Back when I first heard that Lindsay Lohan would be posing nude for Playboy, I was sad. It seemed a desperate act for a once-promising young star, a final appeal for fame from someone with no other options. It seemed this could be Lohan’s last hurrah, the last time her name would grace a magazine cover (at least, until some sort of tragedy struck). But now, just one day after her Playboy cover leaked on the Web, rocketing Lohan to the top of Internet searches, I’m realizing this could hardly be the end for Lindsay Lohan. This, in fact, could launch the beginning of an entirely new career for the Mean Girls actress.

Get your mind out of the gutter. I’m not referring to that kind of career. No, instead, Lohan could use this opportunity to transform from good-girl-gone-bad to bad-girl-gone-entertaining. In this day and age — when audiences can’t get enough of booze-fueled disastrous antics of the Jersey Shore cast — it’s not unthinkable that Lohan could carve out a fruitful career for herself as a professional train wreck.

Let me explain: I spent years hoping for a Lohan comeback, waiting for her to emerge from her legal and substance-abuse troubles and land an acclaimed role — and respect — via an indie film, or a notable director’s passion project. But, following theft allegations, several arrests, and her inability to hold onto a role (hello Inferno!), it seems less and less likely that we’ll ever see her reemerge as an in-demand, A-list movie star. She still could, however, reemerge as an in-demand, D-list star. If the past 10 years of television has proven anything, it’s that Americans love train wrecks as much as they love their freedom and Baconnaise. It’s why The Osbournes revolutionized television. It’s why The Bachelor is entering its 16th season. It’s why Paris Hilton was a tabloid cover girl before she did anything at all. It’s why Courtney Stodden is a thing that actually exists and… oh god, why do I care about her?! Playboy might seem like the nail in the coffin for Lohan’s career, but it could just be the directional change Lohan needs for audiences to accept her not as a sad burnout, but as a professional train wreck.

And, as we’ve seen with the Kardashians, “professional train wreck” is a career in Hollywood. Professional train wrecks star in reality shows. Professional train wrecks make cameos in terrible movies. Professional train wrecks host TV shows on tiny cable networks. And plenty of celebrities before Lohan have used Playboy to start that very type of career: After posing in the magazine, Shannen Doherty got a genius gig as the host of Scare Tactics, appeared on Dancing With the Stars, and starred in her own reality show, Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty; Denise Richards proved to be chuckle-worthy on Denise Richards Colon It’s Complicated; Debbie Gibson and Tiffany snagged steady paychecks starring in Syfy movies like Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus and Mega Piranha; and Pamela Anderson, the woman who paved the way for professional train wrecks everywhere, starred in the campy V.I.P., cameo-ed in Scary Movie 3, and even inspired an animated series, Stripperella.

Of course, it’s up to Lohan to make this type of career a plausible one. And it requires a personality trait that the actress could very well lack: Self-awareness. (After all, Lohan was still talking about her Oscars future this past April on Leno.) Ozzy Osbourne, Paris Hilton, Denise Richards, Pamela Anderson, and (I hope) Courtney Stodden are all mildly entertaining because they’re in on the joke. They understand that they’re viewed as disasters, and do everything in their power to give America the train-wreck entertainment they clamor for. Take away that self-awareness, and you have Anna Nicole Smith, another Playboy cover girl whose train-wreck life turned fatal.

But I hold high hopes that Lohan is savvy enough to follow the right path. And, more importantly, she continues to be a fascinating figure to audiences — love her or hate her, at least you feel something for her. We might be seeing more than we ever have of Lohan in Playboy, but should she decide to be just as revealing about her personal life — with a sense of humor about her image in tow — we might just start laughing with her, instead of at her. And that would be kind of fetch, wouldn’t it?

Pitbull and Lindsay Lohan may currently be at odds over the lyrics of “Give Me Everything,” but the rapper has extended an olive branch to the oft-troubled actress … in the form of an invitation to this Sunday’s Video Music Awards.

That’s what Mr. 305 said in a statement posted Thursday (August 25) on his Planet Pit website, in which he addressed the lawsuit Lohan filed last week that alleges the lyrics of his hit — in particular, the line “I got it locked up like Lindsay Lohan” — are “destined to do irreparable harm” to the actress’ career. Pit wants it known that he hopes the two sides can hash out their differences at the VMAs.

“We’ll be performing ['Give Me Everything] at the VMAs, and, as a matter of fact, I’d like to send out an invitation to Lindsay Lohan,” Pitbull said. “Hopefully she can come with me to the VMAs, and we can figure this out.”

Pitbull also said he was “very surprised” when he first learned of the lawsuit, especially since he considers “Give Me Everything” — and his mention of Lohan — to be positive.

“It was very ironic, to be honest with you. At first I read it and I was like, ‘Nah, this has got to be a joke,’ [but] come to find out it’s very realistic,” he said. “Me being someone who supports Lindsay Lohan’s career, where I’ve seen her go through everything she’s gone through, and everything that has to do with this record is so positive — you see the way I start off the record, where I say, ‘I took my life from negative to positive/ I just want y’all to know that’ — when I mention Lindsay Lohan in the record, it was really a positive message.

“[The lyric] is ‘Hustlers move in silence, so I’m tip-toeing/ So keep blowing, got it locked up like Lindsay Lohan,’ ” Pitbull continued. “When I say I got it locked up, if you’re from the neighborhood, when they say, ‘You got it locked up’ that means you run that area.”

And as far as Lohan’s claims that the song has caused her — and her career — irreparable harm, Pitbull said that he never intended to hurt anybody … quite the opposite, in fact.

“In no way, shape or form would I want to bring that on anybody. I didn’t look to defame, degrade or hurt someone’s career,” he said. “For me, mentioning it on a #1 record around the world, I thought it would be helping someone’s career, and keeping them relevant. We mention people’s names all the time; when it comes to rapping, it’s always about double meanings and metaphors and how you flip certain things.”

Pitbull added that he’s not sure what the next step in the legal process would be (“That has to come with the attorneys,” he said). But who knows? Perhaps things will be patched up after Sunday’s VMAs.

“It shows that success comes with a whole lot,” Pit said. “And I always say, as hard as you work to succeed in this music business, there’s four or five people working harder to take it all away from you.”

The 28th annual MTV Video Music Awards will air live Sunday, August 28, from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles at 9 p.m. ET/PT, following the Selena Gomez-hosted pre-show at 8. See the list of nominees, revisit last year’s highlights and vote for Best New Artist by visiting VMA.MTV.com.

But now, Lindsay’s name has been linked—in the tabloids, anyway—to a very interesting project, indeed. Now that Casey Anthony has been acquitted of murder charges, the likelihood that there will be a film based on her sordid saga has skyrocketed.

Could Lindsay be just the gal to play a stonefaced liar who everyone believes is guilty? Maybe: She’s definitely generated just as much controversy and ire, if not more.

Last week, an industry insider speculated that Kristen Stewart would make a great Casey Anthony on the big screen, thanks to her “deer in the headlights” look.

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On behalf of both myself and Millad, we’d like to wish Lindsay a very happy and healthy 23rd birthday! As mentioned yesterday, you can send your messages to Lindsay wishing her Happy Birthday via her Twitter account, and who knows? She may even reply! Anyway, lets hope she has tons of fun and a wonderful day.

“I see some people who have to deal with in on an everyday basis — I am not a Jennifer Aniston or a Britney Spears or even a Lindsay Lohan, you know?” she explains. “My pictures don’t sell for that kind of money. But [of] the small level that I do deal with it, it is hard and there have been times [when] people don’t want to hang out with me because they don’t want to end up on the Internet. I sometimes just turn around and go back home and don’t do anything and have to have someone go do my grocery shopping.”

Source: ETOnline

WOW, this is a gorgeous picture isn’t it? It just leaked a few days ago and was taken by well known photographer, Scott Caan. It was taken on June 26th 2005 at a barbeque at Jared Leto’s house. Here’s what Caan had to say about the photo;

“I was saying hello to Lindsay and at one point she laid down, and I just got on the floor and took that photo. I’m sure people take photos of her all the time and she’s probably sick of it, but it was such a mellow atmosphere.”

To view the image, click the banner above. It’s of good quality but I hope we’ll get something a little bigger in the near future. Enjoy.