Watch the latest FunnyorDie.com video clip featuring Lindsay Lohan and you’ll think it’s just another lame project from the fading starlet.
Dr. Drew Pinsky would beg to differ.
The “Loveline” host and author of the new book, “The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America,” would find something quite different at play here.
The book describes how the narcissistic mind works, and how narcissists use a variety of methods to deny or deflect attention from their serious emotional problems.
Like Britney Spears defending her shoddy parenting work with the flip comment, “We’re country.”
Or, a fading movie star creating a laugh-free video clip meant to make us forget she’s a deeply troubled young woman who needs help.
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This is funny, people need to lighten up.
Didn’t find it amusing … and, more importantly, this girl needs help. And this kind of PR spin may be cutesy, but it doesn’t do anything to help her emotionally. She’s a train wreck, and she has been for quite some time.
This girls ability to make fun of herself will be her salvation. Personally I think the media takes her way too serious. Obviously more seriously than she takes herself. Obviously not on the track for idol worship by young people. And she is ok with that! I loved it! Still chuckling.
C’mon Christian. Yes, a train wreck. But speaking from a girls perspective, not any more than quite a few that I have known. She just has more money, more exposure, more drama. They lOOOOOVEEEE the drama. She needs to clean up the alcohol and drug abuse — but the reality is is that Lilo is a survivor. She will survive her excess. Because she is a survivor. Like Paris Hilton. Lilo is not Marilyn Monroe, or Judy Garland. I think her doing this is not poking fun at herself — I think she is mocking the media. And her PR person is brilliant.
I don’t see her as a survivor. She’ll have to survive first. She’ll have to prove she’s put the drugs and alcohol away for good. She’ll have to prove her career is back on track – her latest is going straight to TV.
Do pick up The Mirror Effect …. will be fascinated to see your take on it.
I have to agree with Christian. Just because Ms. Lohan can poke fun at herself in a comedy bit doesn’t mean she’s gotten over her demons. Plus, the track record for young Hollywood starlets with major personal issues isn’t encouraging, as a browse through Robert Avrech’s blog Seraphic Secret shows.
I’m beginning to get frustrated with these Funny or Die videos. They’re never funny, yet none of the responsible parties have died. How is that fair?
In regards to Ms. Lohan though, I gotta agree with Mr. Toto here. Making fun of yourself works when in certain circumstances, but not when it is so obviously being used to cover up serious problems. If ten years down the road Lohan has gotten her life back on track then making fun of herself will be a virtue. Until then it is just a painfully unfunny reminder of her problems.
Blackhawk’s comment made me laugh more than Lindsay’s video clip.
I guess calling the site HitorMiss.com wouldn’t be as clever. Accurate, but not clever.
I viewed part of it. Couldn’t finish it, and didn’t see the point.
BTW – When did being a survivor become a decent or desireable outcome? Comments above seem to both stop and start with that despondent and disappointing POV. With all that each of us is given in this life, mere survival ought to be a depressing outcome, or at least a status akin to a temporary setback, signifying that ‘the mark’ has been missed.