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"After nearly a year and a half of unpredictable tantrums and headline-making antics, director Paul Schrader is finally finding himself &amp;quot;free&amp;quot; of Lindsay Lohan&amp;apos;s wily ways.\r\n&amp;quot;Today I am free,&amp;quot; he told reporters at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, Aug. 30, in statements translated from Italian. &amp;quot;In the past 16 months, I have been hostage to Lindsay Lohan. She is a great actress, she should be here, but her behavior is unspeakable.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe Taxi Driver writer, who has worked with such Hollywood legends as Robert De Niro and Richard Gere, directed the troubled 27-year-old actress in The Canyons, which showed at the film festival -- without its leading lady in attendance.\r\n&amp;quot;Yes, nobody thought it was a good idea for her to go,&amp;quot; a source tells Us Weekly of Lohan&amp;apos;s noticeable absence. &amp;quot;That sort of atmosphere, the festival, the parties. The culture of it is drinking and celebration and not in line with keeping her on the right track.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nLohan recently completed a 90-day court-mandated rehab stay, during which she reportedly turned over a new leaf. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the former Disney star revealed that she&amp;apos;s been making efforts to be &amp;quot;really honest&amp;quot; with herself about her issues and her past.\r\n&amp;quot;Having all the chaos around me that I was so comfortable with -- I somehow inside of me know I wanted to go in jail,&amp;quot; she told the talk show host. &amp;quot;I think that was subconsciously going on in my head through my actions &amp;#x2026; just to have some peace. I came into it just really craving more spirituality, really open and ready to get really honest.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nIn July, Schrader wrote an essay for Film Comment comparing his Canyons star to one of the industry&amp;apos;s most iconic actresses: Marilyn Monroe.\r\n&amp;quot;Similarities? Tardiness, unpredictability, tantrums, absences, neediness, psychodrama -- yes, all that, but something more, that thing that keeps you watching someone on screen, that thing you can&amp;apos;t take your eyes off of, that magic, that mystery,&amp;quot; he wrote, calling Lohan&amp;apos;s high drama the &amp;quot;LiLo phenomenon.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;[They both] exist in the space between actors and celebrities, people whose professional and personal performances are more or less indistinguishable,&amp;quot; he continued. &amp;quot;Entertainers understand the distinction.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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