Lindsay Lohan: Is Any Publicity Good Publicity?

For me this troubled darling of the media crowd is a perfect example of the saying 'Any publicity is good publicity'. Her career (such as it is) has always seemed to rely on rumors and hear-say. From the much publicized feud she (apparently) had a few years ago with 'Hilary Duff' through to her excessive partying and on into her current alcoholism and drug abuse. Through it all the media has shone its manipulative light upon her life making it seem oh so much more important than it really is. It begs the question, 'what was she initially famous for'. If you think about it what did she do to become famous? It certainly wasn't her cutesy performance in the Disney film 'The Parent Trap' and she was a barely known 2nd class celebrity citizen when the media decided to propel her into infamous superstardom by dramatizing her incredibly minor spat with 'Hilary Duff' (I still don't know what the fight was about!). Do you think her publicist or manager cried foul when they suddenly started seeing her on the front page of the junky-tabloid trash mags that populate the counters at the supermarket check-out or did they just rub their respective hands together in glee.

In the past few years something of a symbiotic relationship has evolved between the beleaguered Super?-Star (Star of what exactly?) the paparazzi and the eager magazines who tout all this tripe as 'need to know celebrity gossip' making all of them a ton of cash.. Whatever talent she may have had has certainly been corrupted by her own stupidity and her parents mismanagement but in its place there's the comforting cha-ching of endorsement deals a-plenty and don't believe that the Entertainment Industry is going to shy away from working with her either. If she's going to attract attention they will continue to throw money her way. Indeed, far from her recent pathetic stints in rehab being a put-off to movie-studios it probably makes her a bigger draw. Being damaged goods isn't what it used to be. Now it seems to replace talent and makes you look more interesting than you actually are. I find that I have (against my better judgment) a certain curiosity to see her latest film 'I know who killed me', even though it's been panned by most critics. Although I like to think of myself as somebody who doesn't slow down to view human road-kill I guess there's that inquisitive side to all of us.

As much as we shouldn't pity privileged young people with money to burn, who party too much and eventually crash and burn emotionally and physically it is a poor reflection on their parents and management (many times the two are the same) who put blinkers on when the mighty dollar is waived before them.