Keeping Up With Lindsay #2 (please put all Lohan news here)

[Boomer]

why be a public p*rn star when she could be a high end escort? she still would get lots of money and could maintain the fantasy that she´s a HW actress...

Great idea- we should send her a copy of "Casino" and she can study Sharon Stone's character- high end Vegas call girl...it is a brilliant idea!! B)

 

[Echoes]

Traci went the other way, XXX to mainstream and her fame really came from the age scandal more than anything else. She was never a good mainstream actress.


Teri really wasn't much of an actress either, doing mainly bitbarts and guest appearances. I don't know if she ever did a feature film or not. One she switched to XXX, her fame skyrocketed. The she went to work at one of the Nevada ranched getting thousands per 'visit'.

I kinda see LiLo following that track if she doesn't clean her act up.

 

[Boomer]

^ Yeah, when we see Linds wheeling up to the Mirage in a Rolls Convertible, we'll know what's up...especially if Ali is with her!!

 

[sethii]

She's did a shoot for US Vogue today.

No, just kidding, it was for Maxim.

 

[isa.b.elle.]

so this could explain our doubts about how she could pay all those shopping-trip if everyone claims she's broken....:innoncent:

Lindsay Lohan concocted a diabolical, fraudulent plan to defraud an L.A. boutique out of thousands of dollars … according to a lawsuit that will be filed today.

TMZ has obtained a copy of the suit, in which Church — a boutique that sells expensive clothes, jewelry, and accessories — claims Lindsay shopped at the store between November, 2009 and February, 2010.

According to the suit, Lindsay racked up a bill of $17,060.83 and convinced the owners her business manager would pay the bill. But much to the chagrin of the owners, Lindsay’s business manager paid a grand total of $180.

The suit, which will be filed in L.A. County Superior Court, alleges Lindsay “had no intention of causing her business manager to pay the entire balance.”

And there’s this — the suit claims the boutique owners relied on Lindsay’s “well known status as a movie actress with substantial income.” Wrong on both counts.

The owners say Lindsay committed premeditated fraud and are seeking the balance — $16,880.63 — plus interest and punitive damages.

Yes, we see the 20 cent differential — but that’s the way it appears in the lawsuit. Apparently, the shop is giving LiLo a credit.

No comment from Lindsay’s camp.

source:tmz.com

 

[Boomer]

^ Well, any store manager who has access to TMZ and Access Hollywood should be ashamed of themselves if they let her run up thousands of dollars of unpaid bills...Really, what would you expect when half of Los Angeles is suing her for unpaid bills?? You know the old saying : In God we trust- all others pay cash!!

 

[Lonewalker]

I keep coming back to this thread and it makes me sad to see her perennial decline and come in hope everyday to see her publicists announcement that she's going to rehab.

 

[sethii]

LA Times

Lindsay Lohan's once bright future takes a detour into troubled waters

The young actress' d*** issues, ****** disorder and failed stints in rehab, along with dubious public episodes, have studios balking at backing her films.

By Amy Kaufman Los Angeles Times July 4, 2010

Lindsay Lohan had just been fired again, and she wasn't taking the news well.

"She was really hurt about it, and I felt terrible," said David Michaels, who was set to direct her in a movie called "The Other Side."

Michaels made the call to his 23-year-old would-be leading lady earlier this spring after investors in the film balked at Lohan's most recent tabloid misadventures.

"The budget on the film had been increased from $15 [million] to $20 million, and when the producers were going out for that kind of money, they were finding financiers and distributors asking, 'Is she really going to draw people to a theater? Is the money going to be covered?'" Michaels said in a recent telephone interview. "It certainly had to do with the six- to eight-month period after we signed her, that her image did not get any better....

"Everyone seems to be all about finding what's wrong with her, and no one seemingly is really reaching out to her and offering her a path to reclaiming what she once had."

What she once had, of course, was promise. A decade ago, Lohan was considered one of the most talented young actresses of her generation. Her performances in teen comedies such as "The Parent Trap" and "Freaky Friday" earned her comparisons to the likes of Jodie Foster. "Her talent was undeniable," said Mark Waters, who directed Lohan in 2003's "Freaky Friday" and 2004's "Mean Girls." "I would set out the most difficult obstacle course for her for a scene, and she'd nail it like a floor routine. She was that good."

Since her feature film debut at 11, however, Lohan has increasingly been recognized not for her movie performances but for behavior ranging from drug abuse and eating disorders to failed stints in rehab and, most recently, possible probation violations in relation to a 2007 DUI charge.

Her conduct has pummeled her reputation and her career. Those who finance and make movies, wary of her physical and mental health and skeptical of her ability to show up to work on time, if at all, appear increasingly hesitant to risk their money on such a repeat offender. And although readers may devour tales of her off-screen escapades on celebrity websites and in tabloid magazines, they seem less willing these days to drop $10 for a ticket to one of her movies.

Lohan has not appeared on the big screen since 2007, when her thriller "I Know Who Killed Me," in which she had a dual role as a stripper and a torture victim, flopped. Her 2009 comedy "Labor Pains" failed to get a domestic movie distributor and debuted on the cable channel ABC Family. She has a small part in the upcoming "Machete," and after being fired from "The Other Side," she was cast as the late p*rn star Linda Lovelace in a biopic called "Inferno," which has not begun filming.

And yet, there's nothing Hollywood loves more than a good comeback story. Lohan has the sympathy of filmmakers and business partners (like those she works with on her fashion line, 6126) who say she'd readily be accepted back into the film world, much like former substance abusers Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke, if she could somehow defeat her demons.

But that would require a sense of purpose and discipline that, if a recent jaunt to the Cannes Film Festival is any indication, may still be absent.

When she flew to Cannes in May, she was supposed to be promoting "Inferno," and, according to director Matthew Wilder, Lohan did have meetings with foreign sales executives and others "who, after having met her, put up money" for the film.

Yet the images that emerged from France were more suited to TMZ than the trade papers. One night, there she was stumbling off a yacht; on another, she posed for a photo next to what looked like a mirror plate covered with white powder.

Back in the States, a Beverly Hills judge reprimanded her for going to Cannes and missing a probation hearing related to an August 2007 case, when she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drug charges and no contest to three driving charges. (Lohan claimed her passport was stolen and said she was unable to get back in time for the court date). As a result, she was forced to post $100,000 in bail and wear a clumsy ankle bracelet that monitors her alcohol consumption.

Only a couple of weeks later, during a party after the MTV Movie Awards, her bracelet was set off. She's due back in court on Tuesday, when she may face up to a year in jail if she is found guilty of violating her probation.

As her bail bondsman was delivering an additional $100,000 to the court in early June as a result of the ankle bracelet violation, Lohan took to her Twitter account to deny she'd consumed alcohol.

"This is all because of a FALSE accusation by tabloids& paparazzi& it is [expletive] digusting. [sic] I've been more than I'm compliance &feeling great"

Through her manager, Lohan declined numerous requests to be interviewed for this story, and publicly purports to be — at least via Twitter — healthy and happy.

"i'm doing and feeling great, filming right now and so happy… I really feel lucky " she wrote on the social networking site last month .


In a series of interviews with The Times, many who have worked with Lohan say they saw warning signs even during her early teenage years.

Nina Jacobson, who headed Disney at the time of the "Freaky Friday" release, said the studio immediately saw star potential in the then-teenager. "She definitely felt like a star, and she really carried the movie with Jamie Lee [Curtis]," she said. "I think coming out of it, we were absolutely of a mind to do more with her."

Still, Jacobson wanted to make sure Lohan was ready to handle the scrutiny that came with being a Disney poster child.


"I said, 'Are you sure you're prepared to be under the Disney spotlight?'" Jacobson recalled. "And she said she was fine with it. But most people wouldn't be — it's just an age when you sow your wild oats. he said she felt confident she could do it and was more than ready to live up to those pressures."

Only a short time after that discussion, when she began shooting 2004's "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen," there were "rumbles of what was to come," said the film's director, Sara Sugarman.

"Lindsay was commanding a lot of money and designer clothes, and people were throwing things at her in the formative years," Sugarman said. "It's bad enough that you're recognized and you don't know why people are giving you so much attention — let alone throw money and power into that equation. If you don't have your foundation, I think it's just hard for people."

But what really troubled Lohan, Sugarman believes, were her deep-seated insecurities. She didn't like that she had red hair or freckles, two trademarks of her endearing image.

"She didn't see herself as a pretty girl. She'd criticize herself. She wouldn't leave herself alone," the director said.

Many attribute those self-esteem issues to Lohan's family life, which was, at that point, unraveling. Her father, Michael Lohan, an ex-Wall Street trader, had been sent to jail for offenses related to driving under the influence of alcohol. And mother Dina Lohan lived in Long Island, New York, with her three other children while Lindsay resided on the West Coast during her teenage years.

It was a time when Lohan was painfully lonely, said Greg Wells, a music producer who worked with her on her second album, 2005's "A Little More Personal (Raw)," on which she penned an angry song to her father called "Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)" about how much his absence in her life had hurt her.

"My studio is on Robertson Boulevard, so she'd show up at the studio and have all these paparazzi chasing her," he said, which at one point resulted in a car accident. "She was 19 years old, her dad was in jail, her mom was on the East Coast, and there was a stalker in the hotel where she lived. I remember her crying on the phone with her mom, saying, 'I am here all alone, I was just in a terrible car accident.' My heart really broke."

In 2007, the bad behavior ramped up. Lohan was arrested twice on suspicion of DUI, checked into rehab twice, and spent 84 minutes in jail. She also took a huge blow professionally during production of " Georgia Rule," when a letter from producer James Robinson castigating her for her "heavy partying" and acting like a "spoiled child" was leaked to the media.

"I remember the day she didn't come in to work and said she was sick, we had a photograph of her the night before out at 3 in the morning," Robinson, the chief executive of Morgan Creek Productions, recalled.

Director Garry Marshall called the executive to say he had already shot as much footage as he could without Lohan, and the production was quickly losing money.

"He was just like, 'Jim, I don't know what to do. I've hit a wall,'" Robinson said. "The other actresses — Felicity Huffman, Jane Fonda — all tried to Mother Hen her. They did everything they knew how to help that girl get her act together, and she just didn't listen."

Months later, in an interview with a magazine, Lohan admitted she was a "bit irresponsible" on set.

In the years that followed, the tabloid-chronicled spiral continued. Today, even some of L.A.'s nightlife moguls, who once welcomed the cachet — and publicity — Lohan could bring to their club, are fearful of her erratic behavior.

"Lindsay Lohan had many crazy nights at Trousdale," said Brent Bolthouse, who owns that nightlife establishment. "I've been friends with her for a long, long, long time. I hate to see her behaving poorly. I would never go to someone's house and behave that way."

Some film industry executives suggest Lohan may be difficult to insure or inordinately expensive to cover on future productions (producers typically take out insurance to protect their investments in case key cast members cannot complete a film), but "Inferno" director Wilder said he isn't concerned.

"I think this is a project that's really important to her, and she'd dedicated to it," he said. "There's such a crazy machine built up around her now, and there's so much noise around her in the press that people forget she's a really great actor."

Lohan does seem to have a solid team managing her career. Though she has jumped around to various agencies, including Creative Artists Agency and Endeavor in recent years, she is currently represented by Nick Styne at CAA and is managed by Untitled Entertainment. During the last few months she has had no official publicist, though she is still in contact with her longtime press agent, Leslie Sloane, co-president of Baker Winokur Ryder PR.

Meanwhile, Lohan has also been busy pursuing her fashion career. Her leggings brand, 6126, will expand into a full clothing line with 280 pieces being released this month. The collection will hit the racks after a highly publicized gig for Lohan as the artistic advisor at Ungaro last fall failed when Women's Wear Daily labeled her line, which featured glittering, heart-shaped nipple pasties, "cheesy and dated."

"[W]e've not had a problem with our retailers questioning any sort of negative press," said Kristi Kaylor, president of 6126, which is named for Marilyn Monroe's birth date. "It's really frustrating for me, because I do see such a different side of her. She just recently flew to New York and met with our Bloomingdale's and Saks [Fifth Avenue] buyers to sit down and let them know how serious she was. Anything she does, she wants it to be 150%."

Another potential upcoming film vehicle could be "The Dry Gulch Kid," an adventure comedythat would co-star Willie Nelson and be produced by his company. Kerry Wallum, a producer on the movie, said he had become interested in casting the actress after hearing about her work on the Robert Rodriguez-produced "Machete," out in September.

"I think Willie has seen it all. Everybody makes mistakes, and some people make them over and over. She's a good actress," Wallum said, adding that Lohan is not yet officially attached to the film. "Maybe this is the deal that will straighten her up completely. And even if it ain't, we'll be out in the country. I guarantee she'll be to set on time. She'll be stuck out in the middle of nowhere."

latimes.com

 

[Lonewalker]

All in all it was a pretty positive article considering everything.

 

[farou7a]

why be a public p*rn star when she could be a high end escort? she still would get lots of money and could maintain the fantasy that she´s a HW actress...

I can actually see this happening. Except 'high end' is too far-fetched for her now..

 

[FASHIONLOVA]

pff people are acting like she s the only one in hollywood who goes out and drinks. well at least she s not like nicole richie who was driving on the opposite lane when ***please see tFS community rules***. she s also never had a jail sentence like nicole, paris and tons of other celebs.
get over it, she s just having fun. like everybody else whishes they could.

 

[sethii]

^ She has had a jail sentence for hijacking a car and trying to run someone off the road while under certain influences. And she does not 'go out and drink' like everyone else - she is an alcoholic. I don't know anybody who thinks doing what she does is fun. Suicide attempts? Alcoholism? Violence? Thieving? Come on, her life is a black hole of drama.

Just look at today's tweet from her

A waitress just hit me - punched me for no reason
about 3 hours ago via UberTwitter

twitter.com/lindsaylohan

 

[Boomer]

^ Yeah- she's just a fun loving, crazy kid having a good time and lovin' life!! We'll see on Tuesday how much fun she is having....

 

[Boomer]

Yo yo yo!! What the f*** Michael!! You're right down the Expressway from me and ya don't even call to come over!!? Dollar drafts and everything!! Wrestling is my life, man! Jeeze- you dissin' me or what!!? Forgetaboutit!!

Michael Lohan and Kate Major attend the Big Bang Wrestling press conference at South Philly Bar and Grill on July 1, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

GettyImages.com

 

[farou7a]

Just look at today's tweet from her

twitter.com/lindsaylohan

oh obvz! the waitress just saw her and decided it was 'punch someone in the face day today!'



what crap!

 

[FASHIONLOVA]

well there s a lot of people who hate her as if she did something to them, just look at this thread.
so am not surprised that some stupid low life wanted to get her 5 mns of fame and be violent towards lindsay.

 

[Boomer]

I'm getting so tired of these waitresses who punch Lindsay in the face for no reason just because of all of the Lohan Haters out there!!

 

[farou7a]

im pretty sure it wasnt a 5 mins for fame thing. she was prob provoked.

LiLo is almost out of her mind! People on this thread are purely DISGUSTED b/c they were once fans of this girl (myself being one of them) who has now become a public JOKE.

 

[Boomer]

Lindsay has a problem in the finest tradition of High School girls all across America- I can almost hear Leslie Gore singing "It's my party and I'll cry if I want to" in the background; here are the horrible details!! (Please ask the children to leave the room...)

Lindsay Lohan Punched by Waitress on 24th Birthday

A not so happy birthday....

Lindsay Lohan was punched by a waitress at L.A. club Voyeur early Friday morning -- her 24th birthday."A waitress just hit me - punched me for no reason," the actress Twittered around 1 a.m. PT.

A witness tells UsMagazine.com that Lohan -- who sipped Red Bulls and hid her SCRAM bracelet with thigh-high boots -- wasn't exaggerating."The waitress has a history with Doug Reinhardt, and Lohan was hanging out with him. She was jealous, and out of nowhere, the waitress punched her in the face!" the insider tells Us. "Doug didn't want any part of it and went to the other side of the booth. Lohan ran out."The night didn't get better from there.

Lohan went to a party at the nearby Rockstar House -- and ran into the waitress again!

"Lohan showed up and cried because the waitress was there as well," says another source. "Some birthday."

UsWeekly.com

 

[myown]

^ She has had a jail sentence for hijacking a car and trying to run someone off the road while under certain influences. And she does not 'go out and drink' like everyone else - she is an alcoholic. I don't know anybody who thinks doing what she does is fun. Suicide attempts? Alcoholism? Violence? Thieving? Come on, her life is a black hole of drama.

but I dont think that jail is the right thing for her. it wouldnt help her at all. everything she needs are people that care about her and a good longtime therapy.

im pretty sure it wasnt a 5 mins for fame thing. she was prob provoked.

LiLo is almost out of her mind! People on this thread are purely DISGUSTED b/c they were once fans of this girl (myself being one of them) who has now become a public JOKE.

please speak for yourself, because I disagree. she is NO puplic joke!