Links re: This Nonsense
I'm not talking about MY LINDSAY! My Lindsay would not be in detox - she would be in decomp for acting like such a fool.
How the hell are you in rehab, facing charges for DUI, not your first such incident, and you don't turn 21 until July 2007? And all of your peers are "In The Same Gang": the incredibly stupid Paris Hilton and the incredibly slow Nicole Richie. Each are making public excuses for themselves and each other, as if some virus was responsible for their bad behavior and poor lifestyle choices.
I've read articles that say that money and fame are the reasons for the women's problems with substance abuse and crime. NOOOOOOO! The LACK of money causes people to do desperate and hopeless things. Like robbery, burglary, drug dealing, and even murder.
The problem with Lindsay (not MY Lindsay!), Paris, and Nicole is THEIR PARENTS! I'm not going to allow anyone to say that Lindsay is in rehab and Nicole is looking at doing time because their parents got a divorce. Paris' parents are still married and her skinny ass is about to be locked up in a few days also.
So what is the problem here? It's being raised with no self-respect and no respect of others. It's parents who use cars, trips, and trinkets to babysit for their kids while the parents sun in San Tropez. Why didn't ANY of these girls go to college? Did they even finish high school? Other than Lohan, who has a nice acting portfolio, the other two are famous by omission - the media omitted waiting until Hilton and Richie did something worth reporting about. Being in rehab several times before age 18 or making a porn tape when you don't even have a picture of your graduation day is not "a body of work". These are not even "bodies AT work" - these women are just bums.
Yet society likes to turn its back on minority kids growing up in the inner city, insisting that they don't have to sell drugs to be successful. Hey, Spanky, they are not doing it to be successful - they are doing it to EAT! Lohan didn't have to act to be successful - she could have gone to medical school. Richie didn't have to use heroin - she could have aligned herself with her biological father's family and become a world class percussionist like her real Auntie, Sheila "E" Escovedo.
Where the hell was Brenda Richie? Lunching wth the Ladies at L'Orangerie? My kid's father performed with Lionel Richie and the Commodores when both groups were bringin' the funk in the 70s. I was a "Band Wife" traveling on the road with my husband, from city to city, Holiday Inn to Holiday Inn, just like Brenda Richie, often in the same convoy. But what happened? Lionel pulled ahead of the pack as an award-winning songwriter and performer. The Richies moved to Bel-Air while the McCalls moved to Vallejo, Brenda continued to shop at Neiman-Marcus and Saks while Linda Lou switched to Macy's and Mervyns. We both had philandering husbands. Brenda was unable to conceive so she adopted Nicole while I painfully shit out three children.
Now this is the point where "Loose Logic" shows that something changed. Louis was on the road most of the year, just like Lionel. But Linda Lou kept her foot in her daughter's ass. When I said be home at a certain time, MY Lindsay was in the house. I mandated no make-up or dating until age 16. When MY Lindsay reached the age when young girls leave the house dressed modestly but show up in first period with blue eye shadow, a baby-Tee, and her ass hanging out of her shorts, The Loose One started showing up at the school, unannounced, peeking at MY Lindsay through that little window in the classroom door. I bought her sanitary napkins and I counted them each month - that box better be empty! No doors could be locked in my house and MY Lindsay better not pass me twice with oversized clothes on. I needed to have unfettered access to her navel at all times! She might have managed to get pregnant in spite of my best efforts but she sure as hell was not going to surprise me with the news by being charged with gross negligent homicide after giving birth alone in her closet.
No learners permit until there was a serious need (and that came about when I got tired of driving her everywhere!) No car until she showed me something, like completing two years of college. She and her brother had one year to act out after their father's murder, then I expected them to pull themselves together and make him proud. I made sure that they had all of the professional counseling that they needed and I gave them my undivided attention 24/7 - 365. That meant that I didn't just wait for them to come to me if they felt depressed or they missed their Dad. I watched them like a she-bear with a new litter of cubs for any sign of psychological stressors or change - social isolation, sleeping too much, hiding in their bedrooms, new and strange friends, joining the Aryan Nation - ANYTHING! When my normally ebullient and personable son was about 17, he started being real quiet and never wanted to talk. I called my good girlfriend, Jennifer, who just happened to be a top clinical psychologist and asked her to talk to him. She then expressed concern that he might be suffering from mild depression - three years after never expressing any major reaction to losing his beloved Dad. She called her good girlfriend who just happened to be a psychiatrist and got us an appointment for a consultation that same day. The appointment was for 5:30 pm, on the day before Thanksgiving, in an icy rainstorm, in bumper to bumper traffic, in another county. But I threw my child in the car, made the trip, got the diagnosis, and followed the doctor's instructions. He was back to his old self 2 weeks later, without benefit of Paxil or Luvox. Just lotsa love and heavy dosages of LuMom!
The media want to make these silly girl's ridiculous actions front page news while what going on in Darfur is buried without fanfare just like the genocide victims there. Their parents will take no responsibility for why their kids are fucked up. Stints at Promises and other big-ticket rehab facilities are no replacement for nurturing, love, discipline, and instilling positive values before kindergarten. No one learned from River Phoenix's death - they just made him some kind of James Dean, when James Dean wasn't all that! Paris Hilton's mother is a disgrace as a parent. Read her comments about Paris' sentence in USA Today. And that petition to the Governor asking for clemency is indicative of how delusional rich people are.
Hollywood has always been, well, Hollywood. It began as a place of big money, marginal talent, and media cover-ups and/or sensationalism. But they always get the priority mixed up. The things which are sensationalized need to be covered OVER and the cover-ups need to be made public. I hope that all three of these women (and their other youthful counterparts) do every single day of their sentences. No time off for good behavior because "good behavior" for them is no drugs, no alcohol, no driving with suspended licenses, no partying, no shopping, no tanning - everything that you can't get in jail anyway. No protective custody. They need to be in general population with the very people that Paris and Nicole claim not to know about on "The Simple Life" - people who shot at WalMart, people who can't waste money dressing tiny pet dogs costing $2 grand in designer "doggywear" because they can't even afford a decent place to live, people who grew up surrounded by hopelessness rather than hotels with their names on them, people who sell drugs to survive but don't drive a $500,000 Benz while drugged.