PLEASURE WORLD

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Lindsay Lohan had a memorably checkered Big Apple upbringing, which included surviving her combative parents Michael and Dina, and saving her sister Dakota’s life after a drowning accident. At age 3, when most kids would be content with TV and nap time, she started modeling and caught on with companies like Calvin Klein and Pizza Hut, as well as a featured role opposite the one and only Bill Cosby in a Jell-O commercial.

Following a year-long acting stint on the daytime soap Another World, Lindsay Lohan went all-out at her very first professional audition and walked away with the lead roles of twin sisters, Hallie Parker and Annie James, for the 1998 Disney remake of The Parent Trap.

Following her first successful venture with Disney, the studio signed her up to a multi-picture deal, and Lindsay Lohan joined Jamie Lee Curtis for another remake, 2003’s mind-swapping comedy, Freaky Friday. The film quickly became the biggest hit of the young actress’s career, and in 2004, she would taste similar success with Mean Girls playing the new face at a clique-heavy Illinois high school. Not only would the film make her an original tween queen — well before Miley Cyrus would capture the crown — but the comedy would also make stars out of Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried.

Lindsay Lohan releases speak and stars in a prairie home companion

The success of Mean Girls across different demographics made Lindsay Lohan the new flavor of the month for all ages. She became the youngest host in the history of the MTV Movie Awards and joined her Mean Girls screenwriter — the pre-Sarah Palin and 30 Rock Tina Fey — for multiple appearances on Saturday Night Live. By the end of 2004, Lindsay Lohan furthered her pop culture web with the release of her platinum album, Speak, which contained a track called “Rumors” that dealt with her frustration with the paparazzi.

As Lindsay Lohan’s star quickly rose, her once drama-free reputation began to crack at the seams. Whispers of late-night partying, drug and alcohol abuse, and missing underwear were all the rage in tabloid coverage of her, as were snapshots of her with bar-hopping pals such as Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.

While she still found time to star in another Disney remake, Herbie: Fully Loaded and A Prairie Home Companion for director Robert Altman, Lindsay Lohan’s own tendency for getting loaded took a toll on her life and made her an insurance risk on film sets. Various stints in rehab came next and career low points came in the form of separate 2007 arrests for drinking under the influence. Before celebs in rehab became a reality television institution, Lindsay Lohan checked in for various rehab stints in an effort to recover.

Lindsay Lohan stars in machete and inferno

A series of comebacks were in the works for Lindsay Lohan in 2008 and 2009, but neither one gave her career a much-needed reboot. A recurring guest appearance on Ugly Betty was allegedly scaled back due to on-set disruptions, while her high-profile gig a year later as Emanuel Ungaro’s new artistic adviser ended with a thud when the introduction of her first collection was considered to be a failure. It didn’t help that additional legal hearings in the aftermath of her previous DUI arrests were still part of her day-to-day celebrity life.

Just when it seemed like Lindsay Lohan couldn’t catch a career break, she got two of them. First, director Robert Rodriguez cast her in the Grindhouse-ish revenge drama, Machete. As one piece of an inspired cast that included Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Rose McGowan, and Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan created her own share of advance buzz in the film’s trailer with the lasting image of wearing a nun costume and firing a gun. In addition to this project, she signed on for the lead role of one Linda Lovelace in Inferno, a sure-to-be gritty drama that studies the challenging life of the porn star who ruled the ‘70s thanks to Deep Throat. Will it be just the role to bring credibility back to the career of Lindsay Lohan? Audiences will be able to make up their own minds when the film is released in 2011.

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