Crying Over Too Much Milk?

Lindsay Lohan via last.fm

You may have heard about actress Lindsay Lohan suing E-Trade Financial for $100 million over a commercial that's been airing since the Super Bowl.  It's one of those "talking baby" ads that tell us how easy it is to buy or sell stocks over the Internet.  In one of them, a girl baby named Lindsay is referred to as a "milkaholic".  Well, Lohan seems to believe the ad was about her.

She also believes that the name Lindsay has achieved one-name status, just like Oprah or Madonna.  Which should come as a surprise to the millions of girls and women named Lindsay.

Whether or not you believe Lohan is reacting like someone out of a Carly Simon song, you have to admit that she might have a point.  Too many tabloid headlines have depicted her as a young woman who has self-destructive tendencies when it comes to booze and sex.  Her run-ins with the law, and her stints in and out of rehab, have been well documented.

Lohan used to be this on-the-rise star who first appeared in Disney movies, then got great reviews for her roles in "Mean Girls" and "A Prairie Home Companion".  Now she's a cautionary tale about the dangers of being a star in Hollywood in the 21st century.  Her most recent movie, which was intended for theaters, ended up on cable.  Basic cable.

Should this case ever get to trial (and there's no guarantee that it will), we'll be hearing plenty about how Lohan was allegedly damaged in some way by the E-Trade babies.  What she really needs to do is to get her life and career back together, so that we won't have to hear tales (true or not) of her acting like an idiot.  Then maybe her cautionary tale will have a happy ending.