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Celeb News: Lindsay Lohan's Playboy spread is a flop
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Lindsay Lohan's Playboy spread is a flop
At least those lawyer fees are paid off...
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The big question media insiders were asking late last week after Lindsay Lohan's Playboy photoshoot was leaked online was whether or not the company's major investment in the actress -- a rumored $1 million -- was worth it.
Lohan's racy photos hit the Web on Friday, a whole week before they were set the debut on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show." Sources told TMZ that Playboy was seriously concerned about how the magazine will sell on newsstands now that the Lohan pics are available online for free.
Playboy wouldn't comment specifically on the issue of sales, but sent a statement regarding the leaked photos.
"Someone took photos of Lindsay's pictorial in an advanced copy of the January/February issue. They posted the photos online without permission," Playboy rep Abigail O'Donnell said in an email Friday.
Hefner himself took to Twitter Friday after the leaked photos got out and announced the magazine would release Lohan's issue online at i.Playboy.com earlier than expected.
"Because of the interest & the Internet leak, we're releasing the Lindsay Lohan issue early," Hefner tweeted, adding the issue would be a Collector's Edition. "Lindsay Lohan was the top search name on the Internet yesterday. Her issue goes on sale late next week. Hot. Hot. Hot."
The much-anticipated Lohan issue was expected to be a big money-maker for the magazine, which saw its rate base -- the circulation numbers guaranteed to advertisers -- fall from 2.6 million to 1.5 million in 2010. But with the entire spread leaked early, some media and pop culture experts say sales of the print edition could be hurt.
"Anyone with Internet has already seen [Lohan's photos] and let's face it: If you like ****, you have the Internet," said Cooper Lawrence, author of Cult of Celebrity. "They're nothing special -- no full-frontal, very airbrushed; it's a big yawn. If they were hot then pictures sales would still be high, but since they only disappoint I expect it to be one of the lowest sales the magazine has had. Her star is burning out and this is us watching her on the way down."
Other magazine insiders disagree, saying the leak could pique interest in the spread without cannibalizing newsstand sales.
"The entire spread and photos were going to end up online anyway, whether it was a week early or the day the issue hits newsstands," In Touch Weekly Senior Editor Dorothy Cascerceri told The Huffington Post. "This generally happens with almost all magazine photos and stories."
Cascerceri also added that while the leak made the highly publicized photos available earlier than expected, it also made them available to people who might have never seen them at all.
"There are two categories of people -- those who will generally read articles and look at photos online and people who will actually go out and purchase a magazine because they want to get their hands on it," she said. "A leak doesn't generally sway people to change their buying habits, but a leak does attract many people who may not have been interested or may not have had Lindsay's Playboy spread on their radar. Now they do."
And some spin doctors think the initial leak could have been an inside job.
"I would tend to believe this was a clever marketing move by a person close to Playboy," Hollywood publicist Michael Sands told The Huffington Post. "In a bad economy and when you pay a celebrity close to a million dollars, you have to create a buzz and leak the photos to create sales."
However, according to Fox News, the entire Playboy issue was available via a file-sharing website based in Russia. An anonymous individual, who claims the hacked Lohan issue was not his first time distributing Playboy images, made the images available for purchases via a different Web site based out of the Ukraine.
"When I've done it before, Playboy sent a email to take down the links, and I do," the individual, who asked to remain anonymous, told Fox News.
According to Playboy, the issue featuring Lohan is available now on i.Playboy.com and hard copies of the January/February issue should be available around Dec. 16.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...?ncid=webmail2
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Amidst the holiday melee, shoppers aren’t rushing to pick up their copy of the much-talked about Lindsay Lohan issue of Playboy this week.
It was one thing to see Lohan’s nude Playboy spread when it was leaked on the Internet last week. It’s another experience entirely to see the 10 pages of photos in person in the magazine, which hit newsstands Friday.
But not many consumers are paying for that experience. In fact, interest seems low in seeing Lohan’s intensely air-brushed impersonation of Marilyn Monroe in glossy print. Fox411 spent Friday morning trolling the shelves of newsstands and gas stations from New York to Philadelphia only to be confronted with the same reality at each: Lohan’s glassy-eyed stare peaking above the backs of more family friendly fare, with no one staring back or making a purchase.
“No one has bought it,” was the resounding answer to our query at each stop.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise. Once the photos were leaked, the response to the spread, for which Playboy paid a reported $1 million, were lukewarm across the board.
“I'm not surprised at all. Despite Playboy's hype, there was nothing particularly shocking or new about this shoot. While these shots may have been slightly closer to full frontal than Lindsay's previous shots, they weren't actually full frontal; there was also nothing particularly new about Lindsay dressing up as Marilyn Monroe,” says Lux Alptraum, editor of Fleshbot.com.
“I thought the shots were really boring and didn't really live up to the promises Playboy had made," Alptraum added. "If they'd actually gotten full frontal shots of Lindsay, or come up with a fresher, more interesting concept, there might have been more demand for the photos.”
In an exclusive interview with E! News Hugh Hefner himself admitted that he originally had doubts about including Lohan in the magazine and putting her on the cover.
“It really came as a surprise to me," Hefner told E! "I kind of had mixed emotions about it initially, and then it turned into something bigger than life. "I wasn't quite sure where she was at in her life, obviously. It depends on whether it's Tuesday or Thursday."
The Lohan pictorial was leaked online last week after a hacker found the pictures on a shared computer server. The leak spooked the magazine, which decided to move up their publication date and release the pictures on their own site to try to maximize sales in the wake of the leak.
"Because of the interest & the Internet leak, we're releasing the Lindsay Lohan issue early," Hef himself tweeted. Playboy reportedly printed thousands of extra copies of the magazine in anticipation of a rush on it.
The entire roll-out for the Lohan Playboy spread has been mired in disaster. After a travel snafu this week, Lohan was unable to make it back from a Hawaiian vacation in order to do her single interview for the shoot with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. And now that the magazine has hit newsstands without a ton of fan fare, it appears Lohan won’t be giving any interviews about the spread.
Playboy did not return e-mails for comment on the pace of sales since the issue hit stands.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...retailers-say/
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You are clearly obsessed with Lindsay, it's so annoying.
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Originally posted by Pelvic Thrust
You are clearly obsessed with Lindsay, it's so annoying.
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I see you are not pleased with the articles. Oh well...
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Lindsay *****. Who cares.
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Good. this bitch needs to vanish. And that covers awful.
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oh no. poor girl cant get a break
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Lohan 
She's a joke to most people now. Such a waste of talent.
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I will not have my fellow Hilary stans dissing Lindsay. You guys need to grow up and stop living in 2004.
Anyways, now we are adding magazine sales to the mix of reasons to drag people on here? I better get some receipts going then...
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I saw them, she looked great but it was very airbrushed. Oh wells
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She should get back to singing. 
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Well she still got a million dollars. 
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Originally posted by Pelvic Thrust
You are clearly obsessed with Lindsay, it's so annoying.
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Hey hey now, Boy can make threads about whatever he wants 
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I never understood why they thought men would pay to see goods that have been splashed(and God knows her goods have been splashed) all over the net for years. Or were they relying on men Hefners age who have no clue how to even switch a PC on?
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I have no idea how **** magazines could still manage to be a viable business.
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Originally posted by Rentboy
I never understood why they thought men would pay to see goods that have been splashed(and God knows her goods have been splashed) all over the net for years. Or were they relying on men Hefners age who have no clue how to even switch a PC on?
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IKR?
Nobody buys **** magazines anymore.
They should just switch to digital **** books. 
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Originally posted by MrPeanut
I have no idea how **** magazines could still manage to be a viable business.
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the articles.
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But it hasn't actually flopped yet, right?
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
But it hasn't actually flopped yet, right?
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my dicks flopped looking at that cover
the red curtains clash with the odd shaped red chair....and thats before you even get to the 40 year old mess straddling it.
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She can't catch a break. 
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Well how many times had we already seen Lindsay's boobs over the last few years, whether it was in that awful stripper movie, in one of her countless Monroe-inspired photoshoots or just popping out of her tops in candids?
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