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ENTERTAINMENT / Gossip
Lohan goes from pretty kid to party girl
(AP)
Updated: 2007-07-26 08:56
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Lindsay Lohan poses in this November 2006 file photo in Los Angeles.[AP]
Hard to believe now, after all the arrests, car crashes and late-night
club hopping, that just 10 years ago Lindsay Lohan was Hollywood's
freshest-faced bundle of joy.
The actress, who was arrested Tuesday for investigation of drunken
driving and cocaine possession, was a freckle-faced, cute-as-a-button
11-year-old when she made her auspicious film debut in 1997 in the
venerable Disney comedy "The Parent Trap."
Now 21, Lohan looked anything but fresh-faced in the mug shot released by
the Santa Monica Police Department following her arrest. But 2007 has
been a troubled year for the actress whose latest film, "I Know Who
Killed Me," reaches theaters Friday.
Lohan has been in and out of rehab twice since the beginning of the year,
managing to wreck a Mercedes-Benz between visits to the Wonderland Center
in January and the Promises Malibu Alcohol and Drug Rehab Treatment
Facility in June.
The car crash, over Memorial Day weekend, also resulted in a
drunken-driving charge.
It wasn't always like this for Lohan, who once got much more attention
for her films than her visits to nightclubs and police stations.
"Little Lindsay Lohan, who plays the dual role made famous by Hayley
Mills in Walt Disney Pictures' remake of 'The Parent Trap,' is an
amazingly gifted child actress, a natural camera performer with lots of
smartness and sparkle," Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Wilmington
wrote of Lohan's debut.
Though few knew it at the time, Lohan was already a veteran, having
appeared in more than 60 TV commercials and the soap opera "Another
World" before "The Parent Trap," according to the biography on her
MySpace page.
She followed "The Parent Trap" with a few TV films and then another
theatrical hit with 2003's "Freaky Friday." But it was as Cady Heron,
the-good-kid-turned-mean-kid-turned-good again in 2004's "Mean Girls,"
that Lohan broke through to wider audiences.
It was also about this time that the tabloid headlines began crowding out
the movie reviews.
It started innocently enough, with a 2004 red-carpet dustup with fellow
teen star Hillary Duff over boy toy Aaron Carter. The world also began to
notice how the once-scrawny child star had developed into a voluptuous
woman partial to revealing outfits and wardrobe malfunctions, the photos
of which quickly found their way onto the Internet.
Her weight began to fluctuate dramatically, and Vanity Fair reported in
2006 that Lohan acknowledged to dabbling in drugs and having been
bulimic. The actress quickly issued a statement saying the magazine had
"misused and misconstrued" her remarks.
Lohan smashed up her first Mercedes in May 2005, telling police she was
fleeing a paparazzi photographer when she made a U-turn and collided with
him. She wrecked another in October of that year trying to flee as many
as 30 photographers who witnesses said surrounded her as she left a
boutique.
She also began making periodic visits to hospitals in 2005, being treated
at least once that year for exhaustion. She was hospitalized at least
twice in 2006, the first time in London for a cut on her leg and the
second time in the Miami area for an asthma attack.
Not everyone believed all of her physical problems were health related
鈥� Lohan, who didn't turn 21 until this month, has long been a fixture
on the Hollywood nightclub scene.
"We are well aware that your ongoing all-night heavy partying is the real
reason for your so-called 'exhaustion,'" James G. Robinson, head of
Morgan Creek Productions, said in a letter last year chastising the
actress for showing up late, if at all, to the set of the film "Georgia
Rule."
Her father, former futures trader Michael Lohan, has had his own problems
with the law. He was released from prison in March after serving nearly
two years for attempted assault and driving while intoxicated.
Despite her problems, Lohan has continued to work frequently until now,
both as an actress and singer with several albums to her credit.
"Lohan rises to the occasion, delivering a rock-the-house version of
'Frankie and Johnny,'" Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers said of her
singing in "A Prairie Home Companion."
Whether her latest run-in with the law will hurt her career remains to be
seen, said veteran publicist David Brokaw, although he noted both fans
and Hollywood moguls tend to be forgiving of celebrities if they clean up
their acts.
"Her young fans and the industry will embrace her," said Brokaw, who does
not represent Lohan. "But I think wondering about how people feel about
where she's at right now is secondary to can this young woman accept real
treatment and find a way to manage her behavior. She's right now in a
spiral of recklessness."
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