Anytime you talk about Lohan, you have to talk about the countless reels of footage of her running away from paparazzi into a club, holding an oversized hobo bag aloft to shield her face from a greedy public obsessed with her downfall. Who could be surprised that Lohan has forever been trying to outrun the bad press that started plaguing her when she was barely old enough to vote?
She recently moved to Dubai, where paparazzi photography is heavily regulated, and where images of her became harder and harder to find. Beach Club gives Lohan more control than any project of hers has in the past decade. I want to be my own boss. Maybe she can make this work? She teases the idea of being open to the public — of setting the record straight, of finally moving forward, of becoming bigger than the tabloid headlines we all remember about her — but fails to fully commit, whether out of fear or exhaustion or just plain lack of imagination.
While Lohan was once the subject of exploitation — by her family, other reality shows, the gossip industry — now, someone else is the butt of the joke. Other young famouses from the age of Uggs and flared micro miniskirts — Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus — had previously rich and famous families that helped launch them to stardom or notoriety. The Lohans, meanwhile, became famous for being awful, intrusive stage parents.
Her parents divorced in , when Lindsay was 21, after years of rumors that Michael had abused Dina, often in front of Lindsay. It only got one season; Lohan was not a cast member. Aliana is a singer whose new single was released around the premiere of Beach Club , surprise surprise, while their younger brother Dakota is a model.
Mike Jr. The established narrative about Lohan was written long before she was old enough to start contributing to it herself: Her father was a deadbeat, her mother was fame-hungry, and Lohan was likely keeping the family afloat financially — merely a tool in their ongoing divorce and attempts to become rich and famous.
In reality, she had maybe five or six consecutive successful years after her debut in The Parent Trap , which introduced her as a child star with tremendous moviemaking potential. Get a Clue cemented her as Disney teen star, Freaky Friday proved she could hold a movie on her own, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen gave her an opportunity to do a better Hilary Duff than Hilary Duff, and then, of course, there was Mean Girls, also in But after Mean Girls , nothing hit in the same way, or even close to it.
Maybe she started to lose favor with audiences around the time she started being photographed passed out in the back seats of cars. Or, you know, maybe they were just bad movies. Or maybe she was getting distracted. In , Lohan was also trying to take a run at being a pop star — a career move you could potentially read as one big cry for help. At the end of the video, a photo of a younger Lohan and her sister burns in a fire. The narrative around Lohan has always been that she squandered a tremendous amount of potential, or that her family fucked her up before she even had a chance.
The same year, outlets like People painted her as a desperate, lonely, serial liar in a downward spiral — perhaps a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. Her behavior became more erratic; remember when she called Paris Hilton a "cunt" and then immediately denied it? Addiction is a disease that causes people to continually seek and use drugs—even when they know the results are dangerous and drug use can change the brain.
In fact, the definition of addiction is that people continue to use drugs despite negative consequences. Many factors may have led Lindsay to use drugs and get addicted. Lindsay has openly admitted that her home life was quite chaotic.
She thinks drinking alcohol helped to recreate the chaos of her family as she got older. Lots of studies show that a challenging family life mixed with drugs and alcohol makes quitting drugs difficult, and not just for celebrities. As a young movie star, Lindsay moved to Hollywood on her own. Without a stable family, she felt all the ups and downs that every teen goes through. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, and virtually every male rock musician ever, it appears that heavy drinking and drug use among men is considered less of a liability or a character flaw, and more like an indicator of creative genius.
But of course, nobody has ever thought Lindsay Lohan's alcoholism and drug addiction is a sign that she's secretly a artistic talent constrained by a square world. So while we can't blame the disappointments of Lohan's acting career entirely on systemic misogyny, there's surely a shot or two of proof sexism in that causal cocktail. Intended as Lindsay Lohan's groundbreaking transition into edgy, adult roles, I Know Who Killed Me was shredded by critics and largely ignored by moviegoers.
As The Guardian recalls , the production had to contort itself around Lohan's court-mandated rehab stints, plus a handful of other Lohan-related obstacles. This included so many paparazzi, some of them lurk in the background of shots that ended up in the finished movie. Could it be that the world of was already too sick of hearing about Lindsay Lohan to give the film an honest chance? As critic Charles Bramesco writes, "The baggage [Lohan] dropped off at set only served to deepen and enrich the subtext of a stealth noir gem, one that gestures to a long-bygone era of movie stardom through the framework of a cheaper and dirtier sort of serial killer thriller.
Fair warning: Dry ice and sharp objects interact with human flesh and bone in a manner that leans a little NC The microbudget brainchild of director Paul Schrader and writer Bret Easton Ellis, The Canyons was met with critical scorn and was not widely viewed.
This isn't necessarily surprising, as it's a erotic thriller with a serious mean streak — not exactly mainstream fare. Still, the film's dead-on-arrival status proved that controversy alone cannot always carry a film to profit. The fact that Lohan, according to Schrader, could not be bothered to promote the film probably didn't help push it in front of anyone's eyeballs.
But more importantly, a few years after the movie's release, a deluge of rape and assault allegations ruined the public's ability to comfortably watch Lohan's Canyons co-star James Deen pretend to abuse a woman on screen.
Thus, The Canyons is pretty unlikely to ever become an ironic cult favorite along the lines of Lohan's other "serious" movie fiasco, I Know Who Killed Me. But even before all that fallout hit, as Rodrick's piece chronicles, this production was caught in the ongoing tornado of upheaval that defined Lindsay Lohan's life at the time. It seems reasonable to suggest, in hindsight, that maybe Schrader and Ellis should've known better.
Clearly, Lindsay Lohan's acting career hit its high water mark with Mean Girls. Ever since she played Cady Heron, however, she's drifted further and further away from acting, to the point that it has ceased to be her primary occupation.
So, if you wanted to make the case that she's more than a little washed up as an actress, you could credibly do so. But that doesn't mean she's stopped acting completely — or performing in other ways. Sure, Disney's probably not calling her agent as much these days, but it's not like she's doing nothing. As far as Lohan's music career goes, it may surprise you to learn that she's quietly started putting new music out again as of This ends a long stretch of sonic inactivity, reaching back to the release of her album, A Little More Personal Raw.
Whether she's on the way back to her platinum-selling heights of yore remains to be seen, but we must admit, the lyric "you're like Xanax to me" is certainly not something that would have appeared in any of Lohan's teen pop tunes from back in the day. Even nowadays, when drugs and alcohol have ostensibly been removed from the picture, Lindsay Lohan's career continues to take an unpredictable route.
As it turns out, she's perfectly capable of getting involved in all kinds of weird stuff beyond singing, acting, and getting obliterated after dark. Her MTV reality series Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club only made it through a single season before the featured Mykonos resort — one of Lohan's personal business ventures — ceased operations.
However, People reports two other Greek entertainment establishments Lohan co-owns remain open for business. Moreover, she made several million selling the Mykonos location. Maybe Lohan managed to fail upwards for a change?
While Lohan has had some success as a nightclub entrepreneur, her attempts at humanitarian interventionism have been a far more mixed bag.
In , Lohan got into a bizarre altercation in Moscow with a woman she accused of child trafficking. Maybe when it comes to handling the Syrian refugee crisis, Lohan would be better off supporting international organizations staffed by trained professionals, instead of harassing a family she arbitrarily selected off the street in a clueless attempt to look like a hero on Instagram.
Back in the good old days, if you were a celebrity and wanted to make some extra money with a high-profile advertising gig, you had to cross your fingers and hope that a major company would get in touch with you to appear in one of their television or print commercials.
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