Saturday
06Sep2008
Lindsay Lohan Turns Down $700,000 'Playboy' Offer
Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 8:13PM 
I remember it like it was, oh, six months ago:
Lindsay
Lohan posing nude in front of and behind see-thru silks to recreate a
famous Marilyn Monroe pictorial for New York Magazine. It does not appear that
Lindsay will follow Marilyn to the pages of another magazine.
The troubled actress and singer has turned down an offer
from
Playboy in the area of $700,000. Think of all
the rehab that money could buy!
"If there's
nudity, then the answer's no ... She's not going down the [New York] magazine
road again," Lohan's rep told Playboy. It was to be an eight-page topless spread
in conjunction with the magazine's 55th anniversary.
I suppose you
can take the position that Lindsay's being classy, but since she's already posed
naked, I hardly see the difference. What this really means, though, is some
other young starlet will take the offer (probably for significantly less money),
and they'll get all the press and the possible momentum that could come from the
cover. Or, option B, we'll be forced to look at Pam Anderson's distressed funbags again.
Please, somebody, take the magazine up on its offer.
Charlize Theron and Drew Barrymore stand out as
actresses who have actually leveraged themselves into better things following a
Playboy layout. Conversely, Debbie Gibson and Tiffany, all the more reason the
former teen star shouldn't wait another 15 years to make that decision. Plus,
it's not like it could hurt her reputation.
I'm not condoning every actress in Hollywood taking off
their clothes for a magazine, but if she's already seen a positive benefit from
doing it once, I guess passing it up now is kind of a gray area to me. It's not
like Larry Flynt called.
But hey, good luck with that movie about the fake
pregnancy.
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