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Feb. 18, 2008
The good news? Lindsay Lohan is finding plenty to do during her current
state of unemployment. The bad news? Instead of, say, taking a college class or
going on that goodwill trip to Africa she's been talking about for the last two
years, she seems to be spending her big-screen downtime clubbing, flirting and
ditching her duds to mimic the skin-heavy final photo shoot of Marilyn Monroe.
Let's start with the impulse-driven starlet's decision to go nude for New
York magazine by recreating several of the iconic "Last Sitting" images captured
of the seminal sex goddess just six weeks before her death in August 1962 at the
age of 36.
Veteran photographer Bert Stern, who was also behind the camera for the
original Marilyn shots, went back to the in-the-buff blond bombshell well to
snap LiLo, whose topless poses appear to show that yes, they're real, and yes,
they're spectacular. (Less spectacular: the world-weariness etched on her face
and the all-around unflattering look to the shots.)
"I didn't have to put much thought into it. I mean, Bert Stern? Doing a
Marilyn shoot? When is that ever going to come up?" she marvels of striking a
pose on Feb. 5 in Los Angeles. "It's really an honor."
It's also a project that's sure to invite many "lost little girl" parallels,
something Lohan, with typical head-smacking hubris, is quick to brush off.
She describes Marilyn's death as "tragic," before observing, "You know, it's
also tragic what just recently happened to someone else."
Lindsay, 21, nods when asked if she's referring to Heath Ledger, who she was briefly linked to in the months
before his death.
"They are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone,"
declares the repeatedly rehabbed, DUI-busted actress, who remains
fate-temptingly confident that her destiny will be different. "I'm not them ...
I sure as hell wouldn't let it happen to me."
As for getting nekkid, Lohan says she had no qualms about exposing her many
freckles in a bid to reproduce the Jello-on-springs-style sultriness and aching
vulnerability of Monroe.
"I was comfortable with it," she says, before fessing up to doing 250
crunches the night before the shoot.
Lindsay admits to being somewhat obsessed with the candle-in-the-wind-living
pinup, which has translated into buying an apartment where she once lived and
collecting "a lot of Marilyn stuff," including a large painting she received as
a Christmas gift.
"It's eerie because it's this picture of her, and it's kind of cartoony," she
says of the portrait, "and there's a big bottle of pills next to her, and
they've fallen over."
And while some might argue that ditching her duds and inviting comparisons to
the quintessential Hollywood cautionary tale is a mite desperate on Lohan's
part, she appears to view it as an act of self-possession.
"Here is a woman who is giving herself to the public. She's saying, 'Look,
you've taken a lot from me, so why don't I give it to you myself,'" Linds posits
of the Marilyn pics. (Anyone else think someone told her this? Must just be us.)
"She's taking control back."
If only Lohan could adopt that same authoritative attitude when it comes to
her own once-again overly active social life.
The New York Daily News says it spied her bouncing between Adrian Grenier and Leonardo DiCaprio during a night out at a Los
Angeles hot spot last Tuesday.
She reportedly began by shaking her moneymaker on the dance floor with the
scruffy "Entourage" star before he was given the hook by his date.
Then, says the paper, Lindsay sidled up to DiCaprio, who was hanging at a
table with pals Kevin Connolly and Lukas Haas.
"She was very flirty with Leo," maintains the mole. "But he wasn't saying
much to her."
Both actors called it a night around 2 a.m., with Lohan, whom the paper
claims was seen slipping off the wagon with vodka and champagne, staying behind
with some galpals.
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