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I enjoyed reading this article about what it means to cast Lindsay Lohan in your movie. Lindsay Lohan is inherently interesting. Disaster and beautiful, when they come in the same package, are intriguing. But it didn’t satisfy me. It’s not like I was surprised to hear that Lindsay shows up late, frequently drunk, and acts like a diva. I wanted to learn something new about her—like she does a great money shot, or has warts on her feet, or spray painted her entire house gold, or adopted seventeen chimpanzees. I’d love even just to read the salacious and pathetic personal histories of her myriad assistants.
In any case, this movie is probably going to be terrible—another version of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis, really?—but I will definitely go see it. And rock on, LiLo. I’ll wait for your comeback until the day you die. Which actually, given that your antics aren’t half as bad as say, my little sister’s, won’t be any time soon.

I enjoyed reading this article about what it means to cast Lindsay Lohan in your movie. Lindsay Lohan is inherently interesting. Disaster and beautiful, when they come in the same package, are intriguing. But it didn’t satisfy me. It’s not like I was surprised to hear that Lindsay shows up late, frequently drunk, and acts like a diva. I wanted to learn something new about her—like she does a great money shot, or has warts on her feet, or spray painted her entire house gold, or adopted seventeen chimpanzees. I’d love even just to read the salacious and pathetic personal histories of her myriad assistants.

In any case, this movie is probably going to be terrible—another version of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis, really?—but I will definitely go see it. And rock on, LiLo. I’ll wait for your comeback until the day you die. Which actually, given that your antics aren’t half as bad as say, my little sister’s, won’t be any time soon.

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Liz & Dick: A Review

I just wrote an entire post on Liz & Dick that got deleted by fucking Tumblr, which doesn’t autosave, and is maybe the worst platform ever. Now I’m fucked for time. This review will be brief, and Tumblr should get their shit together. 

To begin again, last night, I watched Liz & Dick, the Elizabeth Taylor biopic on Lifetime, which stars Lindsay Lohan.

If you are a media whore like me, you know that it got terrible reviews. But I must ask the people harping about it: “What the fuck did you expect, it’s a fucking Lifetime movie.” I’m not a connoisseur of the medium—the only other Lifetime movie I’ve watched in recent memory was “Will & Kate,” which might as well have been enacted by cardboard cutouts—but I certainly did not expect it to be even remotely decent. 

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Yesterday I interviewed Richard Phillips about his film collaboration with Lindsay Lohan, which is premiering at Art Basel next week. I really enjoyed our conversation, both because Phillips is really articulate, and because I love talking about Lindsay Lohan.

I like the new film better than the one above—the new one is this David Lynchian surfer homage—but both are fun to watch.

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Doing a lot of research about Marilyn Monroe today, which brought me to the seemingly irrelevant news item that Lindsay Lohan will yet again copy one of Monroe’s iconic shoots—the first was “last sitting” with Bert Stern for New York Magazine in 2008, and the most recent is the above Valentine-red nude shoot she did with Tom Kelley—for the January/February 2012 issue of Playboy.
It seems impossible that Lindsay Lohan will resuscitate her career (or herself), but it occurs to me that she might actually be my generation’s Marilyn, the only difference being that she hasn’t been married three times…or at all…or probably ever. Come on, who would touch that thing. Oh also, she doesn’t really work…and she disappointingly hasn’t made any pornography like Marilyn did.
Fuck it, Lohan won’t make it. I’m casting my vote for Anna Nicole Smith. 

Doing a lot of research about Marilyn Monroe today, which brought me to the seemingly irrelevant news item that Lindsay Lohan will yet again copy one of Monroe’s iconic shoots—the first was “last sitting” with Bert Stern for New York Magazine in 2008, and the most recent is the above Valentine-red nude shoot she did with Tom Kelley—for the January/February 2012 issue of Playboy.

It seems impossible that Lindsay Lohan will resuscitate her career (or herself), but it occurs to me that she might actually be my generation’s Marilyn, the only difference being that she hasn’t been married three times…or at all…or probably ever. Come on, who would touch that thing. Oh also, she doesn’t really work…and she disappointingly hasn’t made any pornography like Marilyn did.

Fuck it, Lohan won’t make it. I’m casting my vote for Anna Nicole Smith. 

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Icon of the Week: Evelyn Nesbit

My icons always seem to come to me unwittingly. 

This morning, my friend Erin emailed me and asked me if I had thought of giving Evelyn Nesbit the honor. Strangely enough, my friend Shannan had just sent me some new pages from her book. In them, she describes her main character as having a kind of Victorian beauty.

It’s almost impossible to think the words “Victorian Beauty” without Evelyn Nesbit coming to mind.

Evelyn Nesbit was the first modern media star. Born in 1884, she became famous for her beauty just at the advent of the daily newspaper. At her height, she was Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears all rolled into one.

Only without the drug abuse and the anorexia and the worn-leather look.

Goddamn, isn’t she a peach?

After I write this post, I’m going to put on the silk robe I bought in Thailand, drag out the fake fur rug I bought at IKEA, and assume this pose for the rest of the week. Come rouse me if you dare, but be warned that I will ward you off with my languor and my softly coiffed hair.

For you, Evelyn. For gracing the front pages of the dailies with your love affairs and your exploits and your soft white shoulders. For working the media, for the soft gaze of an instant camera. For being featured in E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime. For all things Victorian, which I covet, for sitting in parlors and baring your legs for love, Evelyn Nesbit, you’re my Icon of the Week.

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Lindsay Lohan in prison as narrated by a Taiwanese game design company. I have these guys on the phone right now to do my life story.

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Things that Quicken My Heart

The Downfall of Lindsay Lohan

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