Lindsay Lohan appears to be doing great

In the game of double thumbing, the safe word is "Mecklenburg."

 

When I was in high school I saw every Sandler movie the day it came out and we listened to his albums while driving around on weekend nights. But sometimes I feel like he didn't grow up with me. A better explanation is he sold out. Those stupid movies make so much money and he gets a cut of the box office. His great, great grandchildren's robot offspring will never have to work. But he actually has a talent for drama. He's great in Punch Drunk Love.


As for the NY Times mag story, I liked it, but I thought the way the Times packaged it sort of exploited the Lohan situation. The headline and cover were misleading about what the story was. To me it was the story of making a low-budget film. The troubled actress who used to have star power was a character in it, but to me Schrader was the main character.

 

Had the story been packaged differently, you would have never heard of it (unless you're an avid New York Times Magazine reader). This was the perfect eye-catching headline/presentation for what the story was. And though Paul Schrader may have been the main character (a point I would disagree with), Lohan was the most interesting.

 

The Times masqueraded the whole thing to be about the making of a movie but let's be real. It's Lohan they wanted the whole time -- the same way the Post or Daily News wants Lohan to move print and stack digital times.

But I don't hold that against them because Lohan *is* the news, and it is a captivating look inside Hollywood, so the Times wins on both fronts.

 

I'm torn. That story made me want to root for The Canyons, but that would mean rooting in some capacity for Brett Easton Ellis, which I cannot bring myself to do under any circumstances.

 

I'm with you, DD.

 

There's nothing tabloidy about wanting readers.

 

It's a Holy Trinity of reeling Hollywood "talent." Lohan, Schrader, Ellis.
Throw Charlie Sheen in there, and they've got two swell teams for beer pong.

 

Hey...

 

THE CANYONS - 1950's TEASER TRAILER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SxShyePUF_I

 

No blue. Folks may not like the movie Spanglish, but Adam Sandler's performance was quite a nice reach by him and very far from annoying. I liken it to Will Farrell's performance in Stranger Than Fiction -- well out of his comfort zone and he did a good job with it.