Lindsay Lohan in jail for the first time! (2010)
07/20/2010
Do yall remember when Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail on 2010? Well, here's what BBC said at the time (and also an ABC news video)
Lindsay Lohan is heading to jail after breaking the terms of her probation for drink driving.
A judge in Los Angeles sentenced the troubled star to 90 days in prison.
She was also ordered to take substance abuse classes.
The 24-year-old broke down in tears as the sentence was passed. She had been recalled to court for failing to attend alcohol awareness sessions, ordered after a 2007 conviction for drunk-driving.
Caught cheating
In an emotional statement, Lohan insisted that she was taking the terms of her probation seriously.
She said: "I'm not taking this as a joke. It's my life. It's my career".
However, Judge Marsha Revel criticised the young star, saying her behaviour was like "someone who cheats but doesn't think it's cheating if they don't get caught".
Lindsay Lohan admitted driving under the influence of alcohol, and using cocaine in August 2007.
At the time she was sentenced to one day in jail.
The actress ended up spending just 84 minutes behind bars.
Since then she has repeatedly failed to stick to the terms of a three-year probation order.
In May 2010 she failed to turn up for a court progress hearing, claiming to have had her passport stolen while in Cannes, France.
She also missed a number of alcohol education classes.
Her jail sentence is due to begin on 20 July.
ABC News talking about Lindsay Lohan on YouTube
Britney Spears Hair Meltdown (February 2007)
02/??/2007
Well, this is the moment where Britney's hell started
I don't know if yall were alive at that time (personally, i wasnt born on 2007), but this moment where Britney shaved her head due to the pressure on her was where people started questioning her mental health (but i may be incorrect), i just know that this shocked the public. I'll now show an article from New York Magazine, by the journalist Mark Stevens (as you can see, imo at least, he makes fun of her before all of this):
Until she shaved her head, I had not spent a moment thinking about Britney Spears. All I knew was that she sang music for 12-year-olds, was nicknamed “Pop Tart,” and lived in Paris at the Hilton, or something like that. She just seemed to be a piece of the celebrity trash that’s always sloshing around. But the photographs of her shaved head stopped me short. They were fascinating.
Online, I caught up with the divorce and the party binge (sans her two baby sons), the pantyless paparazzi photos, and the vomiting on her entourage. After the hair came off, she’d gone to a tattoo parlor and, weeping and screaming, inked a kiss on her wrist and a cross on her hip. The next day she was wearing a cheap Marilyn wig.
What the press, which was busy moralizing (“her poor little boys”) and faux-empathizing (“she needs help”), never acknowledged was that Spears’s crack-up was the most interesting performance of her life. She seemed to be trying, with befuddled brilliance, to tell the truth. She recoiled from celebrity culture by mortifying her own flesh. She stripped herself, publicly, of her sexuality. She presented herself as a grotesque. Few gestures are as symbolically rich as the shaving of a head. That’s what monastics do when they reject the flesh to dedicate themselves to the spirit. In boot camp, soldiers lose their individuality with their hair. Delilah cut off Samson’s to make him defenseless. The French, after the liberation, shaved the heads of collaborators.
Unlike Madonna, Spears has never called her own shots. She is just a money-making toy adults sell children. The press rarely calls her “Spears.” That might suggest she’s human. She’s Britney, the singing Barbie. A concoction. She was first marketed as a child celebrity—beginning as a Mouseketeer—and then, when she filled out, transformed into teen cheese. Her mortification of the flesh at 25 is just the latest example of how bizarrely troubling American society finds the female body. (The current hysteria about anorexic fashion models, who treat the body as something to be designed, like clothing, is another example.) The sacrificial standard was, of course, set by Marilyn Monroe. It made perfect sense for Spears, after her mortification, to hide as Marilyn.
The latest news is that Spears is dropping in and out of rehab. Will she OD or commit suicide like Monroe? Will she have a Grand Guignol death like the fat-obsessed Anna Nicole Smith? No one publicly asks those questions, but that’s what everyone wonders. Her rejection of rehab is provocative: The doctors may be treating the wrong addiction. They would naturally like to restore “Britney” to health, whereas Spears obviously wants to get rid of her dolldom. Asked by a photographer why she shaved her head, she answered, “Because of you.” At the hair salon, she said she was “tired of everybody touching me.” Out of the mouths of babes.
