This is a little off topic (although the question on the poll made me think of it) has any celebrity ever revived his/her career after appearing on a reality show (not by doing other reality shows), but getting real work? Ok, maybe Mario Lopez, though he won't be winning awards for "Husband for Hire" or "Holiday in Handcuffs".

That's the best idea they can come up with for a movie about hippies? A road trip with acid? I thought the hollywood types are all hippies? They should have some kind of better idea.

How can Lindsay Lohan be in "dire financial straits"? I mean, she's not exactly paid minimum wage for her movies, even the ones that tank.

Where did her money go? Drugs? Agents? Security? Parents? Legal fees? Partying? Rent? Shopping? All the above? I don't get it.

I think that Lindsey, like Drew, actually has talent and smarts, and if she can shake off the parental leeches, she stands a chance to recover her life and career.

I watched "Life-Size," a movie starring Linz and Tyra B., this last weekend with my boyf's 7-y.o. daughter. It reminded me of what a sweet, fresh-faced kid LL was just 8 years ago, and it made me sad to think about what she's become.

Fortunately, the little sprout watching with me has no idea what 21-y.o. LL has been up to, and we plan to keep it that way as long as possible!

BTW, if you're looking for a cute video to watch with a little girl, this is a good one!

isn't the rehab place she stayed like $50K per month or more? Plus, she was living at the Chateau Marmont, eating room service, which was also $100K or so per month. Then factor in the clothes binges she wouidl go on, dropping in the tens of thousands per shopping trip, plus the body guards and other retinue, travel costs, agent fees, legal fees, and I am betting she blew through several million per year easily. She was not earning anywhere in the same universe as Britney, so I can beieve she was broke. And that is all assuming she got her coke for free. If she was paying for the several grams per week, plus the clubbing (her tab plus all her hangers on's tabs), all bets are off.

I'm starting to wonder whether her good movies (I *liked* Mean Girls and that one time she hosted SNL) were the anomaly and this is the reality. It'd be nice to see her pull a Drew, but Drew crashed earlier and had a lot of awkward-kid time to recover in.

Lindsay went through two celebrity rehab centers, supported her siblings, her momanager and unemployed boyfriends, paid her friends, hers and dads legal bills (Michael Lohan was telling the paps how broke he was). Unless Lindsay get hit movie soon, she would probably serving fries to Britney at a drive thru.

isn't the rehab place she stayed like $50K per month or more? Plus, she was living at the Chateau Marmont, eating room service, which was also $100K or so per month. Then factor in the clothes binges she wouidl go on, dropping in the tens of thousands per shopping trip, plus the body guards and other retinue, travel costs, agent fees, legal fees, and I am betting she blew through several million per year easily. She was not earning anywhere in the same universe as Britney, so I can beieve she was broke. And that is all assuming she got her coke for free. If she was paying for the several grams per week, plus the clubbing (her tab plus all her hangers on's tabs), all bets are off.

I'm not willing to rule her out, but she's going to have to expend a lot of effort to turn it around, including making ammends with the Hollywood bigwigs she's angered. Still, it is possible ala Drew Barrymore. I think it is more likely that we are looking at the last gasps of her career.

sorry for the double post.

Drew had to work her way back up, including doing direct to video/dvd movies, not to mention she played one of the many Amy Fishers, somehow I don't see LiLo willing to work backwards to make a decent comeback.

I'm kind of hopeful for LiLo. The girl likes to party, drink and make out w/good looking Italian guys- ummm how many of us when we were about her age did similar things without the public scrutiny? Ok I wasn't making out w/hot ITALIAN dudes but my point is what she is doing is not so unusual for a lot of young people. Fortuanately she has not gotten married too soon, had kids, divorced and had a series of public meltdowns.

I think she can sober up and get back on track like Drew Barrymore before she turns 30.

LiLo = y... a... w... n...

At some point last year, I thought she would be dead before 25. (Actually, I think I thought she'd be "lucky" to see 25.) I am hopeful she will recover from all her demons, not because I think she is a stellar actor or anything, I just hope everyone can get their heads together. If she has to fail as an actor in order to survive & be happy, so be it.

Perhaps instead of a "sober buddy" like Owen Wilson had, what LiLo needs is a foster mom: a mom that will say, "Yes, dear -- I know that everyone's going to be at the club tonight, but you've got a 7 AM call on the set and you don't want to look like you dragged your corpse there. Please don't make me have to set the alarm on your windows again. Get some sleep and I'll have your breakfast ready for you when you get up."

Lindsay Lohan does not need to do movies to make money. She can earn millions doing "appearances." Paris Hilton was recently paid $2 million to attend the fashion show of a 15 year old Russian girl who's dad is super rich.

Paris Hilton: There are young girls who want to be her. Her life looks like fun to them.
Lindsay Lohan: no one wants to be Lindsay.

It sounds as if the writer is hoping to perpetuate Lohan's demise. You need some sh*t to write about, so you're trying to create it?

I won't click your links anymore. Isn't good (for Lindsey) that she's not in the news?

Liz Kelly, you're a jerk.

Okay, I know I'm probably wildly off the mark here, but is it possible LL is just behaving herself?

Good for Lindsey for being out of the spotlight, paying her debt to society and working on herself. Britney needs that.

Stick a fork in Lilo... she's finished. Half of Hollywood can't stand her and the other half just wants to watch her implode.

I like the poll selection comparing her to Tara "The Party Favor" Reid. Like Tara, Lindsay will continue to get small parts in dumb, low-budget films, just for her name recognition. But she's not a great actress, and no studio is going to risk a lead role on someone they can't get insured. And so it goes. She will disappear from the Hollywood scene until the day she is found dead in her grim little apartment, 12-15 years from now.

Eric, you're the jerk. Any one who read this blog knows Liz Kelly actually like Lindsay (a lot more than I do) and wishes her the best in sobriety.

"Another project rumored to be in development is tentatively titled "Hippy," the story of 'a cross-country road trip for a group of friends [that] takes a turn for the worse when one of them drops acid.'"

No doubt dropping acid just before entering the theater will be the one thing that makes this movie watchable.

It's possible this fact will mean that for a brief period, "Hippy" sells more tickets than the laser show at the Planetarium.

Byoolin, would you be willing to take in LiLo when she runs out of dough?

You know funny thing I was reading GoFugYourself and there was a recent picture of her. They are on a Lindsay Lohan leggings watch. What struck me was her face very frozen and old looking in not 'old' but worn brittle. She looks like a cover of a pulp novel about an old successful hooker. Like her mom. Not aging well

I actually was hoping that LL could get herself together because I think she is a decent actress; but right now she just looks haggard. She can't play the young woman when she looks so worn out.
It may sound cruel but Hollyweird is looks driven and there are plenty of other ingenues out there ready to take her place.

Two celebrity reality TV success stories come to mind:

- Anna Nicole Smith got her TrimSpa endorsement gig while she was doing her E show.

- John (Stuttering John) Melendez got his current (although currently suspended due to the writers' strike) gig as announcer on the Tonight Show after appearing on "I'm a Celebrity--Get Me Out of Here!"

She's washed-up. But she still lasted longer than Alfalfa, Spanky and Buckwheat. That's something she can be proud of.

why you be hatin' in LL. She still my No. 1 barely legal freak!

apparently, she's drinking a bit again. a friend was quoted as saying ll knows how to deal w/her sobriety and she has the occasional cocktail. not good, folks, if true.

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