Lohan's Bad 'Luck'?
Is Lindsay acting up? Plus, Clooney vs. Crowe, Jessica's ooky dad, and more ...
Feb. 17, 2005
You gotta wonder what misguided exec thought it would be a good idea for Lindsay Lohan, who has a reputation for finding the fun when the sun goes down, to shoot a movie in the non-stop party town that is New Orleans.
The rumor mill has been churning recently with tales of the teen queen's purported late night adventures in the Big Easy, where she's filming the romantic comedy "Just My Luck." Last week, production was shuttered for several days after Lindsay reportedly came down with bad flu.
Now, frustrated crewmembers on the Donald Petrie-directed flick are tattling to the media about the 18-year-old's supposedly slack on-set behavior.
"I've never seen anything like this," one unnamed staffer fumes to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. "She is making our lives a living hell. It's just not professional."
A local actor, who spent two nights working with Lohan on the supposedly tension-filled set, claims she would hole up in a corner while a stand-in rehearsed with her co-stars. When it was time for cameras to roll, he tells the paper, she would wander over and repeatedly blow her lines.
"If I had to learn four lines and had all day to do it -- and was paid millions of dollars to do it -- I think I could do it," he rants. "The whole thing was more like a scene from a movie than a set for a movie: The star throws a fit and someone has to console her and lead her away. That happened twice while I was there."
But Lindsay, who will soon get her very own 6-inch plastic doppelganger courtesy of Mattel, does have her defenders, including ones who aren't on her payroll.
Locals who have bumped into the "Mean Girls" starlet out on the town say she's an "effervescent delight" who always says "please and thank you to service workers," while a Louisiana high school teacher who got up close and personal with Lindsay after winning a radio contest said she seemed just "like a regular girl."
"I thought she was very nice," the educator tells the Slidell Sentry-News of her brief, between-scenes chat with the actress last Friday. "She was busy when we were there, so I didn't expect a lot out of her. But I thought she was very pleasant. She'd been on the set for 13, 14 hours by the time we got there. She's a hard worker."
Of course, no one could blame Lohan for acting out given the ongoing battle being waged by her estranged parents, Michael and Dina. The New York Post reports her recidivist dad, who has been shopping around a reality show titled "Living with the Lohans," decided to confront his soon-to-be ex-wife outside a New York courthouse on Tuesday with a film crew in tow.
An insider tells the paper that Michael "has demonstrated that he's clearly more interested in milking his daughter's success for his own financial remuneration than in being a responsible father or husband ... In fact, the only outreach Michael has made to his family in recent months is an attempt to participate in this ludicrous reality show for which he would be compensated significantly."
