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Celeb News: NY Times: Here's What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan...
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NY Times: Here's What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan...
A fascinating and pretty tragic piece from a journalist that was on-set during the filming of The Canyons. It's long, but really intriguing and shines a lot of light on Lindsay's on-set behavior and just the sadness of this whole situation.
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Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie
By STEPHEN RODRICK
Published: January 10, 2013
Lindsay Lohan moves through the Chateau Marmont as if she owns the place, but in a debtor-prison kind of way. She’ll soon owe the hotel $46,000. Heads turn subtly as she slinks toward a table to meet a young producer and an old director. The actress’s mother, Dina Lohan, sits at the next table. Mom sweeps blond hair behind her ear and tries to eavesdrop. A few tables away, a distinguished-looking middle-aged man patiently waits for the actress. He has a stack of presents for her.
Lohan sits down, smiles and skips the small talk.
“Hi, how are you? I won’t play Cynthia. I want to play Tara, the lead.” Braxton Pope and Paul Schrader nod happily. They’d been tipped off by her agent that this was how it was going to go. They tell her that sounds like a great idea.
Schrader thinks she’s perfect for the role. Not everyone agrees. Schrader wrote “Raging Bull” and “Taxi Driver” and has directed 17 films. Still, some fear Lohan will end him. There have been house arrests, car crashes and ingested white powders. His own daughter begs him not to use her. A casting-director friend stops their conversation whenever he mentions her name. And then there’s the film’s explicit subject matter. Full nudity and lots of sex. Definitely NC-17. His wife, the actress Mary Beth Hurt, didn’t even finish the script, dismissing it as ****ography after 50 pages. She couldn’t understand why he wanted it so badly.
But Schrader was running out of chances. His last major opportunity was about a decade ago, when he was picked to direct a reboot of “The Exorcist.” He told an interviewer, “If I don’t completely screw that up, it might be possible for me to end my career standing on my own feet rather than groveling for coins.” A few months later, he was replaced by the blockbuster director Renny Harlin, who reshot the film. Renny Harlin! Schrader is now 65 and still begging for coins.
Pope, dressed in a checked shirt and skinny tie, looks like a producer. His fingers are constantly, frantically, scanning his iPhone. In the fall of 2011, he connected Schrader with Bret Easton Ellis, whose grisly satires brought him early notoriety and who had lately turned to screenwriting. The three were set to make “Bait,” a shark thriller, based on a screenplay Ellis wrote, but the Spanish financing vaporized. Schrader suggested they do something on the cheap that didn’t look cheap. Pope worked his connections with Lohan’s agent, and that’s why she is sitting here on this spring day.
Ellis is noticeably absent, holed up less than a mile away waging one of his frequent Twitter wars. (He has mounted social-media jihads against David Foster Wallace, J. D. Salinger and Kathryn Bigelow.) He thinks Lohan is wrong for the part, especially if she’s cast opposite the **** star he courted online. But he spent all his capital getting his man cast. Also, his condo is under water. Ellis will give in.
Schrader, Pope and Lohan talk details. The film, “The Canyons,” has a microbudget, maybe $250,000. Ellis, Pope and Schrader are putting up $30,000 apiece. The rest will be raised on Kickstarter with promises of cameos, script reviews and — for the low, low price of $10,000 — the money clip that Robert DeNiro gave Schrader on the set of “Taxi Driver.” There will be no studio looking over their shoulders offering idiot notes. The actress will get $100 a day and an equal share of the profits, but no vote in decision-making. This last clause is nonnegotiable.
Schrader goes over some ground rules; no trailers on set and one contractually obligated, four-way sex scene. Oh, another thing, Schrader adds: he will not try to sleep with her. This was probably a more relevant point in 1982, but no matter. Lohan stands up and says goodbye, telling everyone how excited she is to be working with them. She leaves the restaurant, followed by her mother and the mysterious man with the presents.
Back at the table, Pope straightens his tie and exhales. He turns to Schrader* and asks a simple question.
“What do you think?”
Schrader knows he should be terrified, but he’s as giddy as the son of dour Calvinists can be.
“I think this is going to work.”
*Continue to Full Article Here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/ma...anted=all&_r=0
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i dont understand 
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Click the link for the full article, the part quoted is just the first page.
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I read this earlier. It's sad. I wish she would get help because she has issues that go much deeper than drugs and alcohol.
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I hope she finds herself soon. A story like this only leads to tragedy.
And the fact that Brett Easton Ellis was a part of all this.  This article sort of sounds Ellis-esque, though.
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And the fact that Brett Easton Ellis was a part of all this.
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Should we be familiar with BEE?
He wrote this on Twitter in response to the article...
"No. Comment."
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Read the whole thing... Her life reads like a tragedy and I feel sorry for the Schrader.
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Not Gaga derailing the whole production at the end 
But, yeah, it's such a sad story.
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“Lindsay was out with Lady Gaga till 5:30 a.m. Her call was 6 a.m.”
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She makes me sad. Her life is so messed up.
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 i feel bad for lindsay
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This was such an interesting read, its obvious her family is so fame hungry and she was caught in between, I don't think she would be a star if she wanted it (well when she was a kid obvs).
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Should we be familiar with BEE?
He wrote this on Twitter in response to the article...
"No. Comment."
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BEE is known for his crazy ****ed up books (American Psycho, Less Than Zero, Glamorama, The Rules of Attraction, etc.). A lot of them tend to feature very mentally/emotionally screwed up and/or tragically delusional protagonists. He seems very drawn to controversial subject matter and apparently people, too (ie. Lindsay, James Deen). It seems that he has been trying to break into film work more though since his book sales have not been what they used to be.
(Glamorama is my fave from him, btw...)
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BEE is known for his crazy ****ed up books (American Psycho, Less Than Zero, Glamorama, The Rules of Attraction, etc.). A lot of them tend to feature very mentally/emotionally screwed up and/or tragically delusional protagonists. He seems very drawn to controversial subject matter and apparently people, too (ie. Lindsay, James Deen). It seems that he has been trying to break into film work more though since his book sales have not been what they used to be.
(Glamorama is my fave from him, btw...)
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Thanks for the explanation.
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I actually got kind of sad during the part where she told the reporter "I'm trying." Poor girl.
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