Is there a purer cackle than those generated by magazine lead-in times?
You are cordially invited to weep knowingly at an Elle interview with troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan, granted sometime before The Unpleasantness, but which has just hit the newsstands.
"I wouldn't violate," Lindsay says of America's fine laws against being even a little bit wasted at the wheel. "I'm much more responsible than that. I would not do that.... It's scary that [the paparazzi] are looking for me to, like, trip, so they can be like, 'Oh, Lindsay's wasted and driving drunk.' "
Clearly, the interview may now be regarded as a masterclass in Sophoclean irony, akin to the moment at which Oedipus laughs off suggestions that he will marry his mother, kill his own father, and be arrested for indulging in a drunken car chase with someone else's coke in his skinny jeans.
