Lindsay Lohan’s nude Playboy shoot misjudged, say critics

HOLLYWOOD starlet Lindsay Lohan might as well have kept her clothes on for all the excitement her $1m nude ‘Marilyn Monroe’ shoot in Playboy magazine has caused.
 
The recreation of a famous Monroe photoshoot from 1949, with Lohan posing in the nude against a scarlet backdrop, has left most showbiz observers arguing over what was the worst aspect. “They photoshopped out her freckles and tattoos”, complained the Gawker website. “We’re not looking at Lindsay but a Lindsay-shaped work of graphic art.”

The site’s review lists all the ways in which Lohan’s features have been altered and it ends with an admonition for Hugh Hefner: “America expects better of its professional peddlers of smut.”
 
The Chicago Sun-Times claims the Monroe look doesn’t suit Lohan, arguing that the 1950s icon “did some unforgettable work in special movies”, while “Freaky Friday and Mean Girls stand as the crowning achievements of Lohan’s career.” The paper also cautions against a troubled actress impersonating another who suffered a tragic end.
 
Lohan may be dismayed that even rap star 50 cent has weighed in against her, revealing a hitherto unseen objection to female objectification. "$1 million to pose nude is the same thing strippers do almost every day for way less”, the P.I.M.P. star mused on Ace Showbiz. “If they give you a million dollars, does that change the status of what you've done? Is it socially different?”
 
The Daily Mail is a little more sympathetic, calling Lohan a “little girl lost” and pointing out how “uncomfortable” the actress looks in a behind-the-scenes shot taken of her in a dressing gown on the set of the Playboy shoot, before the air-brushers could do their bit.
 
It is a theme picked up by the LA Times, which believes it is Playboy that is teetering on the brink, suggesting “the real question is whether the decision to put Lohan on the cover is a last gasp for relevancy by the ageing magazine”. ·