Gibson, Lohan behaving badly

Posted by Amber Nasrulla Jul 31, 2006

Mel Gibson. Lindsay Lohan. There's more than 30 years of age and world experience separating the Oscar winner from the red-haired tart-about-town but, in less than a week, both Mel and Lindsay have shown the world that they are fabulously bratty.

Last Friday, on a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) in Malibu, Gibson was pulled over for drunk driving. He's apologized for acting "completely out of control" during his recent confrontation with Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, but he allegedly made some anti-Semitic comments at the same time.

A lot of people have been stopped for driving drunk - Halle Berry, Paula Abdul, Nick Nolte, the list goes on and on - and their careers recovered. The difference is they didn't, ahem, say wretched stuff like, "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." That comment was posted on TMZ.com and billed as a portion of the arresting deputy's original report.

Now on to Mme Lohan. She's missed huge chunks of filming time on her latest film Georgia Rule. Publicists said she was suffering from heat exhaustion. That wasn't entirely implausible as it has been 40 degrees in L.A. for weeks even by the beaches.

Last week one executive decided he'd had enough. He sent her a letter directly, not to her agents, publicist or manager, but to where she was staying at the swank Chateau Marmont. Portions of it were published in the L.A. Times.

Telling the 20-year-old Lohan that she has "acted like a spoiled child," James G. Robinson, the chief of Morgan Creek Productions, wrote in the letter that he's not buying Lohan's story of illness and fatigue,

"You and your representatives have told us that your various late arrivals and absences from the set have been the result of illness; today we were told it was 'heat exhaustion.' We are well aware that your ongoing all night heavy partying is the real reason for your so-called 'exhaustion,' "Robinson wrote in the letter that was posted Friday on the Smoking Gun website.

Aaah. The only question now is where do Gibson's and Lohan's careers go? They'll probably come back bigger than ever.

Stay tuned.