The Shan Speaks: Notes from the Small but Wise

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

About Lindsay But NOT REALLY ABOUT HER BECAUSE GIVE THAT GIRL A BREAK

She's a fucked up 20-something. I wish her all the best in her recovery. Trying to get sober under that kind of spotlight surrounded by showbiz diks and bitches, shit. I can't fathom talking to my publicist about the 'official statement' I'm expected to make to Access Hollywood while checking into rehab. Perez Hilton et al have a lot to say but if they knew any better they'd shut up and let that girl try to get better.

INTERIOR. BRITNEY SPEARS LIVING ROOM. BRITNEY sits in front of TV, texting like a hurricane.

The TV television V.O. in background PAT O'BRIEN'S unmistakable tenor: "...not 48 hours after a DUI, hit and run incident, another sorry stumble for Lindsay Lohan..."

BRITNEY (to herself): Whew! Party on, Lindsay. Outta my business into yours. Hot spotlight, ain't it?

INTERIOR. ACCESS HOLLYWOOD STUDIO.

OFF CAMERA V.O.: And we're out. Back in 3 minutes, Pat.

O'BRIEN: Got it. (to self) Party on, Lindsay. Been there. Drank that.

EXTERIOR. LOHAN'S BLACK MERCEDES pulls up to PROMOSISES. PAPARAZI everywhere. Lights. Cameras.

INTERIOR. INSIDE LOHAN'S CAR. LINDSAY sits in passenger seat, sunglasses askew.

LOHAN: (Sung.Garbled.)They try to make me go to rehab I say NO, NO, NO.

Lastly, for those who read about the "useable amount" of cocaine found in her cracked up car wondering whqat in hell is meant by 'useable amount' lend The Shan an ear.

The newspaper editor knows it to be a bullshit term made up by Team Lohan.

Team Lohan is terrified to find out how much Escobar Love in Dust was there, so they firmly believe that useable amount is just that: we don't have a clue.

The police on the scene know that it's not worth stealing to sell later as an ancillary dontation to their retirement fund.

In reality, the casual observer, the layperson getting 25 Cents worth of Tough News in THE POST, assumes that a useable amount might be a couple of Splenda packets worth of blow. They'd probably need to look at it then determine whether or not it's jail-worthy.

To the dealer, a useable amount means at least the gram equivalent of $50.

The 'weekender' or 'day player' considers a few lines in the bathroom QUICKMYTURN a useable amount. And this useable amount is so not a big deal, whatever!

For a cokehead/addict/expert, a usable amount is a single microscopic grain of powder you nervously rub on your gums thinking, "Oh yeah...yeah that's good. That's the stuff." This same person simultaneously fantasizes it's a mound like what Pacino shoved his face in a la SCARFACE. Never too little. Never enough.

I only know all this b/c I read a lot.

posted by Shannon E. Ennis at Tuesday, May 29, 2007

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