Day 186 — Lohan’s Career Rebirth
Wed, Oct 7, 2009
Apparently, you can drink, drive, get busted, serve jail time and still merit the attention of The New York Times to honor you with ink.
Enter America’s No. 1 bad (stupid) girl Lindsay Lohan in her latest attempt to reinvent herself.
For Lindsay, the world of couture beckons. This is from her point of view, not fashion’s.
Nonetheless, Lindsay is following the advice of career counselors: Do something else if your chosen career is foundering!
She’s now the, get this, anointed artistic adviser to the French label Emanuel Ungaro. If we’re bringing back Lindsay for this, we might as well resurrect the bosomy Latin-American actress Charo and her signature “cuchi cuchi” line.
To me, Lindsay is the trick birthday candle: No matter how many times you blow on her, she won’t flame out.
Seriously, what’s stopping the rest of us from wrapping ourselves in a skin-tight mini and prancing down a runway with anorexic models wearing white shorts and open-breasted jackets showing silver, heart-shaped pasties glistening from underneath the jacket flaps?
Well, we probably haven’t made a Herbie movie, or engaged in bizarre lip pumping! Red punch buggy, no punch backs, I say.
While her effort at couture looks pretty convincing to her PR agent, representatives of the stalwart fashion houses called Lindsay’s appearance on the couture scene as a “train wreck.” I agree.
I mean, really, do you think Lindsay knows the difference between a cowl neckline and an empire waist? I think Lindsay would be much more convincing hawking ankle-monitoring bracelets.
She should stick to DWIs, whining and that bisexual thing. Like, is she or isn’t she? She could have fooled me. And, if she is, what a shame!
If Ungaro ever takes Lindsay’s advice on fashion, I don’t think I’ll be buying any of her clothes. From her stint on the runway, she should know that red shoes are for the bedroom, not the boardroom.
Hi Ann
I am writing from India. Here too, many people have lost jobs. But there is a difference. People in their 50s who have had good jobs are not as desperate as most Americans are. You were earning a six figure salary and despite all your intelligence just 1 year of no job has been disastrous for you. If you had managed to save at least 20% of your salary, you could have easily survived … Anyway, one good thing has happened because you didn’t have money – you started this blog
Regards
Subodh karode
Hi Subodh
Always thrilled to hear of readers from around the world. I agree with you, but I don’t fit in the box of mainstream personal financial advise. I had to recover a child from an autism spectrum disorder, which costs upwards of $60,000 a year over a period of four years. This amount does not include my lost income over those years when I abandoned my writing career to care for him. So, I don’t know how it would have been possible to save 20% of my income, given my unique circumstances. Ann