Most starlets’ fans pray that their fave actress will be nominated
for an Oscar. Lindsay Lohan’s fans just pray that she makes it through filming
a movie without going to jail or dying of a drug overdose.
Lindsay was found unconscious in her hotel room over the
weekend, with “exhaustion” cited as the main reason for paramedics rushing to
her penthouse suite.
I put “exhaustion” in quotation marks because it has a whiff
of Steven Tyler going to rehab for “sore feet”.
The former child star is in the middle of filming Liz and
Dick, alongside True Blood Aussie-but-really-Kiwi hottie Grant Bowler.
The pair chart the course of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard
Burton’s troubled relationship. Dick took Liz up the aisle twice.
Movie studio representatives have claimed “exhaustion” as
the cause of Lindsay’s incident, with her people claiming she is working
full-on days back-to-back.
Fine. Whatever. I want Lindsay to stay in paid employment so
badly, I’m glad the movie studio is singing from the same hymn book as she is.
It means they’re going to see this project out to the bitter end. And then
never hire her again, probably.
Miss Lohan became a firm favourite of mine ever since Mean
Girls. Her acting talent, when she has her shit together, is pretty good. She’s
better than most twenty-somethings out there. Meryl Streep sang her praises
when they starred together in A Prairie Home Companion. I don’t think even Anne
Hathaway got an A+ on her report card when Streep played her boss in The Devil
Wears Prada. I want Lindsay to do really, really well but even the patience of her
most die-hard fans is being tested when she can’t stay away from hard partying
for more than five minutes.
The things is this: There was no way in hell that Lindsay even
stood a chance of being a normal, well-adjusted, hard working actress. She had
no stable family life to speak of. You are well aware of what her parents are
like. Plus, she moved in to famous LA nightspot Chateau Marmont – yes, that Chateau Marmont – when she was only
16. What chance did she stand?
Hope may yet be on the horizon for our favourite ranga.
American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis wants her to star in an upcoming
project, alongside porn star James Deen. Don’t worry, it’s a legitimate film
and Bret’s work is always fantastic, so I’m really looking forward to this.
Interestingly, a lifeline was thrown Lindsay’s way a year or
so ago when she was offered the part of Linda ‘Deep Throat’ Lovelace in an
upcoming film. Surprise, surprise, she pissed away that chance too due to her
hard partying.
Please, please, please
make it through Liz and Dick without going to prison, Linds. You don’t know
how many people want you to do well.
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