Okay.
Lindsay Hohan was never really much of an actress (let's not even talk about that abortion of a singing career), but she was a cute redhead who wasn't exactly bad in the remake of The Parent Trap, was reasonably cute in Herbie: Fully Loaded, and was was actually pretty damn good in Mean Girls (Rock on, Tina Fey! Excellent script!).
Maybe if she'd stayed home and worked on her craft instead of hitting the bar scene and hitting the nose candy, she'd have been something. Now... not sure where she's going.
If you're familiar with New York magaazine (and many of you will be, before long), you'll get to see what has to be the last gasp for attention that reasonably-attractive actresses use to try and stay in the public eye before the black hole of the B-List (and lower) pulls them across the event horizon.
Nudity.
Heard much about the great roles Elizabeth Berkeley's gotten lately?
Anyway, here's a couple of shots that define the last legs of what might have been an interesting little career.
Too bad. She was a cute little redhead.
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You know, if she had done her nude stuff in an anonymous indie flick, or a low-budget Z-grade horror movie where she couldn't get work, no one would have minded. However, this seems to be like a grab for attention...or more precisely, notoriety.
I'd rather look at Mariska Hargitay. Not only is she a better actress, she's better looking, too.
To expand on what James said:
The status of nakedity for actresses seems to be a matter of timing and placement. Madeline Stowe took her clothes off a lot in the early part of her career, but these were always somewhat "serious" movies: if you get nekkid for Robert Altman, the important thing is that you were in a ROBERT ALTMAN!!!! movie, and not that you were nekkid (I'm thinking of Ms. Stowe in the altogether in Short Cuts here.) Get nekkid for...I dunno, some piece of straight-to-DVD trash, and the important thing is that OMG, your career was circling the drain so you took your clothes off for a straight-to-DVD piece of trash.
I'd be curious to know people's reactions to the "OMG, they're naked most of the time!" movie Dancing at the Blue Iguana. The premise sounds like an exploitation flick: a look at the sordid lives of several strippers who work at the strip club mentioned in the title. I won't say anything else except that the apt movie to compare it to isn't Showgirls but John Cassavetes The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. That may already give away the game, but—if anybody's inclined to check it out, I'm curious to know what y'all think.
This just in:
LOOK OUT! It's ART!!!!
The text of the article notes this meant to be a recreation of the last photoshoot Marilyn Monroe did: same photographer—Bert Stern
—same method, and, holy moley, same medium—it was shot on film. (Next thing you know, you'll hear about dye-transfer prints of the photos being exhibited at some la-de-dah gallery. (Stern is represented in New York City by the Staley Wise Gallery, which is a pretty serious joint.)
Getting back to timing and placement: the timing for Ms. Lohan getting nekkid may be poor, but this is about the best placement for her nekkidity I can think of. Maybe she'll be naked next for a major director in a prestige film. That, or she'll be found dead of a barbiturate overdose. Either way, her career is on the up again.
I wonder if anyone at the shoot was aware of the grisly irony of shooting Ms. Coke-head in a copy of Monroe's last shoot before her drug-induced death. Didn't anyone there mention how incredibly morbid the whole idea was?
Nice tits, though. :-P
I wonder if anyone at the shoot was aware of the grisly irony of shooting Ms. Coke-head in a copy of Monroe's last shoot before her drug-induced death.
Stern must have, since he was the photographer there as well. OTOH, maybe that particular irony was subordinate to the "no such thing as bad publicity" rule.
—Bert, my God, why are you doing this, not only is she practically jailbait, she could drop dead tomorrow...
—Let's hope so! I'd sure as hell like to think that lightning could strike twice in my career, goddamn it!
Nice tits, though. :-P
Yeah, but surgically enhanced, no? But check out her eyes—or rather the lines around her eyes. Monroe was thirty-six when she checked out, and she didn't have crow's feet like the twenty-two year old Lohan. Scary.
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