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A Thought on That Family

So, I’m strolling around twitter this morning and there’s a video of every time _____ appeared on TV and suggested he’d fuck his daughter if she weren’t, you know, his daughter. The sickening part is that in many cases Ivanka was sitting beside Daddy and smiling like a beauty pageant contestant while he showed her off like the prize hog at a county fair:

“Look at that body.”

And she’d smile as if that were a compliment, which it might have been had it not come from Daddy, but that’s just one creepy Donald story.

The other involves Junior, who suggested on Twitter that Joe Biden was so addle-brained that even Barron could win a debate with Joe. I wondered what Melanie thought of Junior bringing up Barron, but then someone posted this:

And that explains everything. It explains why Junior runs to Fox News almost daily to prop up dear old Dad. He wants Daddy to want him as much as Daddy wants Ivanka. I think, in a way, Junior wants Daddy to fuck him.

But Daddy isn’t quite done fucking America yet.

November is coming.

Vote Blue to unfuck America.

Who's To Blame For Lindsay Lohan?

Lindsay Lohan is a popular figure on my blog, making very regular appearances for her deeds and, most of all, her misdeeds. I've always wondered about the spoiled brat mentality; those people who think they are entitled to certain things because they have a certain 'something', which in Lohan’s case is a level of fame; fame that is mostly now notoriety.

So I was intrigued by the NYT Magazine article, written by Stephen Rodrick [original article HERE and well worth reading] and his thoughts on Lohan; who she is and what she's become because of her parents, because of the Hollywood machine, and because of Lindsay Lohan herself. He was allowed access to the set of Lindsay's first starring role in a feature film in several years, the soft-core porn film noir The Canyons, written by Bret Easton Ellis.

It all began innocently enough. Lindsay Lohan met with director Paul Schrader--he, himself, in desperate need of a comeback--and producer Braxton Pope to discuss a role in The Canyons. They met at the Chateau Marmont, where Lohan was racking up a $46,000 bill she would end up not paying and  Lindsay sat down and said, instantly, “Hi, how are you? I won’t play Cynthia. I want to play Tara, the lead.” 

And they were off. Pope and Schrader had heard the stories about Lohan; the arrests, the house arrest, the rehab stays, car crashes, and criminal activity. Schrader’s daughter begged him not to use Lohan, and one of his casting-director friends stops the conversation whenever Lohan's name is mentioned. So you know this won't end well.

Still, Schrader, Pope and Lohan talk details: Lindsay will be paid $100 a day--you read that right--and an equal share of any profits; there would be no trailers on the set. Lindsay is contracted to do one four-way sex scene in the film and would have no vote in decision-making. Those last two clauses are nonnegotiable.

On the say of the first read-through of the script Schrader sat at the head of the table, with Ellis and Pope sitting nearby; the other actors, including porn star James Deen, Lindsay's love interest, and Nolan Funk, part of their onscreen love triangle took their seats. There was no Lohan. Schrader said, “Lindsay said she couldn’t make it today, and I told her that was fine, but I have an actress in Paris waiting by the phone.” He smiled, and then said, “She’s on her way.”

About 20 minutes later, Lohan arrived with an assistant following her. As she took her seat, across from Nolan Funk, he noticed that his name had been crossed out in Lohan’s script and underneath were the names of three or four actors as possible replacements. Ellis saw that Deen’s name also had a line through it. Apparently Lindsay thought of this as not being involved in the decision making process.

At the end of that day, Lohan headed outside to smoke, and stopped to speak with Stephen Rodrick: “I’ve missed this so much. I’m in a good place now. I mean it’s Bret Easton Ellis and Paul Schrader! It’s a dream. When it’s done, I want to go somewhere far away, maybe Africa. Uganda? But right now all I want to do is work, work.” A few minutes later, she said goodbye and got into her rented Porsche and disappeared for a few days.

With filming scheduled to start, Schrader arranged for Deen and Lohan to meet him and discuss the movie’s sex scenes. Lohan canceled the first day but promised to be there the next morning; she never showed. Schrader and Pope texted; there were no responses, so Paul Schrader fired Lindsay Lohan before filming began.

From the NYT Magazine piece:

‘He went back to his room at the Orlando Hotel in Beverly Hills and left it to Pope to deliver the bad news. Pope finally reached Lohan, telling her she was done. Lohan began to cry and begged for another chance. Pope told her that Schrader had made up his mind.

Lohan headed for the Orlando. She pounded on doors until she found Schrader’s room. As she banged on his door, she texted him manically. Schrader could hear her crying but wouldn’t let her in. He texted her instead.

“Lindsay, go home.”

The hotel manager rang up to ask if he should call the cops. Schrader told him no and sat down on his bed. Lohan stayed out in the hall sobbing for another 90 minutes before she finally left.’

Later that night, Pope, Lohan and Schrader met at a bar in the Orlando. Lindsay explained that she missed the meeting because she had been discussing the script with Nolan Funk until 3AM and then took a sleeping pill. Schrader told her that if she had one more misstep she'd be gone. If she thought she was unhirable now, wait until he threw her off a microbudget. But then, rather than being worried about his lead actress and her casual use of sleeping pills, Schrader counseled her on the math of when to take sleep aids. It wasn’t about Lindsay, the person, it was about Lindsay, the commodity, and the movie.

But, Lindsay, the person and the commodity, also had a problem co-starring alongside a porn star. As filming progressed, she thought Deen’s performance would overshadow hers; and it did.

From the NYT Magazine piece:

‘She retreated to a walk-in closet a few feet from the bed where the scene would be shot. Lohan had just fired her assistant and was now holed up with an old friend named Gavin.

Schrader waited a half-hour and then went to see if Lohan was ready to shoot. Gavin explained that Lohan was uneasy working with porn stars and actually, truth be told, was uneasy working with Deen.

Schrader lost it.“The thing that’s going to explode from this film is James Deen!”

Lohan screamed from the back of the closet.

“That’s what I’m afraid of!”'

Lohan spent a great deal of time blowing up at director Paul Schrader [“I hope you got my triple chin on that one,” Lohan said. “That shot was hideous.”] and then blasted Deen for doing the same thing just once.

from the NYT Magazine piece:

‘The scene was to be shot at “magic hour,” the hour before sunset, and as usual, Lohan was running late. It had been an endless week of switching day for night, and everyone was on edge, including Deen.

He had reached his limit with Lohan. During rehearsal, Deen and Schrader argued loudly over how Deen was playing the scene. After Deen remarked for the fourth time that he disagreed with how the scene unfolded, Schrader screamed at him. “James [expletive ]Deen, play the scene as I goddamn tell you.”

The two stepped outside and talked for a minute and came back in with sheepish grins. (Later Deen told me, “We yelled at each other because we couldn’t yell at the person we both wanted to yell at.”) Lohan shook her head disapprovingly at Deen.

“That’s unprofessional to treat your director like that. Just very disrespectful.”’

But, Lindsay made have had her own reasons for disliking James Deen, and blowing up at him. Talk is that Deen, the porn star, was the most professional actor on the set of The Canyons, and, worse still, talk is that Deen’s performance far outshines that of “professional” actress Lindsay Lohan. In fact, both Lindsay and Dina went all Jimmy-Crack-Crazy seeing the finished movie.

From the NYT Magazine piece:

‘Inevitably, our conversation turned back to Lohan. [Schrader] showed the film to Lindsay and her mother, Dina, in October at his New York City apartment. They were both so furious about how the camera lingered on Deen that Schrader had to move Dina to another room to get through the screening.
….I asked Schrader if he regretted casting Lohan. He shook his head. 

“No, she’s great in the film.”

Schrader then told me a secret. Until the screening disaster, Schrader had been in talks with Lohan to star in a remake of John Cassavetes’s “Gloria,” about a woman on the run from the mob.

The director lighted up, childlike; hope triumphing over memories of being stripped naked. “It doesn’t involve a co-star. She would be perfect for it.”’

This is Lindsay. She’s a mess. She has problems with drugs and alcohol. She has problems with authority; she has problems with people she thinks of as ‘beneath’ her, like a porn star. But, and this is where I might drive y’all crazy, it’s not all Lindsay’s fault.

I kind of feel sorry for Lindsay Lohan. There was promise; there was a child star who could. Mean Girls is a great example of that; Prairie Home Companion also showcases Lohan's talents. But then her talents were swallowed up by drugs and alcohol, and ego; parents and spokesmen and assistants and "friends". Suddenly Lindsay wasn't an actress, Lindsay was a joke--a weekly joke, here on ISBL, by the way,

She’s got parents who coddled her, spoiled her, lived off her, and through her, rather than being her parents. And she was sent to work in an industry that doesn’t value the person for being a person, but rather for the amount of income that person might generate.

Directors like Paul Schrader coddled her, and gave her drug-taking advice so she could still show up to work. Producers let an actress who was being paid $100 a day charge a $600 lunch to the production.

There is no responsibility, and where there is no responsibility, you have Lindsay Lohan. But, Lindsay is as much too blame for this as anyone else. A spoiled child continues to act spoiled until they are punished; then they might change. But a spoiled child who doesn’t really ever get punished—think of all Lindsay’s issues and crimes and court dates, then ask yourself if you’d get the same treatment—will never stop acting out.

And acting badly. And being a bad actress.

Watch It If You Dare!

Amy Winehouse RIP

Rip Amy

....your talent will be sorely missed.......

It's No Longer Funny, Now It's Just Sick

Okay, I admit it, I've made great fun out of the troubles of Charlie Sheen. Everything from "accidentally" shooting Kelly Preston to holding a knife to wife Brooke Mueller's throat to trashing a hotel room while a porn star hides in the closet.

Good times.

But now, as his show seems on the verge of collapsing, or, at the very least, continuing on without him, Charlie has been giving interviews left and right, and proving that this isn't funny.

This is a sick sick man.

When asked by TMZ who is parenting his ten-month-old twins, Sheen gestured to two young blondes that he calls his "goddesses"--one of whom is a verified porn actress--and several friends lounging in his back yard. "Everybody here is parenting the kids. They're running into walls, but they're screaming 'Da-Da' when they do it."

Porn stars and drug addicts. In CPS involved yet. 

When asked if he had hit rock-bottom after his recent 36-hour bender with drugs and porn tars. Sheen said: "Isn't that a fishing term?" And whenh asked if he is crazy, he says: "I'm grandiose."

And how does Sheen say he will avoid the same drug-induced fate of stars like Michael Jackson and Heath Ledger, he says: "Don't do drugs that are just supposed to be administered in a hospital at home. Read the frickin' labels."

When asked if he thinks he is an addict, he says: "No. No, I don't. Because that's a word and a thing that they tried to stick on me for 22 years. My conduct is bitchin', my condition is perfect."

And he loves his image as a drug-addicted, sex-addicted alcoholic: "I'm proud of what I created. Why wouldn't I be? I exposed people to magic. I exposed them to something that they otherwise would not see in their boring normal lives. And I gave that to them! I mean, what's not to love? Especially when you see how I party. Man, it was epic. The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards all of 'em just look like droopy-eyed armless children."

Sheen said that after years of trying to stay clean, he decided to stop pretending to be someone else and just embrace his life: "Wrap both arms around it and love it violently. And defend it violently, through violent hatred."

When asked if he is bi-polar, as some people are suggesting, he says: "What's the cure, medicine to make me like them? Not gonna happen. I'm bi-winning. I win here, I win there. Now what? If I'm bipolar, aren't there moments when a guy like crashes?"

He then adds: "You borrow my brain for five seconds and just be like 'Dude, can't handle it! Unplug this bastard!' ... It fires in a way that is perhaps not from this terrestrial realm."

He also claims his partying days are over: "I am on a drug, it's called 'Charlie Sheen.' It's not available cuz if you try it once you will die. Your face will melt off and children will weep over your exploded body."

Like I said, it seemed funny, until you hear his actual words, and now it just seems sad.

Happy [belated] Birthday Lindsay

Y'all know that Lindsay Lohan and I are BFF's, right? I mean, that is until she beat me out for the starring role in Mean Girls, and then I bested her in getting the part of Drag Queen #7 in the Smallville Follies. There was some resentment, some bitterness, and I did want to wish her a happy birthday this past week, but I didn't bother. And, now, I'm left baking a cake with a file in it.

Lindsay's going to jail.

Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days [30 days for reckless driving in which she drove into the bushes and fled the scene; 30 days for a DUI she received that night, before she was 21; and 30 days for a DUI she received two months later] followed by a 90-day in-patient rehab program for violating probation on the DUI cases.

This is the life of a twenty-four year old woman.

Lindsay spoke to the court before sentencing: "I wasn't expecting any special treatment aside from the understanding that I have to provide for myself, I have to work. My schedule is, unfortunately, very different. Having said that, I did do everything I was told to do and did the best I could to balance jobs and showing up....I'm not taking this as a joke. It's my life, it's my career....I've learned from my experiences, I take responsibility for my actions, I've tried to do the best I can."

Not so, said the judge. And, to be honest, Lindsanity may end up serving only 23 days of the 90 sentence, which leads one to ask: Why sentence someone to 90 days? Just give them the 23.

And while I have made light of Lindsay's issues with substance abuse and alcohol abuse, along with the stories of her stealing things that don't belong to her, I feel bad for the old gal.

If someone, anyone, including that Enabling-Media-Whore-Mother-Of-Hers had ever said to Lindsay, Enough! she might not be going to jail and rehab right now. But she has been coddled and babied and allowed to live her life with no consequences for far too long, and this is the result.

Enabling-Mother-Dina-Lohan, who couldn't be bothered going with her oldest daughter to court--she was probably meeting her dealer--said, as soon as the verdict was announced: "This is so not fair to do this to my child."

Hey Dina, you moron. Lindsay is no longer a child. She is a twenty-four-old woman with an addiction to drugs and alcohol. She crashed a car two months before turning 21, fled the scene, and was subsequently caught, where her Blood Alcohol Level tested at 0.16 [twice the legal limit] and she tested positive for cocaine. She also said she wasn't driving, which turned out to be a lie. Two months later she commandeered, er, stole, a car, and chased someone through the streets of LA at 80 miles an hour, and once again was stopped. She lied, again, and said she wasn't driving; she was. She said she wasn't drinking; she was. She tested positive for cocaine.

This is not a child, Dina. Get it through your fat fame-obsessed head. This is a drug addict and alcoholic who needs help, and not the kind you offer.

I'll be sending my cake to the Beverly Hills Jail.

Happy Birthday Lindsay. And instead of getting gifts from everyone else, why not give yourself a gift and get your fucking life together.

Lock Up The UnGodly...Like Bryan Fischer

You know, it's funny, and sad, too. Just when you think people can sink no lower, a door is opened to reveal they have an entire subbasement of hate for the LGBT community.

Case in point, wingnut, asshat, fucktard, and American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer, in answering a letter regarding homosexuality, HIV/AIDS, and the Bible, believes homosexuals should be locked up. in prison. To undergo some sort of gay detox.

Fischer:

It might be worth noting that what I actually suggested is that we impose the same sanctions on those who engage in homosexual behavior as we do on those who engage in intravenous drug abuse, since both pose the same kind of risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. I'd be curious to know what you think should be done with IV drug abusers, because whatever it is, I think the same response should be made to those who engage in homosexual behavior.

If you believe that what drug abusers need is to go into an effective detox program, then we should likewise put active homosexuals through an effective reparative therapy program.

And, Bryan, what would suggest we do with the children who are HIV+? The straight women and men? is it just "The Gays" you want to lock up because, well, we all know "The Gays" are here simply to spread AIDS to the world.

Fischer:

Secondly, I'm afraid you're simply wrong about the Bible's perspective on the law and homosexuality. Paul lists quite explicitly in 1 Timothy 1:8-11 the actions and behaviors that are the proper concern of the law:

"Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine..."

The bottom line here is that, biblically, those "who practice homosexuality" should come under the purview of the law just as much as those who take people captive in order to sell them into slavery.You express a belief in the Scriptures, and I trust your confidence in Scripture is not selective. If you believe all Scripture is inspired, then you are compelled to accept that legal sanctions may appropriately be applied to those who engage in homosexual behavior.

Interestingly enough, Fischer just pulls out the words "men who practice homosexuality" as those he deems unworthy of walking free. Yet, according to Bible verses he quoted, those punishable by law are also the unholy and the profane, people who hit their parents--those parents who hit their children are apparently safe--liars, and perjurers.

I think if Bryan Fischer were to take that Bible verse literally, and all of it, not just the pieces that apply to his own sense of hatred for the gay community, we'd have more prisons in this country than we have homes.

But then wingnuts like Bryan Fischer don't take the entire Bible seriously; they only take the few sentences that talk about homosexuality to heart. For the people like Bryan, I might suggest that if you want to live by the word of the Bible then live by all the words, not just those that you deem appropriate.