LiLo
(is going to have to lie low….for a while)

Like many others of the Hollywood celebrity bad boys and girls crowd (most with only marginal claims to fame), Lindsey Lohan has discovered that there are limits to –bad – behavior and diva attitudes. Sooner or later those limits are bound to catch up to them.

In this instance a judge has finally conclude that a bit of enforced time out – 120 days in the pokey- might just do what rehab and similar processes haven’t been able to do. LiLo is going to have to lie low….for a while. Her contemptuous and whining reaction to such a sentence, how it’s “ridiculous” and how it’s a case of a prosecutor’s “witch hunt” against her, just to generate publicity from a high profile case, clearly shows how much her sense of reality about herself has been depleted. A condition which seems to afflict so many denizens of Hollywood’s GlamLand. .

I know little about this particular young woman’s talents as a performing artist. Obviously she has displayed enough of them to have made a name for herself, and acquired a fair amount of financial returns from them as well. So it is a sad thing to see someone wasting such talents in such self-destructive ways, just because celebrity and money seems to give them a misplaced sense of self-importance.

My late sainted grandmother once explained that reality to me, while chewing me out in her best drill-sergeant style of admonition (after one of my particularly un-cool teenage escapades, narrowly, avoided ending up with a similar fate like LiLo’s): “Ok, young man, you can act like a dumb-ass fool now and then, and folks will say….it’s all part of growing up. But if you continue to act that way time after time, folks will then look at you and say….that’s not just a dumb-ass fool…. it’s a no-class dumb-ass fool….and we don’t abide by any no-class dumb-ass fools in this family…. understood!”

Let’s hope these 120 days will restore some sense of reality to LiLo’s view of herself, and perhaps this quote from a little know book of verse by Stephen Crane might guide her future behavior:

“A man said to the Universe-
Sir, I exist ! –
However, replied the Universe,
That fact, does not create in me
A sense of obligation.”

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