recovery vs discovery
Lindsay Lohan has been attracting a lot of attention with her high spirited life style. She's not only captured the imagination of the public and the tabloids, but even become a person of interest to notable quacks like Dr Drew Pinsky. Quack sounds a little harsh to say about a guy who's very harsh, but when you publicly state that you'd plant drugs on some one to get thenm arrested, in order to further your personal agenda for their recovery; then you're quacking like a duck.
Both TV Docs, only one's any good
Well fortunately there are some cooler wiser heads out there. One comes in the form of American Entertainment's Grand Old Man, and a Mark Twain medal winner - Bill Cosby. Now Bill and Pinksy have some thing in common: they've both played doctors on TV. One bog difference between the 2 TV Drs. is that when asked about the Lindsay Lohan situation, Bill Cosby is the first one to actually make sense. Here's what he had to say by way of MSNBC:
Tamer by taser: "ECT has an established history as a valid medical treatment!"
Now you can't argue with that. Well you can but for one thing there's very little to argue with in the statement. For one thing he's not plotting radical Dr Drew style interventions "Now you hold the gunny sack and get ready to throw it over Lindsay's head after I taser her silly! Then it's off to our little rehab show of horrors where everyone gets what they signed on for - publicity!"
fatal prescriptions
For another The Cos makes a valid point: Lindsay ain't the only partier in Follywood, and is not even the most extreme. She's merely the most public. While her ups and downs were well documented it was the apparently stable types like Heath Ledger who surprised us by cashing in their chips with prescription medications. Now Lindsay is backed into a corner and has only the prescription meds to fall back on. You know, the kind that killed Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Jackson, Cory Haim, Britteny Murphy, etc. Well never know how many celebrity close call OD's were never found out about - but Mischa Barton blindsided many. Most of these people passed while professional meddlers were pulling their hair and demanding "what's to be done about Lindsay Lohan?"
a very simple 3 step plan
Cosby makes a good point. Problem No 1 is the constant scrutiny which has made the young actresses life unlivable - but kept sites like this in material. No 2 is get the whole issue in proportion. Why focus on Lindsay when there are a dozen celebrities out there who are easily worse./? Is Lindsay Lohan really that much more interesting than the competition? Probably. No 3 the young woman needs some space and some support in getting it together, and not constant intrusions and interventions in her life. If this is Dr Huxtable's prescription, I like it alot better than Pinsky's (I'd have used the term doctor for Drew, but you know...) "Frame her up better than the Mona Lisa" tactics. The problem with the Dr Drews of the world is that even when the operations are successful, the patients might still die.
Speaking of giving young talent a boost the Wondertrash blog pick of the day goes to another Torontonian who authors "A Tale of Toronto". Her name is Aliana Iharosi, and you can find her by hitting the linked banner below. Tell her Wondertrash sent ya. That won't mean anything to her, but it's good to get some hype when possible.
With summer almost upon us, and the Mercury rising with a vengeance, here's a little reminder from Wondertrash to keep cool, but stay hot!
got it made in the shades!
Going blonde helps - reflects more light while black absorbs the heat! I hope that pseudo scientific explanation comes in handy!
