This will probably be the first of a series–sort of an extention of the magazine cover art series but this one will feature record covers (or photos–I have a pretty awful one of Kiss that I can use in the future) of rock/pop stars being, um, sexy. I think that this will serve as a pretty classy first installment. While investigating this record, the cover of which I have admired for ages in the used bin of a local record store, I discovered that the title track is in fact a (forgettable) cover of the Maytals song.
On this day in 2007 it was reported that Lindsay Lohan had been admitted to a hospital again nearly a year to the day since her last post-New Year’s hospitalization! She must really overdo it while ringing in the New Year!
It seems as though on Jan 6, 2007, Lindsay went to her doctor complaining of stomach pains. The doctor performed several tests and discovered that the problem was appendicitis. The following day, exactly two years ago today, Lindsay was asked to go to some hospital where her appendix was removed. It was reported that she was again “resting comfortably” while recuperating.
Just a few days prior to her hospitalization Linds was photographed hanging out poolside with her ex-boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama. I wonder what that guy has been up to.
Just a few days later (January 11, 2007), this photo of Lindsay jogging in a bikini while smoking a cigarette was taken. Thank goodness for her speedy recovery!
I think I was only slightly aware of The Verve’s existence before they scored a near top ten hit in the States with Bittersweet Symphony. I dug that song and I bought the album, Urban Hymns, assuming that there would be songs similar to Bittersweet Symphony on it. There weren’t. Instead there were a handful of decent ballads and a handful of shitty mid tempo rock numbers. It was pretty average stuff.
Seeing as how the album sold over one million copies in the United States alone, I doubt I was the only one disappointed by the lack of more bittersweet symphonies on it. I for some reason seem to recall subsequently owning their first LP too. Maybe I thought that there was a Bittersweet Symphony-a-like on that. There wasn’t. If I recall correctly (and I don’t even care if I am correct here or not) that one featured almost jammy mid tempo rockers.
From what I understand, the band put out a reunion LP last summer. I doubt that has the follow up to Bittersweet Symphony that I was looking for and I don’t even really care about Bittersweet Symphony anymore anyway.
There was a diamond in the rough on the otherwise tedious second half of Urban Hymns, the song Lucky Man. This one actually charted in the States and I think that it got some play on MTV. Play it loud. It’s hot stuff.
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Oh, and I should mention that I thought that The Drugs Don’t Work and Sonnet were pretty decent songs as well, and that I think that Ashcroft looks every inch the rock star (see photo above).
I found this small ad for a Burt Reynolds flick that I have never seen entitled Shamus in a 1972 magazine. That little illustration beneath Burt’s name really caught my eye but I couldn’t quite make out what was going on in it as the ad took up less than even a quarter of the magazine’s page.
I blew the image up as best as I could and it is as ridiculous as I had hoped it would be. I’m going to have to check this movie out.
No long-time Lohan watcher will ever forget the events of January 3, 2006 and the days that followed. Lindsay was two weeks away from beginning wasting her time filming that Chapter 27 thing where Jared Leto assassinated John Lennon (I think that that finally got an all but direct to DVD release sometime last year…another Lohan film that I have yet to see). The last we had heard from Lindsay was that she had spent New Year’s Eve pulling hosting duties at some Miami hot spot called Prive. So business as usual, then.
On Tuesday, January 3rd, the gossip blogs began reporting that Lindsay had been hospitalized after suffering an asthma attack so severe that it caused a blood vessel in her neck to break! By the time the news of the asthma attack broke Linds was “resting comfortably” in some hospital in Miami.
Things got worse from there when People magazine leaked some explosive details from a Vanity Fair article on Linds which was to be published the following day. In this article Lindsay admitted to having problems with bulimia and drugs!
“I was sick,” the then 19-year-old actress admitted to Vanity Fair. “I had people sit me down and say, ‘You’re going to die if you don’t take care of yourself.'” And who were these people who sat her down and gave her the tough love she needed? Lorne Michaels and the cast of Saturday Night Live of course!
This intervention went down after Lindsay’s May 21, 2005 appearance on the lame NBC comedy show. The intervention was a tearful affair: “I just started bawling. I knew I had a problem, and I couldn’t admit it,” Lohan said. “I saw that SNL after I did it. My arms were disgusting. I had no arms.” Her siblings were also terrified of seeing Lindsay with no arms: “My sister, she was scared. My brother called me, crying.”
Here’s a scene of Lindsay with no arms on Saturday Night Live.
These were exciting times. In the Vanity Fair article Lindsay finally admitted that she had used drugs “a little,” but that was all in the past. “I’ve gotten that out of my system. … I don’t want people to think that I’ve done … you know what I mean? It’s kind of a sore subject.” Lindsay’s handlers asked VF to remove the drugs bit from the article but they refused. Elsewhere in the article, Lindsay reports on how much she has changed since those wild days and nights before the intervention. “For my birthday, I flew to L.A. for the weekend and just sat in a little restaurant with my friends and just, like, had dinner, went back to my friend’s house and didn’t do anything. That’s how much I’ve changed. When I was 18, I had a party at Avalon with an ‘I’m a Slave 4 You’ theme.”
Now, as if the word of the hospitalization and the earth-shattering Vanity Fair article weren’t enough Lohan news for one day, there was more. Later on that same day details emerged of a late-night shopping trip made by a friend of Lindsay’s and Lindsay’s limo driver where they went to some spot to pick her up a bunch of junk that she needed. Around 1:30 AM, the friend and driver returned to Lindsay’s room with overnight bags, a pregnancy test (!), Cocoa Puffs, cards, Coca Cola and mouthwash.
Lindsay would remain in the hospital until the fifth of January. By the time of her release, her PR folks had added extreme humidity to the asthma attack as the cause of her hospitalization and claimed that the pregnancy test was for Lindsay’s friend and not Lindsay herself. Either way, none of this had anything to do with drugs. It was said that upon her release she was headed straight to New York City to begin preparing for the filming of Chapter 27.
chained and perfumed 