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That’s sad. I started following Lindsay on Twitter recently after she posted this photo:
I follow hardly any celebrities anymore because, well, I’m still scarred by Demi and Ashton and Diddy and John Mayer and their fairly brainless (and unrelenting) garbage (as opposed to, you know, my Pulitzer Prize winning Twitter haiku).
Frankly, I find following journalists, news organisations a few friends and mamamia regular commenters far more entertaining. There’s a story about all that here if you’re interested.
But I’m still hanging in there for a little while longer with Lindsay and her sometime girlfriend Samantha Ronson who – bizarrely – seem to talk to each other via Twitter in front of hundreds of thousands of people (interestingly, Samantha has over 600K followers, Lindsay – who Tweets under the name sevinnyne6126 – around 126K, maybe because she’s harder to find).
Anyway. What was my point? I think that Lindsay is a car crash. Again. And I’m about ready to look away. Again.
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MIa, I hope you read this. I apoligise in advance as this is a long post. In 6 months from now, I see Lohan either a) single b)with beard/s (again) c)in rehab/struggling d) a happy out lesbian.
While she does seem to be a bit dillusional about Samantha, I think it is unfair to not consider a few things. I watched Season 5 of The L Word (you may or may not have heard of it, if not you can read the wiki). In Season 5 (filmed in mid 2007) they introduced a character, Niki, whose a closeted lesbian actress. Her behaviour and mannerisms mirror Lohan's (tardiness, immaturity, fun-loving). They later confirmed in Season 6 that our assumptions were correct. They reveal that Niki lives at the Chateau Marmont where Lohan lived for a few yrs and she screamed about Paris and Britney in a tantrum in her room. (I'm sure you'll remember those pap shots of the threesome during Britney's meltdown) What makes Niki not just a closeted actress though is that she fights with her PR about it and it scares them. A few fans of the show also picked up that the writer and director who featured Niki the most in her episodes directed Lohan in 2004. (Check out the Wiki for the character: Niki Stevens on Wiki) I thought, well, isn that outing? That's wrong...(no one in the mainstream media picked up the connection, whether that's a good or bad thing I still don't know..)
But then I thought about it, and really, it seems they were just trying to tell her story and be her voice. If you take a step back, and think about how much media bandwidth Lohan's 'love life' got between 2005 and 2008. I'd say about 50% of it. When you look closely though, all we really got were lists of guys she was 'romantically linked' to or in PR set-up shots with. Having read a bit about PR out of interest, it's really not that hard a move for a publicist to make. Did we ever see her eyes glowing from being in love with any of those supposed boyfriends? Or the look of absolute adoration that was so often in her eyes in mid 2008 when she was with Sam? No. If Niki's story on the L Word is close to real life maybe she fought with them hard a few yrs ago, so they overreacted and resorted to the PR safest option for keeping gay rumours away looonnnggg term from their client - hyperheterosexualization/super-promiscous image. Works especially well on women as the slut tag is very hard to get rid of in people's minds. When a gay male actor comes out who used beards, his beards are then forgotten and we take it as simply a fact and move on. With Lindsay? Everyone (whether in the media or not - its fascinating how threatening the concept of a gay feminine actress is to people, even women - 'She's not gay'...'How can you be so sure?...'Because...') seems to almost, in a way, cling to that promiscuous image (I hope that makes sense). What would I do? I mean, I have no idea. How do you explain, well, it was fake, it was PR shots? In a magazine interview? A sit down interview with Bab Walters? The guys don't have to, we all erase it from our minds. But Lindsay will have to, at some point. And if she does, I think that could be the be all and end all for her career as it will remind people that yes in the 21st century there is still bearding and lavender marriages in Hollwood, something I'm sure Hollywood doesn't want people to be reminded of. I just hope it won't be someone else having to do it for her in the near future..It really is a strange situation that's she's in that no one has been in before so there's no blue print. As a budding public relations/journalism student,it has really been quite fascinating to watch.
Anna - I've also noticed that LIndsay often Tweets to Samantha but Samantha never replies. I think maybe Lindsay is in an imaginary relationship.....