Okay. First there was the pathetic attempt at channeling Elizabeth Taylor and Diane Keaton in some other magazine shoot. Miss Lohan doesn't quite have the authentic guts of Taylor nor the intelligently oddball charm of Keaton. And now she's doing her best Marilyn Monroe for New York Magazine's spring fashion issue. La Lohan and the ultimate pin-up in the same breath is a serious mistake. Lohan apparently did 250 crunches the night before the shoot where as in the original Monroe shoot there was something troubled in her eyes and less of a concentration on looking fit or perfect. Monroe wasn't acting for the camera, she was being, which was the essence of her career. Lohan's dress up, or dress down, is emblematic of her career as a celebrity, which she is showing she's much better at than being a reliable actress. She's got years to go before she can touch stuff like this.
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2 comments:
Gotta disagree with you. First, Lohan looks good. Real good. Real, real, real good.
Second, both Ms. Monroe and Ms. Lohan have--and I know people don't want to hear this--the same amount of talent. They're both decent actresses with beauty and tabloid speculation (and drugs). Marylin is immortalized because of her marriages and associations, her death, and an Andy Warhol painting, but she did nothing too different than a Jane Mansfield.
Honestly, I think this is really a great fit for Lohan, a better fit than Keaton (though Keaton is a one-note actress, she's a different note than Lohan). Taylor I don't know enough about.
Whitney, you are on mark. Monroe was already an American icon before her famous marriages, her death, or the Warhol paintings. But add those facts to an effervescent person with a mysterious past and you have someone infinitely more fascinating than some brat with pushy stage parents.
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