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"  This story was going to begin with the white picket fence some 20 feet away, separating Lindsay Lohan from the sidewalk. The actress, 36 hours from being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, was sitting on the patio at the Beverly Hills restaurant the Ivy, with her back to the street. Like Tippi Hedren in The Birds, she lit a cigarette with a steady hand, unaware of what was beginning to happen behind her. The L.A. sun was high and white, bleaching the blue from an empty sky, shrinking Lohan&amp;#039;s pupils to pinpoints, even under the shade of an umbrella. Against this harsh light, first one, then two, three, and four, and another and another, and others, silently gathered along the fence, multiplying in the same small space until all the faces became a faceless mass. Waiting. Most wore professional cameras. Some held cheap disposables. A few lumpy tourists took aim with their cell phones, eager to shoot the star should she turn around. That morning E! News had plugged the latest T-shirt declaration: LEAVE LINDSAY A-LOHAN!  It would be an easy transition from there to what Lohan is wearing and eating and promoting. That&amp;#039;s the way these things go. But there&amp;#039;s the picture, and then there&amp;#039;s the bigger picture. The one in which the camera pulls back to reveal the star smiling, knowing what&amp;#039;s going on behind her back. After all, she picked the restaurant, she picked the table outside. &amp;quot;When I pulled up, there were three paparazzi following me,&amp;quot; Lohan says. &amp;quot;I wanted you to see it. But you weren&amp;#039;t here.&amp;quot; She looks disappointed; as if she were wishing I could have seen the dogs hounding the fox into the safety of this celebrity wildlife refuge, famous for its $33 crab cakes, $13 Ivy gimlets, and big-game photo ops. Now I wouldn&amp;#039;t be able to relay the thrilling awfulness of what she has to survive to get a decent meal. But all is not lost. Lohan brightens: &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t wait for you to see what happens when we leave!&amp;quot; She&amp;#039;s funny when she says this; like a kid with a match, eager to set off the fireworks. And I appreciate her efforts to cast herself in a context. The best stars do. Flashback: the summer of 1995, Savannah, Georgia, a drag-queen bar, 2 A.M. Demi Moore throws an arm across my shoulders: &amp;quot;Do I know how to stage a scene for a journalist or what?&amp;quot; I loved her for it. Let&amp;#039;s be real\u2014the two of us were in collusion. Celebrity journalists are with their subjects all the time, even as I speak...oh, look, it&amp;#039;s Nicollette Sheridan! Another flashback. The summer of 2005, New York City, the Marquee Club, 4 A.M. Lohan and her friends and I are drinking Cristal, smoking cigarettes, dancing on a banquette, when, in the middle of 50 Cent&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Candy Shop,&amp;quot; Lohan hails her bodyguard, and, giving me a maternal squeeze, hands me over and says, &amp;quot;I think you better put her in a cab.&amp;quot; That night was so much fun. Lohan, 18, glittering from the success of Mean Girls, had wrapped Herbie: Fully Loaded the week before and was about to start Just My Luck. Freckled and flame-haired, with that wild front cowlick, she was funny and self-aware, scrappy yet sophisticated, and seriously talented. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d seen Freaky Friday maybe seven times,&amp;quot; Meryl Streep, Lohan&amp;#039;s A Prairie Home Companion costar, told W magazine last year. &amp;quot;When they say `Action!&amp;#039; Lindsay is completely, visibly living in front of the camera. She&amp;#039;s in command of the art form. She is a terrific actress. It&amp;#039;s something you could see even when she was little-bitty.&amp;quot; Streep politely declined to comment for this article, as did Jane Fonda, Lohan&amp;#039;s costar in Georgia Rule. But on May 11, Fonda did tell the CBS Early Show, &amp;quot;Hey, when she showed up on the set, she was always great. She breaks my heart in the movie. She is so brilliant. The girl is really talented.&amp;quot; With obvious affection, Fonda added, &amp;quot;She was late one day, and I got mad and went in and said, `Get your ass out here!&amp;#039; I raised my voice and she said to her makeup person, `Barbarella just yelled at me!&amp;#039;&amp;quot;  Like one of her idols, Marilyn Monroe, Lohan has the pull of someone incredibly beautiful and sad. At times during our 2005 interview, she was honest to a fault\u2212so much so that I felt compelled to advise her to take some of what she was telling me off the record. She was adorable, endearing. Besides, I owed her. How often does someone take you in and remind you how it feels to be 18 and not tired and so alive? With the sun sneaking up over the East River, I got home and left my editor a voicemail: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve got two words for you: Freaky Friday.&amp;quot;  Back then I asked Lohan&amp;#039;s mother, Dina, if she worried about her daughter&amp;#039;s late nights out. She had an insanely logical reply. &amp;quot;Lindsay is so much more protected being a star,&amp;quot; she reasoned. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s either being photographed or the security guy is with her. She gets more supervision than most kids. You know that ad, `It&amp;#039;s 10 P.M. Do you know where your children are?&amp;#039; Well, I know where my daughter is!&amp;quot; Much has changed over the past two years. Lohan&amp;#039;s hair has been bleached blond; her green eyes have turned gray beneath colored contact lenses. She now has a driver&amp;#039;s license. And despite the disappointing box office returns of Herbie, Just My Luck, A Prairie Home Companion, Bobby, and Georgia Rule, she&amp;#039;s become ever more sought-after. Her former straggle of babysitting paparazzi, now a mercenary army, follows and fights for the money. Given the mass public&amp;#039;s extortionate interest in celebrities, there money to be made is major. Lohan is at the top of the pile\u2212the picture of her passed out in the front seat of a car sold for more than $150,000. But hell, these days you can sell a shot of a reality-show reject plugging quarters into parking meter. Stars! They&amp;#039;re Just Like Us! Yes, I&amp;#039;ve bought the tabloids, too. Now our girl is in serious trouble. She&amp;#039;s been enabled through countless club nights; toxic relationships; delays on movie sets; hospitalizations for exhaustion, dehydration, a swollen liver, a kidney infection, and an appendectomy; two incidents of missing underwear; four car accidents; two lawsuits; any number of lost opportunities; a pseudo rehabilitation at the ridiculously titled Wonderland Center...all before the age of 21. Leading us to the wee hours of May 26 and a black Mercedes-Benz with two passengers, a &amp;quot;usable amount&amp;quot; of cocaine (according to the Beverly Hills police), and Lohan at the wheel, speeding out of control down Sunset Boulevard. At press time, she is facing DUI charges (toxicology reports indicated nearly twice the legal limit of alcohol and traces of cocaine in her blood). And she&amp;#039;s back in rehab, this time at Promises Malibu. When she gets out she&amp;#039;ll start shooting the comedy Poor Things with Shirley MacLaine and Rosario Dawson. Rather than recast her role in the project, the studio put her scenes on hold until she is available. As I write this, it&amp;#039;s unclear when that will be. Lohan opted to extend her stay at Promises beyond the usual 30 days, and neither she nor her lawyer could be reached for comment.  With her latest film, the thriller I Know Who Killed Me scheduled to open in July, ELLE had decided months before to put her on the cover this month. That was how it came to be that in Lohan&amp;#039;s last interview before the big crash, I was the one enabling her. ELLE: It&amp;#039;s pretty ironic that you&amp;#039;ve been to rehab before you&amp;#039;ve even turned 21. (Her twenty-first birthday was July 2.) Did you feel pressured to go to Wonderland? LINDSAY LOHAN: I was growing up and going out a lot, and I needed to have a balance. I was glad I went, because I needed to get away from everyone and I didn&amp;#039;t know how to do that. And I learned a lot there. A bunch of my friends\u2212I was with them last night\u2212they&amp;#039;re in AA for, like, years.  ELLE:  The last thing I would say if I were a star is &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll never do...&amp;quot; something again. People hold their breath waiting to catch you. LOHAN: You&amp;#039;re setting yourself up for a disaster. I never say never. The waiter arrives. Lohan orders grilled salmon with broccoli, stone-crab claws, and a Diet Coke. Her assistant, Jenni Munro, a thirtyish, seemingly grounded natural blond, says she&amp;#039;ll be going, but I persuade her to stay. The more the merrier. Okay, she&amp;#039;ll have the lobster ravioli.  ELLE:  I Know Who Killed Me opens in July? LOHAN: It&amp;#039;s going against Transformers! It&amp;#039;s a psychological suspense thriller drama. It&amp;#039;s about this girl that&amp;#039;s abducted by this serial killer. Chris Sivertson is the director and he&amp;#039;s, like, genius. Yesterday we had a full board meeting [with the movie&amp;#039;s executives]. I felt like such a businesswoman. I wore black Balenciaga pants and this sick black Herm\u00E8s collared shirt with no sleeves and an open back. Huge Balenciaga heels\u2212I suffered. I was in so much pain; they&amp;#039;re, like, this tall. So high. It was fun. ELLE: You look great in clothes. I heard the photo shoot was amazing. LOHAN: I wanted everything. There was this Cartier watch, and I was like, &amp;quot;What do I have to do to get this watch?&amp;quot; ELLE: Why don&amp;#039;t you just buy it? LOHAN:  I bought two Daytonas and a rose-gold Rolex. They were all stolen. ELLE:  How do these things get stolen? LOHAN:  Me not listening to the people who care about me saying, &amp;quot;Be careful of who you&amp;#039;re with.&amp;quot; You know? ELLE:  [To Munro] You need to interview people before they come into her house. MUNRO:  Believe me, I do. I don&amp;#039;t trust anybody. You can&amp;#039;t. ELLE: So what&amp;#039;s the story with you and Calum Best? Are you still dating? LOHAN: I like him. He&amp;#039;s me in male form. We&amp;#039;re very similar. Stubborn, rebellious, very smart, coy, a little bit narcissistic\u2212I think all actors have a little bit of that, and so they should. We&amp;#039;ll be kidding around, like the other day when we were in the Bahamas... I was walking by some mirror. And he caught me looking in the mirror and he goes, &amp;quot;I caught that!&amp;quot; I was like, &amp;quot;Damn, I look good!&amp;quot; No argument here. Her Irish skin has that kind of baby-chick down that reflects the light on her surprisingly small, fine features. The false-eyelashed eyes, however, are huge, sweeping up at the outer corners. She has tons of hair (her own) and can pull off being a blond, brunette, or redhead with believable ease. She&amp;#039;s never had a phys-ically awkward stage, a humbling bout with adolescence. A Ford model at three, she had 60 commercial credits by the time she was 11 and had been cast in her first movie, a Disney remake of the studio&amp;#039;s classic The Parent Trap. It was a big hit, and Disney signed Lohan to a three-picture contract. When the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday earned $160 million, the studio wrote its 17-year-old star a $1 million bonus check.  Lohan reaches for her BlackBerry and starts texting. &amp;quot;Sorry, I have to RSVP to a friend&amp;#039;s wedding. This is my ADD kicking in. I&amp;#039;m going to do the singer Mickey Avalon&amp;#039;s video. I&amp;#039;m singing this song, &amp;quot;One, two, three, four/ Get your booty on the dance floor/ Work it out/ Shake it, little mama/ Let me see you do the Jane Fonda!&amp;quot; I play a young Jane. I&amp;#039;m trying to get Jane to be in it with me. ELLE:  That would be cool. LOHAN: And I heard they&amp;#039;re remaking Barbarella. ELLE: Are you going for it? LOHAN:  I mean, I want to. [To Munro] Who&amp;#039;s doing it? MUNRO: Robert Rodriguez. LOHAN: Genius. I want to do that, and there&amp;#039;s this Walter Salles [director of Motorcycle Diaries] film that I really want to do. It&amp;#039;s called On the Road [based on Jack Kerouac&amp;#039;s book]. It has the vibe of that movie The Dreamers. The character reminds me of my character in Georgia Rule. She&amp;#039;s young and rebellious.... I want to work with Walter Salles so bad. I had to audition for him. It was the first audition I&amp;#039;ve had since Freaky Friday. I was so nervous. And I&amp;#039;m doing another film. [To Munro] Can I say this one? MUNRO: Yeah. LOHAN:  Alfonso Cuar\u00F3n.  MUNRO: Genius. She can act, she can sing, she can dance! If not for her extracurricular activities, Lohan could be in a position to cherry-pick projects for as long as she wants to work. &amp;quot;Her raw talent is unmatched by any other actress her age,&amp;quot; Sivertson says. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s one of those rare people who is both a movie star and a real actress. You want to look at her. You want to see what she does. She makes interesting and unusual choices in a scene and gives a consistent performance with an emotional through-line.&amp;quot; But for the artistry to happen, a prerequisite has to be met: Movie stars have to have insurance. And the policy becomes prohibitively expensive if you make personal life choices that are the equivalent of setting yourself on fire\u2014just ask Robert Downey Jr. Lohan was days away from starting the literary drama Edge of Love when, according to The New York Observer, &amp;quot;she was asked to take a pay cut to compensate for the high cost of insurance after failing her drug test.&amp;quot; In the valley of the dolls, everyone is replaceable. Enter Sienna Miller. &amp;quot;Hi, I&amp;#039;m a really big fan.&amp;quot; A young girl appears at our table, holding a pen and paper. &amp;quot;Can I have your autograph?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Sure,&amp;quot; Lohan says. &amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s your name?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Kate. People say I look like you.&amp;quot;  Lohan smiles. &amp;quot;How old are you? Ten?&amp;quot; Kate nods. Kate is the age of the audience largely responsible for Lohan&amp;#039;s out-of-the-block box-office success.  &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re so tall for ten,&amp;quot; the actress says. &amp;quot;I feel like I wasn&amp;#039;t as tall as you.&amp;quot; She has forgotten. ELLE: Do you have a LEAVE LINDSAY A-LOHAN! T-shirt? LOHAN: LEAVE LINDSAY A-LOHAN? How about, BRING OUR SOLDIERS BACK? I feel like the asshole, the idiot, because I feel like I&amp;#039;m distracting from the other things that are important, like global warming and that kind of stuff. I genuinely mean that. And I don&amp;#039;t know what to do. ELLE:  Well, you could\u2014 LOHAN:  I hate it, like, when these people say, &amp;quot;Well, why do you go to the Ivy if you don&amp;#039;t want...&amp;quot; Seriously, I like their food! I can&amp;#039;t go to a restaurant? I know I&amp;#039;m going to get pictures taken. I&amp;#039;m fine with it. And I&amp;#039;m going to go have their food. People give you shit for it: &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t go on Robertson!&amp;quot; What, I can&amp;#039;t drive down the street? It&amp;#039;s a free country. But she might consider another route, given that she&amp;#039;s gotten into two car accidents fleeing paparazzi on this boulevard. But, enabler that I am, I hear myself saying, &amp;quot;You refuse not to live your life.&amp;quot; Knowing she&amp;#039;ll repeat after me. &amp;quot;I refuse not to live my life,&amp;quot; Lohan says. I should have been a publicist. &amp;quot;You have to live!&amp;quot; Munro says. &amp;quot;You only live once!&amp;quot;  To which Lohan replies, &amp;quot;Live life to the fullest\u2014but in moderation.&amp;quot;  Munro, who sits facing the street, points over Lohan&amp;#039;s shoulder. &amp;quot;Nicollette is waving, you should say hi,&amp;quot; she says. The Desperate Housewives star is waiting for her car, standing in the middle of the maelstrom. Her blond head strains up, her arm sweeps back and forth as if she&amp;#039;s drowning, trying to get Lohan&amp;#039;s attention. Lohan turns and gives a wave. Shots are fired from the crowd.  ELLE:  Oh my God... I cannot believe the number of photographers waiting for you. LOHAN:  That&amp;#039;s, like, nothing. MUNRO:  That&amp;#039;s, like, 50 percent. Can I show her the photo? I have it in here. LOHAN:  Yeah.  MUNRO:  [Hands over a photo] This is leaving the Ivy. ELLE: How can you see, with all the lightbulbs flashing? LOHAN: It&amp;#039;s scary. I can&amp;#039;t. And they&amp;#039;re looking for me to, like, trip, so they can be like, &amp;quot;Oh, Lindsay&amp;#039;s wasted and driving drunk.&amp;quot; And that&amp;#039;s not it. I wouldn&amp;#039;t violate...I&amp;#039;m much more responsible than that. I would not do that. So... [looking over at the paparazzi] You know what the worst thing is? They&amp;#039;re making money off it! It&amp;#039;s like, why don&amp;#039;t the celebrities make money [from the photos]? It&amp;#039;s not right, the fact that someone is making money off you enjoying your time. MUNRO: One picture is more than I make in a day. LOHAN: It&amp;#039;s more than I make in a month, lately. They&amp;#039;ve got BMWs, Range Rovers.... ELLE:  And you&amp;#039;re thinking, Excuse me\u2014I paid for that car. LOHAN: I did! Thank God for Disney. But the hand that once spoiled the child is no longer sparing her the rod. Nina Jacobson, an executive at Disney when Herbie was being shot, told The New York Times she had tried taming the teenager. ``This is the moment in your career where you either become Kristy McNichol or Jodie Foster,&amp;quot; Jacobson said. Nancy Meyers, the director of Disney&amp;#039;s Parent Trap, did the Hollywood equivalent of sending the actress to her room. When, in June, Meyers accepted an honor at the Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards, she posed a question to the audience. &amp;quot;What about young women in Hollywood who started giving women a bad name?&amp;quot; the director began. &amp;quot;The ones who think it&amp;#039;s okay to drink and drive, who don&amp;#039;t wear underwear\u2014and make sure we know it. I understand burning your bra, thank you. I do not understand not wearing your underpants.&amp;quot; ELLE: What&amp;#039;s up with going commando in public? LOHAN:  Me? ELLE:  You\u2014getting off a boat, getting out of a car. You need to spend some time on the naughty mat. LOHAN: It was once, and it was when I was in Venice. And I was rushing through the room, threw the Prada dress on. And that&amp;#039;s what happened. And I didn&amp;#039;t even see the picture. I don&amp;#039;t look at that shit\u2014that&amp;#039;s gross. If I wear a dress I have underwear on. ELLE:  Denial is not a river in Egypt. LOHAN: Can I tell you something? If I&amp;#039;m wearing a nude thong, they retouch it. I f--k around on my computer\u2014I know how easy it is. They make my face look swollen. I&amp;#039;m like, Are you that bored? I hear things about the night before that never even happened. Like, they said I was dating my best friend\u2014the Samantha Ronson thing. She&amp;#039;s my best friend!  I have, like, a lot of best friends. The people that are with me every day, who go through all the shit with me\u2014Jenni, Andy LeCompte, my hairdresser, Samantha, Molly, Jessica, who you met in New York; my mom...but it&amp;#039;s very hard because she has, like, all the kids and I don&amp;#039;t want to burden her with my shit. ELLE: But that&amp;#039;s what moms are for.  LOHAN:  My mom&amp;#039;s been great. ELLE:  Yeah, but I feel like you&amp;#039;re one of these kids\u2014you take care of everyone. LOHAN: That&amp;#039;s one of my issues in rehab\u2014&amp;quot;you need to focus on yourself.&amp;quot; Like Romulus and Remus, Lohan has two rather novel parents. Her father, Michael, a former investment banker, has been in prison twice\u2014the last stint for DUI. While there, he apparently found God, and he is now training to become a drug-and-alcohol-abuse counselor. Dina, her mother-manager, muscles into her daughter&amp;#039;s spotlight\u2014posing with Lindsay and her boyfriend Best in clubs, bringing camera crews with her when she visited her daughter at Wonderland, working the red carpet (in the employ of Entertainment Tonight) at the premiere of Georgia Rule. All of which is freakier than Freaky Friday. The bitter public disintegration of her parents&amp;#039; marriage (they are legally separated) and their current battle over child visitation rights (Lindsay has three younger siblings) has become so contentious that a New York judge ordered the couple to undergo family therapy.  Long before the latest crash, it was obvious to some who had worked with Lohan that she was too much alone and on her own in the world. Two years ago, when I interviewed Jamie Lee Curtis, who played Lohan&amp;#039;s mother in Freaky Friday and who herself grew up in Hollywood\u2014her mother was Janet Leigh, her father is Tony Curtis\u2014she asked me to pass on a message. &amp;quot;Tell Lindsay I said if she&amp;#039;s ever in trouble and she needs an adult, I&amp;#039;ll be there\u2014no questions asked. Tell her my phone numbers haven&amp;#039;t changed.&amp;quot; ELLE:  Who&amp;#039;s taking care of you? [Munro nods and laughs; she likes this question.] LOHAN: Jenni, my mom, and Leslie [Sloane-Zelnick, Lohan&amp;#039;s publicist]. MUNRO: I try to do my best. When Mom&amp;#039;s not physically here, I try to take care of her. LOHAN: I have really bad insomnia. My whole life. I get nervous at night going to bed, and being awake, alone, really freaks me out. So, I&amp;#039;ll call her and be like, &amp;quot;Jenni, I can&amp;#039;t sleep! I can&amp;#039;t sleep!&amp;quot; And she&amp;#039;s like, &amp;quot;But I have to work for you tomorrow!&amp;quot; The most consistent unconditional love Lohan gets in life has to be from the lens. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s the pain of her childhood that makes her so interesting on-screen,&amp;quot; says casting director Bonnie Timmermann, who also coproduced Georgia Rule. Adds Sivertson, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s impossible to put the camera in a bad place for her.&amp;quot; So why shouldn&amp;#039;t she love it back? We&amp;#039;re riveted by their relationship.  &amp;quot;I have pictures from the shoot!&amp;quot; Lohan says, digging through her Louis Vuitton bag. She pulls out a digital camera decorated with a dangling Courr\u00E8ges charm bought in Tokyo. Nope, not a bad shot in the bunch. Lohan&amp;#039;s sweetly proud of them. &amp;quot;I love doing pictures,&amp;quot; she says, wistfully. &amp;quot;I could do them every day. I could. Just throw me around! Make me whatever you want! Do whatever you want! Make me your muse! I love it.&amp;quot;  ELLE: I hardly recognized you in the Miu Miu ads.  LOHAN: Matt and Marcus shot me for that, and I&amp;#039;m obsessed with them. I love them. I&amp;#039;d die for them. They&amp;#039;re amazing. They&amp;#039;re f--king genius. Gilles [Bensimon, ELLE&amp;#039;s international creative director] and I talked about doing a book together, what my life is like in 24 hours\u2014Marilyn Monroe did a book like this\u201424 hours in Paris or at the Chateau Marmont, where you&amp;#039;re not allowed to sleep and they just keep taking pictures. How interesting is that? ELLE:  You recently bought Marilyn&amp;#039;s apartment in the El Palacio in West Hollywood. Of the old Hollywood stars, is that who you most relate to? LOHAN: Ann-Margret. Marilyn Monroe.  MUNRO: That&amp;#039;s sad, though. LOHAN: Marilyn exudes sex appeal. She was such an innocent sort. It seems like she was a bit lost, but everyone... That was the tragic side of it, obviously. Ann-Margret doesn&amp;#039;t have a tragic side! And Grace Kelly, I love. It&amp;#039;s so hard to be like those people now because the press has just gotten perversely worse and worse and worse. They ignore all the things I stand for and what I&amp;#039;ve done. I just want to be nominated for an award for all the work I&amp;#039;ve done. It&amp;#039;s so funny\u2014people forget that I played two characters in Parent Trap when I was twelve years old.  ELLE: What do you think is the perception of you in the world? LOHAN:  &amp;quot;That poor child!&amp;quot; No... ELLE:  You&amp;#039;re about to turn 21, though. LOHAN:  I&amp;#039;m just a kid! Someone&amp;#039;s gotta take care of me! [Laughs] No, I&amp;#039;m kidding. &amp;quot;Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, wars. This daily diet made sophisticates of them.&amp;quot;\u2014Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust Kate is back. This time she&amp;#039;d like me to take photographs of her with Lohan on her camera and her cell phone. She&amp;#039;s the only one who&amp;#039;s approached the actress during our lunch. All the other diners are nonchalant about Lohan being there\u2014at the Ivy, stars are on the menu. They haven&amp;#039;t even been fazed by the 50 or so paparazzi and rubberneckers hovering close enough to pick food from their plates. As we wait for the check, Lohan scrolls through her BlackBerry, randomly reciting what she&amp;#039;s committed to its memory. LOHAN:  This is a line from All About Eve. &amp;quot;What I go after, I want to go after. I don&amp;#039;t want it to come after me.&amp;quot; This is good; Bette Davis said this: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll admit I&amp;#039;ve had a bad day. But I&amp;#039;m not to be had by the price of a cocktail.&amp;quot; [The actual line is: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll admit I may have seen better days, but I&amp;#039;m still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut.&amp;quot;] This is from Ann-Margret in Kitten With a Whip: &amp;quot;Excuse me if I have a dirty mind, I just change it so often.&amp;quot; This is great: &amp;quot;How come you think you&amp;#039;re such a smoky something, when you&amp;#039;re so nothing but painted blue?&amp;quot; Isn&amp;#039;t that good? [She beams] Katharine Hepburn: &amp;quot;Love me, little lamb, or leave me.&amp;quot; So sweet! ELLE:  What else do you have in there? LOHAN:  Things I wrote from when I was 28 days sober. And I&amp;#039;ve written so many songs on this thing. Here&amp;#039;s a joke: &amp;quot;How do you make a blond laugh on a Saturday? Tell them a joke on a Wednesday.&amp;quot; She leans across the table toward Munro, who got her stripes assisting Christina Aguilera. &amp;quot;Can we tell her the Mercer story?&amp;quot; Lohan asks. &amp;quot;Can we put that on record?&amp;quot; Munro nods, smiling. &amp;quot;Yeah.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;We were in the Mercer Hotel in a small room doing an interview,&amp;quot; Lohan begins. &amp;quot;You tell the rest.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;I was reading a magazine,&amp;quot; Munro says. &amp;quot;And I started laughing. And she says, `Why are you laughing?&amp;#039; And it&amp;#039;s because I had just texted our friends this very thing: &amp;quot;A cab to the Mercer, 20 dollars; a room at the Mercer, 500 dollars; listening to Lindsay Lohan say she&amp;#039;s sober? Priceless.&amp;quot; I confess, I laughed. When I was young, I was partying, too. Like crazy. Only I was tucked away at college. Which actually wouldn&amp;#039;t be a bad place for Lohan right now.  &amp;quot;At age 20 there is a certain wildness that most of us had that&amp;#039;s part of growing up,&amp;quot; Sivertson says. &amp;quot;For her to be doing that under a microscope has got to be painful and embarrassing.&amp;quot; In a MySpace world of kids baring their hearts and souls and everything else, every space is Lohan&amp;#039;s space. But if Robert Downey Jr., a recovered addict who&amp;#039;s served jail time, can make it back from unbankability; if Angelina Jolie, a former heroin-dabbling, bisexual, bloodletting exhibitionist, can morph into an Oscar-winning third-world champion, why couldn&amp;#039;t Lohan turn the travails of her youth around and conquer all? I, for one, am rooting for her. &amp;quot;I was watching Butterfield 8 the other night,&amp;quot; Bonnie Timmermann says. &amp;quot;Here&amp;#039;s Elizabeth Taylor, the most beautiful woman, and I could see Lindsay in that part. I&amp;#039;ve actually made some calls about it. One guy said, `No, she&amp;#039;s too much trouble.&amp;#039; But I want to remake it. I can see Lindsay playing opposite James McAvoy. When I was casting Georgia Rule, I called Robert Altman [who directed A Prairie Home Companion] to ask him about the bad reports. He said, `I&amp;#039;d work with her again\u2014she&amp;#039;s a wonderful actress.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Altman passed away in 2006.  The manager of the Ivy brings the check and, kneeling at the table, asks Lohan if she&amp;#039;d like to sneak out through the back.  &amp;quot;Oh, no,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;If they see me, they&amp;#039;ll trap me in the alley.&amp;quot; The actress dons her aviator sunglasses\u2014&amp;quot;Tom Ford. I got these from the shoot!&amp;quot;\u2014and gets up to leave, stopping short inside the fence while Chaz, her 300-pound bodyguard, sees that her car is ready for a getaway. The flashes sound like the frantic flapping wings of a thousand birds. Lohan is unperturbed. Munro says she&amp;#039;ll set up a screening of I Know Who Killed Me for us the next day. &amp;quot;I might come watch it,&amp;quot; Lohan says.  Chaz returns and takes her arm. As we&amp;#039;re going, she asks, &amp;quot;What are you doing later? You should come out with us tonight.&amp;quot; People in the crowd are elbowing each other, shoving their way around her, shooting, shooting, shooting...and then she&amp;#039;s gone. At noon the next day Munro sent me an e-mail saying the studio wasn&amp;#039;t ready to screen the movie for journalists. I asked what Lohan&amp;#039;s schedule was\u2014when could she do the second interview? Not that afternoon; she was rehearsing scenes with Mac-Laine for Poor Things (a movie for which Lohan&amp;#039;s insurance was purchased before her accident). It was Memorial Day weekend. It might be days before I could pin her down again. I called my editor to say I was flying back to New York early, that I&amp;#039;d do the follow-up over the phone. I got home Saturday night. By the time I woke up Sunday, the Sunset Boulevard smash-up was all over the news. I checked my e-mail, clicking on the first of a string of messages from friends and colleagues all dying to know the same thing.  &amp;quot;Are you still in L.A.?!!&amp;quot; the e-mail read. &amp;quot;Please, please tell me that you were in the car with her when she crashed!&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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