Keeping Up with Lindsay (please put all Lohan news here)

[Boomer]

Welcome back to: What the heck is wrong with Lindsay, anyway!!?

This weeks answer: You'd be messed up, too, if you were a young starlet and your mother was (much) hotter than you were!!

JustJared.com

 

[sethii]

OK no news about Lindsay, but news about why there is no news

Hollywood's bad girls clean up as public tires of 'the flippant factor'

Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears no longer command headlines. Some have left the party lifestyle but recession-hit Americans have their own problems to face – and now disapprove of the celebrity antics they loved


It is a phenomenon that once seemed unimaginable but Paris Hilton, socialite heiress and symbol of a tarnished age of cheap fame, no longer hits the headlines.
Hilton, whose waif-like blonde form first came to global attention via a sordid sex tape and then morphed into a vast commercial empire, is now a much rarer fixture on the gossip circuit. She is even living with a steady boyfriend in Los Angeles. Her one-time partner in hard-partying crime, Nicole Richie, is now a mother with two children.
Nor is Hilton alone in fading from view. Two years ago, singer Britney Spears was engaged in a public meltdown, tailed by a pack of paparazzi that had many speculating she would not survive the attention. At the same time, actress Lindsay Lohan was famed for her partying, not her screen talents.
American film and television seemed to be engaged in an orgy of bad behaviour that spurred a flood of media hand-wringing over the state of America's most powerful cultural export: its celebrities. But now Spears is back on tour and apparently healthy. Lohan is going sober.
The most popular and acclaimed new celebrities in America are figures such as country star Taylor Swift, a quiet-living 19-year-old. The most talked about hit movie in America, the latest in the Twilight series – New Moon – makes a sub-text virtue of its characters not having sex. Even the market price for paparazzi shots of celebrities has slumped by a third.
Snarky gossip website Gawker summed up the surprise situation best when a headline on a recent post lamented: "You'll miss Paris Hilton now that she's gone." That is going way too far for most people. But in a world wearied by scandals of the rich and famous, it is the shocking move no one saw coming: America's celebrities are behaving just fine.
Perhaps no one exemplifies the change better than Spears. In 2007, the pop princess's career was hurtling towards a crash of epic proportions. She was a constant feature of the party circuit in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York. She was famed for being photographed wearing no underwear. As her career stalled, she was trailed by a huge pack of paparazzi even as she seemed to be going into meltdown. She even publicly shaved her head and then started dating one of the photographers tailing her. Eventually she was carried away from her home strapped to a stretcher and admitted to hospital.
That was then. Spears is now healthy and on a concert tour, albeit subject to a tight regime. Only two years ago many pundits were forecasting her early death. Now Spears is back on top.
But others, too, seem to have put their bad behaviour behind them. Hilton – once a fixture on the reality TV circuit – is now slipping off-screen. She is in a stable relationship, and her most recent bout of publicity resulted from releasing a new shampoo line. Lohan, too, has adopted a more sedate profile. She faced jail time in 2007, but has since reportedly started therapy and stopped drinking. Now most headlines that Lohan generates come from her own tweeting on Twitter, rather than partying until the wee hours.
Cultural experts believe that the trend could be linked to the global economic crisis that has gripped the world for more than a year. With millions of Americans unemployed and losing their homes, celebrity shenanigans have given way to more weighty and meaningful concerns.
"The economy has sucked all the oxygen out of the room when it comes to other things. The 'flippant factor' of that sort of behaviour by celebrities has made it appear much more unacceptable," said Dann Pierce, professor of popular culture at the University of Portland.
Blatant excess is no longer acceptable: although many finance houses and investment banks are again awarding huge bonuses to staff, this is in the face of public discontent that would have been unthinkable two years ago. Goldman Sachs, a focal point for such disquiet, has decided not to hold a Christmas party this year and has banned staff from funding their own celebrations.
Now it seems that public disapproval over the behaviour of the wealthy has spilled over into the world of the famous.
Celebrity interviewer Gayl Murphy also believes that ordinary Americans no longer derive Schadenfreude from the antics of stars owing to the very real problems in their own lives. "People used to like seeing celebrities melt down because it made them feel that their own more stable – but ordinary – lives were better. But now people are losing their homes and their jobs. They have their own meltdowns to deal with," Murphy said.
Indeed the most high-profile celebrity scandals of the past year have not involved A-list stars or household names. The sort of media attention in America once lavished on Spears, Lohan and Hilton has instead focused on "Octomom" Nadya Suleman and Jon and Kate Gosselin, a soon-to-be divorced couple who had a reality TV show. Though such people are hardly ordinary in the usual sense of the word, they are not actresses or rich or singers.
A similar cultural backlash was widely expected after 9/11. At that time, the concept of the "death of irony" and an end to frivolity was much discussed in the wake of the tragedy and the emergence of a seemingly scary new world of threat to the American heartland. "We have seen this sort of thing before in pop culture's response to very serious world events," said Pierce.
But it is not just a case of celebrities suddenly deciding to act more soberly. It is also because, as media organisations see a growing disquiet over reports of hard-partying stars, they run fewer stories about them.
Hilton, who appears to be living so quietly, has in fact been annoying her neighbours with loud partying. The police have received numerous complaints and the local council has been dragged into the affair. However, although a handful of gossip websites carried the story, no serious outlets have bothered with it. "At the moment, Britney could walk down the street naked with a chimpanzee and we would not hear that much about it," said Murphy.
Indeed the paparazzi economy – sometimes referred to as the celebrity-industrial complex – has taken a huge battering. A survey by the Daily Beast website revealed that celeb paparazzi photos were now selling for 31% less than in 2007. "The celebrity media bubble has burst," said Beast writer Nicole LaPorte. That has been coupled with the signing in California last month of an anti-paparazzi law that will punish photographers who invade a star's privacy. The law was aimed in part at reducing the chaotic scenes seen around Los Angeles as photographers chase stars in their cars.
Its passing certainly reflected a popular backlash against those trappings of the Hollywood lifestyle that were starting to affect ordinary people's everyday lives in the city.
But trends come in cycles. The wave of seriousness in America after 9/11 eventually disappeared, and gave way to an era of wild partying by young stars, culminating in Britney shaving her head and other celebrities facing going to jail.
Now a new frugality appears to have come into play. Yet this, too, will pass and – as Spears, Hilton or Richie look on, older and possibly wiser – a new generation of hard-partying young stars will emerge.
"Give it a year and a half and, if the economy is no longer staring into the abyss, we will see a return to frivolity and a return to an interest in it," said Pierce. If the good times roll again, so will the celebrities.

guardian

 

[Boomer]

^ Really? Lindsay stopped drinking and is in therapy?? OK...news to me...

 

[Echoes]

Indeed the paparazzi economy – sometimes referred to as the celebrity-industrial complex – has taken a huge battering.

Who said there wasn't any good news?

 

[sethii]

^ Really? Lindsay stopped drinking and is in therapy?? OK...news to me...

Yes, she's being healthy...

Not in BM coz I'm busy having a civilized life..sleeping, waking up early to jog w/ my brother, eating a standard breakfast &feeling healthy
about 19 hours ago from UberTwitter

...but

RT @paufdenkamp @_MURPH__: @lindsaylohan whenever yor near south jersey bring some of that patrick kryptonite my way
about 19 hours ago from UberTwitter

twitter/lindsaylohan

 

[Boomer]

^ She's in South Jersey?? Oh boy, let me call security....

 

[Boomer]

How could she be out at such a big time club and there be no pictures??


December 02, 2009, (Splash News) - Lindsay Lohan was sighted out in New York City with John Mayer, E! News reports.
Mayer has just been Down Under and talked at length of the lack of love in his life while Lohan has been ensnared in personal dramas to rival anything Hollywood could invent.
Lohan and Mayer reportedly checked out the nightspot Butter, where they danced and shared a table. Mayer drank Belvedere vodka while Lohan stayed off the hard stuff.
Sources told E! News that Lohan sent some unreciprocated affectionate glances Mayer's way. "She would follow his every move. He would dance with the waitresses and then come back. She was way into it," they said.
She later took to Twitter to say:"shhhhhhhhhhhhhh butter-face ." Mayer's representative had no comment to make on the story.

 

[sethii]

^ there was a story about a DJ who took her photo in a club. Her security guy then grabbed the DJ's camera and deleted all the photos. I don't know what the big deal is about someone taking her photo while she's listening to music/ meeting with studio execs in a club

I wonder why John didn't reply to her....or Lady Gaga for that matter. Lindsay's always tweeting to Gaga but never gets a response.

 

[Boomer]

^ I guess it's so people like us will say 'Oh look- she stayed home and is getting herself together!!' BTW- I worked in lots of clubs- who the Hell lets security take their camera and delete pictures!!? This is pretty over the top, isn't it?? Why weren't the paps all over her outside? This makes no sense...

 

[Boomer]

OMG- here we go again...

Caught in the Act!
Wednesday December 02, 2009 -Lindsay Lohan and John Mayer were both hanging out with Samantha Ronson, who was deejaying at New York nightspot Butter. Mayer arrived first with his male posse in tow, and the singer scoped out the scene and stopped to flirt with female revelers. He also greeted Ronson at his table, though she soon headed over to the deejay booth. Then Lohan arrived and started chatting up Mayer. While Lohan was definitely there to see Ronson, according to an onlooker the two didn't really interact much, though there were at the same table all night. "You could tell they were there together and both talking to John Mayer," the onlooker says. "They all stayed at the same time talking until past 3 a.m."

People.com

 

[sethii]

What happened to the charity trip to save Latin American children?
...and The Other Side?

 

[Boomer]

^ Sorry, she's obviously way too busy creating her next fashion show triumph!! The next ready to wear shows in Paris are in, what, 11 weeks? You'd think she would at least swing by there to get involved... (Or wear some of their clothes maybe...)

 

[turnofflights]

butter sucks

 

[Boomer]

^ I've never had the pleasure- doesn't sound like my kind of place...But I think Lindsay has been there a lot of times...?

 

[lucy92]

i enjoyed reading about michael lohans press appearance following his TLC/kate + 8 deposition.

i think i'd rather be stuck in an elevator with him over dina or lindsay. he's at least amusing.

 

[Boomer]

^ I'll take Dina in the elevator, but that's something totally different... B)

 

[sethii]

The next ready to wear shows in Paris are in, what, 11 weeks? You'd think she would at least swing by there to get involved... (Or wear some of their clothes maybe...)

Ungaro FW2010 will be shown in New York. No reason for her to be in Paris but I'm sure she'll find one!

 

[Boomer]

^ But her office!! She has her own office in Paris, remember!!? And, if you were designing a collection, wouldn't you need to be where the designing is done, regardless of where the show is??

 

[Nemova]

From Lainey Gossip:

Lilo crosses the Alba B*tch

Oh there will be hell to pay. Us Weekly reports that Lindsay Lohan hit up a club last week with Cash Warren and according to witnesses, within half an hour, the two were mashing mouths: "It was raw. They were not shy."

Lilo has denied the claims, insisting that she would never move on another woman’s man:

"This is so absurd. He is married. I wouldn't dare kiss him."

She instead insists that they’re friends and that they’re working on a “potential TV show”.

Right. She’s always working on something with someone. In reality she’s working on nothing with no one. Work? What work? There is no work. There is only cr*ck tweeting. And lies and desperation. Although to her credit, since her father started releasing those tapes, she has maintained a much lower profile, trying to ride out the latest scandal undercover.

But you can’t lock a famewh*re away forever. Two weeks and she’s itching to get back out there. And macking on married men.

This is Lindsay last night after inviting the paps along for an AA meeting and then shopping at Maxfield. You’ll note, without makeup and that tanner sh-t smeared all over her, she actually doesn’t look so bad. Still dried out as f-ck but younger and sweeter… until the Alba b*tch knocks her out.

Jessica Alba was running errands yesterday and taking meetings, still fighting Jessica Biel for the same roles, and heading home to lay down the law with Cash. He’s a father, he’s a husband, and his wife is trying to reinvent herself as a parent humanitarian. Even if nothing went down, Lilo by association is the worst. That sh-t needs to be cut off. Also, Cash is the worst name ever. For all you judgy b*tches who love to rag on Bronx and Zuma and the rest, Cash, which barely raises a MiniVan eyebrow, is the most hillbilly, dumb*ss, hicktown name and it offends me more than 10 Sparrows combined.

http://www.laineygossip.com/Lindsay...bas_husband_Cash_Warren.aspx?CatID=0&CelID=99

Indeed, she looks much better without all the makeup - instead of aged, she just looks tired.

 

[Caroliiine]

^ But her office!! She has her own office in Paris, remember!!? And, if you were designing a collection, wouldn't you need to be where the designing is done, regardless of where the show is??

She's not the designer.

She is just an artistic adviser. Which is basically offering input on whether she likes whatever was designed + bringing publicity to the brand. The CEO said he wants to bring the target demographic of Ungaro down (from age 60) to around Lindsay's age, and for that he needs someone who actually is 20-something and interested in fashion.

And for that, someone can just take pics and email them to Lindsay.

As for the Warren/Alba story, it was originally reported in Us Weekly but Lindsay already denied it to Gossip Cop.