Elisberg Industries
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Products
    • Books
    • Movies
  • About Elisberg Industries
    • Our Corporate Board
    • Information Overstock
    • Elisberg Industries Entertainment Information
    • Elisberg Statistical Center of American Research
    • Consultancy Service
  • Contact
    • How to Find Us
  • Kudos
  • Good Things to Know
    • The BOB Page
    • Sites You Might Actually Like
Decent Quality Since 1847

The Loh-Down

6/2/2013

0 Comments

 
On Friday, Michael Lohan, the oft-convicted father of Lindsay, did a radio interview in which, among other things, he blamed the failings of his daughter's acting career on the circus-like involvement she'd had with a DJ, Samantha Ronson. 

(Why he was doing an interview in the first place with a scandal-mongering Internet website, is another question all together, but we'll let that pass)

"Lindsay was in a pretty okay place at the time until she got involved with Samantha," he said, later suggesting that "People use Lindsay like that."

(It's worth noting that at another point in the interview, he also said -- "Samantha got Lindsay at a very vulnerable time in her life when her mom and dad were going through a divorce. Lindsay started partying and drinking. She didn't know where to go. And Samantha got her when she was down."  Color me bewildered, but that doesn't sound like "a pretty okay place," but, hey, that's just me.  To me, that sounds like a young girl whose family life is spiraling towards disaster without any supervision or support to turn to.)

I mention all this because I actually crossed paths with the Family Lohan on a film project over a decade ago.  Let's just politely say that the experience was not positive.

("Not positive" will be defined herein as "hellishly life-changing.)

I never spoke with Lindsay or her mother., though a friend who was an intermediary said that in all his dealings with the then-young girl were always wonderful and positive, and he thought Lindsay was a joy.  I did speak once with Michael Lohan.  My dealings with him were less than wonderful and a joy.  Eventually, things broke off .  This, it must be noted, was all many years before the Lohan Circus with Samantha Ronson. 

After the project broke off, some years passed, and Michael Lohan and his wife separated.   Later, mother and daughter came back to me with interest again in the project.  I turned that down and went elsewhere with the script.  One of the several reasons I said at the time was that I didn't want to even risk having Michael Lohan involved in any way, even though he wasn't part of the new contact in the slightest.  And this, too, it's important to make clear, was all years before the Lohan Circus, as well.

That seemed a good decision at the time, and since.  I later discovered that some things that had been done in the interviewing years, which I was completely unaware of at the time and would never have allowed, were...well, not positive.  (See above.)

It's clear that the Lohan Circus period in her life was problematic for her career, and it certainly appears that the DJ was a bad influence.  But it had been even more clear to me, even from my diffused distance, that many years before, the first seeds that led to all that had not only been deeply planted, but had already sprouted a number of little trees.  This was a very young girl, quite sweet and talented, who was thrust into the public eye when just a child, and was being used and pulled in a lot of dysfunctional directions.

And now, Michael Lohan, a divorced, convicted felon, is blaming all his child's career problems on someone else who was just one of many culminations of a life long-since spinning out of control. 

A life tends not to just, all of a sudden, go into a tailspin and whirl out of control.  Usually, it's been heading downhill into the twisting, roller-coaster path long before it hits a big hair-pin curve.


0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    Picture
    Elisberg Industries gets a commission if you click here before shopping on Amazon.
    Picture
    Follow @relisberg

    Author

    Robert J. Elisberg is a political commentator, screenwriter, novelist, tech writer and also some other things that I just tend to keep forgetting. 

    Elisberg is a two-time recipient of the Lucille Ball Award for comedy screenwriting. He's written for film, TV, the stage, and two best-selling novels, is a regular columnist for the Writers Guild of America and was for
    the Huffington Post.  Among his other writing, he has a long-time column on technology (which he sometimes understands), and co-wrote a book on world travel.  As a lyricist, he is a member of ASCAP, and has contributed to numerous publications.



    Picture
           Feedspot Badge of Honor

    Archives

    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013

    Categories

    All
    Animals
    Audio
    Audio Land
    Books
    Business
    Chicago
    Consumer Product
    Education
    Email Interview
    Entertainment
    Environment
    Fine Art
    Food
    From The Management
    Health
    History
    Huffery
    Humor
    International
    Internet
    Journalism
    Law
    Los Angeles
    Media
    Morning News Round Up
    Movies
    Music
    Musical
    Personal
    Photograph
    Piano Puzzler
    Politics
    Popular Culture
    Profiles
    Quote Of The Day
    Radio
    Religion
    Restaurants
    Science
    Sports
    Technology
    Tech Tip
    Theater
    The Writers Workbench
    Tidbits
    Travel
    Tv
    Twitter
    Video
    Videology
    Well Worth Reading
    Words-o-wisdom
    Writing

    RSS Feed

© Copyright Robert J. Elisberg 2023
Contact Us    About EI    Chicago Cubs
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Products
    • Books
    • Movies
  • About Elisberg Industries
    • Our Corporate Board
    • Information Overstock
    • Elisberg Industries Entertainment Information
    • Elisberg Statistical Center of American Research
    • Consultancy Service
  • Contact
    • How to Find Us
  • Kudos
  • Good Things to Know
    • The BOB Page
    • Sites You Might Actually Like