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Want to help Lindsay Lohan? Try ignoring herJune 6, 2007
I expected it. This week's cover of People magazine featured Lindsay Lohan, bold and in color. But in an ironic and possibly prescient move, the magazine presented two pictures, one of a fresh-faced Lindsay from the beginning of her nine-year-career and one of a drunk or drugged or just tired Lohan being driven away from Los Angeles' famed Roosevelt Hotel.
The dates: 1998-2007.
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The fresh face belongs to the little girl that my daughter and I went to see in "The Parent Trap" in 1998, a remake of a wonderful Disney film. Lindsay was brilliant, Dakota-Fanning brilliant, worthy of speculation that she'd have a lifelong career on the screen.
In the second, she is slouched, mouth open, sans makeup or concern about her reputation. The cover asks "What Happened to Lindsay Lohan?" and "Can anyone save her?"
My question is why should we?
The brilliant young actress makes millions and is surrounded by people whose livelihoods depend on her continuing to breathe. If they don't care, what could possibly be expected of bystanders who just hope our children don't model this self-destructive behavior?
No guidance from mother
After a car wreck and arrest for driving under the influence, Lohan checked herself into a rehab center for the second time. (She's been there, done that, before.)
But guess what? While she's trying to save her own life, her mother, Dina Lohan, is negotiating a deal to star in a reality TV show with her other kids.
The New York Post reported that the 44-year-old "mom," who frequently parties with her underage daughter at the club of the week, watching her smoke and drink, wants to star in a show called "Mom-ager," that would document her efforts to make stars of her two other children, 14-year-old Ali and 11-year-old Cody.
This is allowed in America, particularly in Hollywood. While your oldest child, who supports you, kills herself, look for ways to make sure your other children can get paid.
Help out the smarter kids
Don't get me wrong. I feel so sorry for Lindsay Lohan. No mixed-up kid should be unsupervised, unguided. But I'm sick of doing other people's jobs. I'm sick of us celebrating the cute kids instead of the smart ones, the bright smiles instead of the bright minds.
Somewhere, some kid is working on a cure for cancer. But TV gives us shots of Lohan's empty car, plowed into some bushes and left like a skateboard.
What can we do? Each of us can write to the California Department of Social Services and demand that Dina Lohan's parental rights be terminated before her other kids turn out like Lindsay.
Or we can do this: Ignore Lindsay Lohan. Kill her career to save her. Most child stars save themselves when no one is watching, after the spotlight has died, when they have nothing to do but be better.
Quite frankly, I'd like to do both. I've already started the letter (a reality show, indeed!). And I passed on "Georgia Rule," Lohan's last movie.
ROCHELLE RILEY'S columns appear Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Read them online at freep.com/rochelleriley. Catch her on "Am I Right?" at 8:30 p.m. Fridays on Detroit Public Television (TV-56). Contact her at rriley99@freepress.com (Related) or 313-223-4473.
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