“When I see an American flag flying, it’s a joke.” – Robert Altman
Actress Lindsay Lohan was adorable as twin sisters seperated at birth in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap, but now she’s just one more bloated Hollywood booze-hound mourning the death of her latest enabler, Hollywood pot-head Robert Altman.
It can be argued that Altman epitomized the modern Hollywood zeitgeist – questionable talent, total self-absorption and an utter absence of understanding of how America afforded him the exalted position he held. Perhaps nowhere else in the world would a person like Altman obtain the wealth and influence he enjoyed here in America. Yet he, like his Hollywood comrades who make fantastic sums of money entirely off the adulation of ordinary Americans, was openly, and ignorantly I might add, contemptuous of his own country.
And now, one of the most notable tributes to his eminence comes from Lohan, more notable for her bouts with the bottle than anything else. Her rambling letter of condolence to Altman’s family, while touching in places, exposes a person who has not spent her formative years wisely, learning, say, a grasp of the language. We can and should feel empathy for Lohan, but no one at this point should be taking advice from her.