General Evans Above Archive for May 06, 2010

Lindsay Lohan circles the drain

May 06, 2010 – permalink

Remember when Lindsay Lohan was known as an actress? Remember when she did comedies rather than being the punchline? Right now she just appears to be circling the drain and the only question is whether the plumbing leads to jail, the morgue, or complete obscurity.

It used to be that the entertainment news shows kept track of her work. Now Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush keeps a running tally of her nights out. It’s almost like he’s trying to publicly shame members of her family into launching a successful intervention, but how do you shame a family that’s shameless?

Michael Lohan does interviews professing his desire to save his daughter but there’s always a feeling that this self-promoting guy has an angle. Like he wants an intervention but only if he can televise it. If he’s serious about his efforts he needs to find a new crusader and take himself out of the equation. His ex-wife, Dina, is no better. In a day and age when paparazzi photos track stars on a minute by minute basis, how can she claim she and her daughter were at home at 11:30pm when the cameras show her at a hotel at 2 a.m.?

As a critic, I think Lohan’s an okay actress. Some people make out like her current state of affairs have destroyed a fantastic creative force, but so far she’s done nothing that will live on in cinematic history. If she has better work, it’s ahead of her. Lindsay apparently has a fascination with Marilyn Monroe. In her drug and alcohol-fueled mind, perhaps she sees an early death as a way to mythologize herself and her talent, rather than face the fact that her career needs a major overhaul.

At this point, it’s even a wonder if her career can be saved. Even if she cleaned up tomorrow, her stumbling, drink-throwing, angry tweeting actions will always be present in every article about her. She’d always be “Hollywood bad girl Lindsay Lohan…”

Where do you think she’s headed? Can she be saved or are we just waiting for the gruesome TMZ story that leads off with “The LAPD reported they found the actress…”