Lindsay Lohan and Machiavelli: it's not a connection we would have ever (overtly and therefore libellously) made ourselves, but seeing as Kenneth Baker can go on TV and claim that Gordon Brown is a modern day Macbeth, dammit, let's examine LiLo and the Italian nobleman.
Um, let's see, there's the multiple artistic talents (who can forget Lindsay's occasional dabblings in the pop world? Or her driving skills?) There's the clear-eyed pragmatic approach to life. There's there's the way they both built up the Florentine militia. The list just writes itself!
In an interview in next month's Tatler Lindsay says that "someone" she was going out with recommended it to her (the wise money is on Calum Best.) Some boyfriends give their ladies flowers, others recommend books about power hungry control freaks - happy Valentine's day, honey! "And I was like, 'Nah', and then I was, 'Ok, I'll read it', and now it is always with me," reports Lohan, already betraying the literary influence the book has wielded on her psyche.
And who can blame her for finding so much relevant material in The Prince? A young prince, stepping into a land where others have ruled before (like, the Hiltons, say) and struggling to control the ungrateful subjects to his/her whims. You see where we're going with this one?
Of course, it's not just a boring old book that has brought some new-found solace to our Linds: there are "serenity prayers" and the obligatory "meditation" (and to anyone out there saying, 'How can you tell if she's meditating or just passing out, that's just not very supportive, is it?)
After making the somewhat disturbing revelation that she "hates sleeping alone" (again, bringing us back to Calum Best) Lindsay has some harsh words about anyone who dares to label her a party girl: "It doesn't kill you to go out and dance." Possibly not but going out to dance, taking loads of oxycontin and then passing out on your steering wheel en route home, well, that might be a whole new pile o' potatoes.
