Lindsay Lohan’s Monroe Fantasy

Some fans and critics feel that Lindsay Lohan may have taken her Monroe fandom too far with her latest Playboy photo shoot. Margaret Cho, of the Huffington Post, offers a more sympathetic view:

“The pictures of Lindsay are beautiful, as she is a stunningly pretty girl, and all the bad publicity and jail time haven’t changed that, which is the great promise of youth, the enduring freshness that can withstand even head-on collisions with trains. Her derailment hasn’t been drugs or passing out inside hoodies in the front seats of cars or a lack of undergarments or compulsivity around necklaces, though; rather, the myth of the tragic ingénue has been her downfall, and the Playboyphotos say it most eloqently.

The sadness I feel about Lindsay has more to do with the media’s casting her as Marilyn Monroe, swaddled in red velvet, sad eyes and vermillion lips, and framing her story as if it has already ended. These magazines constantly show her as if she is already dead, and I feel scared and freaked out and mad, like why can’t they just give this kid a fucking chance?

It is a revival of the terrible trajectory played out by Anna Nicole Smith, an eventuality that I hated seeing and could do nothing to stop, and now it happens again with another beauty, and yet we stand by and just watch as a purse gets stolen and a life gets stolen, and in the face of all this burglary we are witnessing on the world’s stage, we are distracted as our humanity gets stolen right out from under us.”


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