Re: Lindsay Lohan
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Well it's already sort of happened apparently. There's rumored to "footage" of her engaging in the same act as the Marilyn footage.
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Nah. That was thoroughly debunked less than 24 hours after it "broke". It was another girl who bore only a passing resemblance to La Lohan, even allowing for the lo-res video.
As for the Marilyn to Lindsay comparison - in Marilyn's day the casting couch was an institutional fact in Hollywood. And Marilyn certainly had her problems with drugs and booze. But she was nothing like the public screw-up that Lindsay (and the rest of the current crop of pop-tarts) has been and certainly wan't the punchline of a dirty joke before she was out of her teens. Marilyn also had a little thing called
talent which pretty decisively sets her apart from Lindsay, Paris and Britney. (Yes, two of them can more-or-less carry a tune, but without their looks nobody would have ever given either of them a record contract or pointed a camera at them.)
Marilyn was a genuine movie star. She defined the idea of the sex symbol for an era. She was a gifted comedienne, who could also bring an aching vulnerability to dramatic roles. She died at the height of her beauty and her fame, after creating a record of genuine accomplishment and holding out the promise of better work ahead. Of course she became a figure of romance, like JFK, James Dean and (ugh) Princess Diana.
I don't see that happening with Lindsay or any of the other interchangable pop-tarts, even if all three of them went down (as it were) in a firey plane crash tomorrow. Marilyn was a
legend by the time Elton wrote "Candle in the Wind". Even Diana was (inexplicably) beloved around the world. None of the current crop will be remembered, much less immortalized, twenty years after they're gone.
Regards,
Joe
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wow! Much more of an impact in print. 
