the girl just can't help it

And just when we thought she was ready to get her career back on track, TMZ informs us that Lindsay Lohan is still a fan of the sauce and nose candy. At this point you have wonder if she's even interested in maintaining a film career. It makes it difficult to sit through a Lindsay Lohan film without trying to look for white residue around her nostrils or wonder if she'd just woken up from a night of too many vodka and Red Bulls and Calum Best. I guess time will only tell, but for a brief moment I was certain that Miss Lohan was going to take us places we'd never been before. She starred in of the smartest comedies in recent years and managed to be under the tutelage of Robert Altman before his untimely death. She's worked with Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, and Tina Fey, all women who can serve as models to the impressionable Miss Lohan and show her perhaps it's not all about late night clubbing with Charlotte Ronson or fittings with Karl, but instead more important to carve out a bold, varied, and dynamic career that can achieve a sense of vitality and relevance. She might be especially careful in the dog eat dog world of young Hollywood and the dearth of challenging and complex roles for younger actress. Jessica Biel, Jessica Alba, and any other mildly attractive ingenue desperate for any high profile gig that bore their leading contemporaries Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman are constantly chomping at the bit and come across as less scandalous and less of a liability. DUI's, arrests, rehab may be her forte, but losing your career at 21 might be her greatest fall that she will struggle to come back from.

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