Over Marilyn's Dead Body: Lindsay Lohan Cheapens Icon
Above is a photo of Lindsay Lohan's best Marilyn Monroe impression for a shoot she did for New York Magazine. The shoot, was a tribute to the famous last professional photos taken of Monroe six weeks before her death in 1962 by photographer Bert Stern.
Maybe it's the pose, the tat, or the weathered, but not necessarily worn look on Lindsay, but these photos made me feel kind of nauseous. I can't believe Bert would agree to such a thing.
Generally speaking, I try to not give Lindsay Lohan too hard of a time. She's young (21), her parents are total farking deadbeats (especially her pimp-whore of a mother), she has addictions, she's surrounded by users, the list goes on. But I draw the line at her defiling the memory of Marilyn Monroe. Some icons deserve more reverence than others, and as far as I am concern, Marilyn Monroe deserves to never have the dishonor of being mimicked, and certainly not by the likes of someone as young and immature as Lindsay Lohan.
A person would have had to have lived a few more years, survived a few more broken hearts and grown into what I like to call an "adult" in order to capture not only the inimitable outer beauty of Marilyn Monroe, but also her vulnerable, unique and ethereal inner beauty as well. Lindsay Lohan, however talented she may be, just doesn't cut the mustard. Plus it doesn't help that we've become used to seeing Lindsay is such dignified poses such as this one below, so that it makes it hard to transition to the top photo.
