Lindsay Lohan's Benders Catching Up---Party Girl Like her Daddy?

Lindsay Lohan's emotional ups and downs have become a sort of disturbing subtext to what was a shot at superstardom. Lindsay's erratic behavior has again hit the public forums with a Smoking Gun letter from her Executive Producer James Robinson raising the possibility of legal action because of her Marilyn Monroe-level tardinesses and no-shows on the set of her latest movie, Georgia Rule. "All-Night Partying" appears to be the problem, and her residence at the Chateau Marmont, where John Belushi had a cottage where he partied right into the next world, does not bode well for her reform or rehab any time soon. CM is the Hollyweird capital of insane excess.

My daughter is a big Lohan fan and I enjoyed Lohan's Freaky Friday and Mean Girls along with her. I also noticed the problems Lindsay's father had with drinking, and the subsequent imprisonment for four years after frequent fights and car accidents. I have to give her a little parental guidance, if asked.

In our family, though we have never had major problems with the bottle, we call the difficulties LL is encountering "The Irish Curse."