do a TV series that will fail, and wither away into obscurity. Just the way it goes. Hope she’s saved a few bucks.
How many actors in the 60s and 70s were loaded – and proud of it – much of the time. Remember hipster cool? Times may have changed, but people haven’t. Swarming to judgement on this young person doesn’t seem right. South Park did an episode on a town sacrificing young girls, using Brittany as a martyr – painfully true.
Good, now someone in Hollywood is exhibiting a brain. Maybe no one wants to be on the same piece of celluloid with Lohan because she’s a no-talent loser who used up her soupçon of talent when she was a tween. She has even less class than talent, and now Hollywood is going to turn her out onto the professional equivalent of Molokai, as well they should Plenty of talented women out there, why not give them a chance to shine. The most esteemed of our actresses have publicly excoriated Lohan, and she still doesn’t get it. Damaged goods, never to be resurrected. Buh-bye! In my line of work, I meet people of all ages and socio-economic ranges. Not one person has anything good to say about Lohan — tweens hate her, young adults hate her, older adults hate her. The only positive comment, recently, in a group of 18-22-year-olds in a college entertainment studies course was “Well, she was kind of good in that old movie Parent Trap.” They can’t even recall what her films were, mostly. Spent time on someone else. Maybe she can get herself some cheesy European commercial somewhere and disappear. She can’t sing, either.
Ah, literate discourse for a change and no one typing ‘first’. I love the comments here these days. Very refreshing. To ‘Paul’ above—’ignoratti’ –I love it. ‘Furious D’ — anyone who connects Lindsay, Chatsworth and porn in a great post is my hero.
Mean Girls was good thanks to Tina Fey who wrote an amazing script, not Lohan’s great comedic timing or acting skills. The real comedy was provided by McAdams and the rest of the ensemble anyway. I seriously think that any other comparably-qualified actress could’ve pulled of Lindsey’s role in the film just as well, only without that annoying gravelly voice. Stop giving her more credit than she deserves.
I might’ve enjoyed some of her movies, and obviously the tween generation did, but that doesn’t make her some great actress. I really don’t understand where all this “Lohan is so great” is coming from. Where’s the work to show for it?
It’s not as if she had Natalie Portman’s talent and suddenly turned druggie. Another Long Island girl, might I mention, with actual talent and the acting work to show for it, and actual brains, which have fortunately led her far in the opposite direction of Ms. Lohan.
Paul, she is not acting like a normal 21 year old. I don’t know many people who were in rehab 3 times before the age of 21, and I go to a college filled with the ridiculously wealthy and privileged.
The fact remains; doing coke is not normal, getting dui’s is not normal, chasing someone in a stolen suv down the PCH is not normal.
And to compare her to Robert Downey Jr is ridiculous; Robert is talented, Lindsay is not near his level of talent, not even close. Her part in Mean Girls wasn’t exactly a difficult film role, a monkey could have pulled off the same performance.
Man, this girl just keeps getting lower and lower. She better get your act straight, or she won’t be in the entertainment industry any longer.
What “She” said!
with all those staged upskirts, she might as well do porn.
i mean, aren’t serious, serious, SERIOUS actors classy, and decent in society.
ummm….yeah
I can’t believe people are comparing her to Robert Downey Jr. Seriously, there’s no comparison.
I don’t understand why people keep saying she’s talented. Mean Girls was good because of Tina Fey, not Lindsay Lohan and i’m sorry but saying “she was good in Parent Trap” isn’t particularly convincing.
I don’t think the problem is that she has a drug problem – who in the business doesn’t? The problem is that her acting sucks and her movies make no money. Toss in the fact that she’s a nasty piece of work who no one has anything nice to say and is it really that surprising that people don’t want to work with her?
It’s a shame that Lindsay doesn’t see what she’s doing to her career. With all of the beautiful young actresses with talent and willing to work hard, her opportunities are dying off fast. But more than the obvious, Lindsay is the oldest, dried out-looking 21 year old I’ve seen outside of a crack house. Her lifestyle is showing on her face, and that is a total career killer. I recently caught a candid photo of her, and I couldn’t believe it was her. She looked like a 35 year old alcoholic! Tsk. I’ve also read that she’s run through most of the money she’s made, so she really doesn’t have much to fall back on. Double tsk. Oh, well. She apparently doesn’t want to listen to advice from anyone and it shows. As my grandmother used to tell us, “Hard heads make soft butts.” Yup.
john, you dolt. Do you know what a homonym is?? Whole and Hole are two different words, she used the proper one. And youre a ninny, if u agree with Paul. No offence.
I can’t believe there’s people actually supporting this girl, people need to realize that Lohan is not a victim of media scrutiny, she LOVES the attention, she lives for it, she’s not different than Paris Hilton, all those paparazzi photos you see are -most of them- staged and Lohan herself even calls some of the photographers, the girl is also one of the most obnoxious, stuck up and delusional-about-her-own-place-in-Hollywood actresses I’ve ever seen, just read an interview with her, she’s so arrogant it’s sickening, I know it’s bad to enjoy someone else’s misfortunes but Im glad to know her career is in the dumpster, she deserves it for being such a crap person, and Im not talking about her drug use, no, that I don’t care for, she’s a crap person for the way she treats people, she’s a crap person for thinking she’s God or princess Diana, she’s a crap person for being such a hipocrite, she’s crap because she’s extremely shallow and self-centered, she doesn’t care about anything but herself, and by the way to all those people justifying her actions with the “leave her alone she’s young, shes doing what every other young person does” excuse, Im 20 and I’ve never been in rehab, I party and use drugs with frecuence yet Im doing good in school and at work, I act like every other 20 year old in the world, sure I like to have fun but I also know what’s important and Im commited to it, Lohan doesn’t, she thinks that because she is who she is she can get away with anything. well, she is wrong.
Mean Girls was good because Tina Fey is a brilliant writer, but it benefited from Lohan’s talent. Lohan was also very good in A Prairie Home Companion. She has a great deal of talent. She just needs to shake the partying and drug abuse enough to show up and work. Maybe she’s not a great talent, but she’s good. I’d like to see her get her act together so she can produce some more good work.
But she had better hurry. The partying and drug abuse has burned away a lot of her beauty. She needs to straighten up before age makes the decline in her looks permanent, because no one will care about her talent if she shrivels into a prune before she straightens up. Talent can keep her working as she ages, but to get her talent re-recognized she needs both the talent and her once-beautiful looks.
As a (now up there) previously young woman who had a lot of similar problems, I am pretty certain that it has been the lack of a firm foundation that has her floundering around and looking for herself in all of the wrong things. There is probably a just below the surface sense of getting back and mom and dad (who don’t really give a real shit about her, except for what she can give or do for them and LL knows it) involved as well. Unfortunately, once you start out like that it’s a really long road back to anything resembling integrity. Most likely, she will never be what she could have been. But that is her journey.
I agree that Hollywood or pro sports will put up with nonsense as long as the person can make them money.
Even in the NFL, two idiots Adam “Pacman” Jones and Chris Henry, who, combined have managed to be arrested 11, thats right, 11 times since becoming professioanls. Henry has been cut by the Bengals and Jones’ future is uncertain. These people forget that there are new actors/actresses at auditions every day. Others forget that there is a NFL draft every April, and that they are replacable.
Lohan is a addict and thief and her three recent movies in which she starred all bombed. She has major on-screen and off-screen issues. She is box office poison.
Notice how Miley Cyrus has disappeared after the Vanity Fair problem. Lohan would still be out in public partying.
Other than a ripoff of Hayley Mills what has
Lohan actually done? Her extremely public
waste of youth and beauty has been done so many
times before that it’s now a Hollywood cliche.
Eerily this could just as easily be the Shauna Grant career path. TBA
Let’s face it: Lohan has anything her lil’ heart desires — guys, girls, money, fame, booze, attention. (And, lest I forget, the nicest rack in Hollywood). O.K., after a string of winners she made a lousy movie (“I Know Who Killed Me”), has been arrested and in rehab and is down to taking parts on “Ugly Betty,” but, nonetheless, the world walks in her wake. Imagine having all that at 21 or 22 or whatever she is! So leave her and Samantha Ronson alone: They provide us great street theater and, in today’s shallow world, isn’t that really what it’s all about?
I really don’t know what to believe about Lindsay. Are people talking smack about her because it’s the thing to do, or is it really true?The truth is really floating around some where.