Pushing the limits is their job - but knowing where to stop is minding their business!
Fame's a mixed bag. You can be one of the most famous people on earth and still not make money out of it (if you're unfortunate enough to be OJ Simpson then it could even drive you broke!). This usually happens when some celebrity has gone too far with pushing the limits. Then they can become an insurance risk, unreliable, or just too much of a pain in the ass to be worth bothering with.deflation & stagnation
The gossip blogosphere is full of celebs have become so overheated that they probably couldn't land a job in the entertainment industry if they stood by the side of the road holding up a cardboard sign reading "will act for food!" Lisa Rinna tried that a few years back when she tried reviving her post Melrose Place career; though the sign read "Honk if you love Lisa". The stunt didn't work out so she got her lips deflated. That sparked some mild, temporary interest in the actress. She's currently trying to decide on her next career move, which will either be revealing something startling about her personal life, or going into reality TV!
when the big picture looks like a jig saw puzzle
Mel Gibson is the current king of radio active celebrities. When he went nuts in the back of that squad car after a night of trolling the bars there was no turning back. Well not after he went Hitler and started divulging his strange crypto-Catholic anti Masonic conspiracy theories about the Jews causing every war in history as a way to prevent Cardinal Siri from ever becoming Pope Gregory the 17th! Seems that the Jews had an agenda to corrupt the mass by getting John 23rd on the Vatican throne. People couldn't see the sense in what Gibson was saying, and most assumed that he'd left his tin foil hat in the microwave too long. So he was done. Oksana Grigorieva was just the cincher!
nuts & gum, together at last
Mel has plenty of company these days, as celebrity images heat up and implode like Japanese nuclear reactors. Tiger Woods got in shit when the world found out that he was more interesting than anyone ever suspected. That cost him a king's ransom in hi powered product endorsements! Michael Richards killed that soft spot everyone had in their hearts for Kramer when he went nuts before a live audience. Jerry Seinfeld is still counting the slot residual earnings over that one; and cutting back to only two Porsche splurges a year. Jerry also has to consider the economy - can't blame Kramer for everything! Sandra Bullock's career went into a stall after the news about her sham marriage broke. That was back at the Oscars. Sandra had won some Ms Congeniality Award. That's something you get for being too talented to be sexy, but too good looking to be a character player. It's an awkward category that Julia Roberts has successfully exploited for a couple of decades. Anyway Bullock bags her Oscar and then gets ready to move into total world domination mode. She plotting her next Barbara Walters interview: what she'll say, how she'll act all faux modest, and how good she's gonna come off. Then the news breaks that her grease monkey husband - Vanilla Gorilla - was into radical politics and porn fetish strippers! After that she had a harder time showing her face in public than Michelle Obama after she touched the Queen!
livin la vida Lohan
The upshot is that every once in a while a celeb gets in shit and then has a hard time working afterwards. The queen of disgraced celebs is probably Lindsay Lohan. She started out a a Disney child star and quickly got a reputation for talent and versatility, even as her parents were getting a rep for being ambitious and difficult. Lindsay then got her self a reputation for substance abuse and criminal behavior. So the work dried up. At least until she could get her act together through rehab or something. That left her paying lawyers fees and rehab bills out of pocket without an income. Meanwhile we kept seeing lots and lots of Lindsay usually through the tabloids or Court TV!
trainwreck in waiting
So the $64 000 question was "did the once promising actress still had a future as anything other than a trainwreck?" Observers were dubious because she had a long track record of screw ups behind her. She was too consistent to be reliable in other words! No one wanted to work with her. For one thing she might OD in the middle of her next project, and leave producers holding the bag - Heath Ledger style. At the very least she might get any project she's involved with into some kind of unwanted scandal through getting accused of something criminal - like stealing from her bosses or co stars. Lindsay always maintains that she doesn't do such stuff, but she also admits to being a magnet for trouble. In a bottom line business that's the same difference. When it's a who you know business that can leave you hard up. No one wants to bet on a loser carrying around a ton of baggage (Lindsay, we should meet!).
fame is when crime doesn't pay anymore
No it's an ill wind that blows no good and Lindsay has found the silver lining in her ill wind (like how I mashed that metaphor?). It seems that there is some one in the entertainment industry (soon to be the Intertainment Industry if current trends continue!) willing to not only give her a break but even stick his neck out and give her another second chance! The guy is film producer Mark Fiore. Fiore doesn't have brain damage or anything - as far as I know - but he is the producer of Gotti Three Generations. For the 50% of the pop born after 1990 John Gotti was a Gambino Mafia boss (he allegedly knocked off Paul Castellano to get that gig, but no one was ever able to prove anything!) known as the Teflon Don for his knack of beating criminal convictions. He also liked $5000 suits and plenty of attention. In fact he was more interested in being a media star than in making money for the organization. He high profile antics brought a lot of heat specifically at him, and eventually brought him down and damaged his organization. It's another cautionary tale: even if crime pays fame might not.
Lindsay finds work despite economy!
Now Mark though Lindsay would be just great in his new mafia pic. Not only is she a fine little actress but she has some real life experience to bring to the role. Besides people might be interested in seeing whether she can pull it off. So if she doesn't screw up this thing might actually work out for everyone involved. So Lindsay got hired for the part of one of Gotti's daughters; maybe the one who went to work for the Star before getting into reality VT. I think she's Victoria.
Lohan's new friend is thrilled in not so many words
Lohan's possible involvement in some kind of actual movie has been kicking around for awhile but now it's picking up steam with confirmation from Fiore himself. MF recently told Radar that he's thrilled with Lohan. Well he didn't actually say thrilled. He was more understated. What he did say was that "She's very professional. People make mistakes. Look at other people in Hollywood." So this sounds promising. Further more the honey moon shows no signs of cooling off, since Fiore went onto say that he wanted Lohan to do another project for him, in addition to Gotti!
the future is a violent torpedo of truth, or maybe only a curve ball
This means that Lohan could be on the verge of some kind of long awaited career comeback! She's not only got a job, but the possibility of a working relationship with a producer. These working relationships are the basis of successful long term careers; like Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, Martin Scorsese and Robert Deniro, not to mention Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott! Up until about a year or so ago you could've added Megan Fox and Michael Bay to that all star list, but the recoil on Fox's hi caliber mouth finally deep sixed that! This means that to pass go and collect her $200 Lindsay just has to avoid any more colourful screw ups. Oh yeah and she also has to get past the Grand Jury! Her lawyers are currently asking the state what kind of jail time they might be thinking about - just in case of a worst case scenario! Should things turn sour for her, again, then there's always room on Charlie Sheen's Violent Torpedoes of Truth tour. I hear that he's desperate for a mascot ever since "dog napping terrorist" Denise Richards took her pug back!
