Hef says Lindsay Lohan issue is breaking sales records

The Lindsay Lohan issue of Playboy magazine seems to be a hit. Hugh Hefner tweeted on Sunday that “The Lindsay Lohan January-February Double Issue is breaking sales records.” Though Playboy isn’t releasing official numbers yet, a spokesperson for the magazine said the issue is doing “very well.”

A spokesperson for Hudson News, one of the countries largest chains of newsstands, also didn’t have figures yet, but concurred that “we have noticed excitement in the stores about this issue … so we assume that the issue will do very well.”

But will it be a record-breaker? That would be quite a feat, since Playboy sold around 7 million copies per month back in its heydays of the early 1970s. Today, its circulation is closer to 1.5 million. But it’s still feasible to consider that Lohan’s issue might rival other popular Playboys featuring celebrity photo spreads, like the approximately 4 million copies of the 1995 issue that featured Farrah Fawcett. If Lohan does really break Playboy‘s sales records, Hefner might want to think about cutting another million-dollar check for Ms. Lohan.

Source: popwatch.ew.com

Lindsay “smart” to do Playboy shoot, dad says

It was a nude photo shoot even a father could love. Lindsay Lohan’s appearance in this month’s issue of Playboy has received Michael Lohan’s endorsement.

Lilo’s often estranged father tells Dr. Drew Pinsky on an episode of “Lifechangers” next week that the shoot was a smart move for his daughter, because it got her working again after years of legal troubles.

“If she’s happy with it, I’m happy with it,” Lohan said, according to a report in the New York Daily News.

That said, he won’t look at his daughter’s latest work.

“I haven’t seen it and I never look at it, any of it,” Lohan said.

The magazine features an eye-catching cover of the actress channeling Marilyn Monroe while straddling a red Playboy bunny chair — inside the issue, she loses the chair entirely.

Lilo’s mother, Dina Lohan, was the one who broke the news of her daughter’s photo spread to the press and assured “Herbie Fully Loaded” fans the world over that the shoot would be “tastefully done.” But she reportedly had reservations about the amount of Lindsay that was on display.

“I think it was essentially mama and the folks around her that kept pushing for less nudity,” Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner told E! recently. “And I said, ‘We’re doing a nude pictorial here. We’re going to do it in a very classy way and we’re going to do it in a way in which it will not be forgotten.’”

Parental reactions aside, the public seems to be lapping up the Lohan issue. Thanks to Lindsay bearing all, the magazine sold 55 percent more ad pages than the same issue the previous year.

Source: news.yahoo.com

Shopping at Barneys (December 16)

Lindsay at the courthouse (December 14)

Lindsay leaving the Staples Center (December 13)

Yu Tsai photoshoot for Playboy

NSFW. 18+

Lindsay Lohan makes good progress on probation

Actress Lindsay Lohan, who is on probation for drunk driving and theft convictions, pleased a judge for a change on Wednesday by completing her court-ordered community service and therapy sessions on time.

“Miss Lohan, you have actually done your work, and not only done it, but done it early,” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner told the actress in court.

Lohan, 25, dressed conservatively in a cream-colored cardigan and trousers, and she smiled and joked with the judge after her progress report came back positive.

The “Mean Girls” actress was in court to review the first month of a court-ordered, five-month community service sentence at the Los Angeles County morgue, where she is required to work at least 12 days a month. She also must complete four therapy sessions. She adequately completed both for Wednesday’s progress hearing.

Lohan rose to fame as a likable child star of Disney movies such as “The Parent Trap,” but has been in and out of trouble — spending time in rehab and in jail — since 2007 when she was convicted on drunk driving and drug possession charges.

Earlier this year, the actress pleaded no contest, which is the equivalent of guilty, to stealing a gold necklace from a jewelry story and was sentenced to 480 hours community service at a L.A. women’s detention center and the county morgue.

But Lohan failed to adequately perform that sentence, and in October, Sautner angrily revoked her probation and sent her to jail. At the time, the judge called Lohan’s previous sentence a “gift” and said, “there’s something called looking a gift horse in the mouth.”

Lohan served just over four hours in an LA county jail in November due to overcrowding and for the rest of her sentence was assigned to community service at the county morgue and psychological counseling.

Sautner on Wednesday also addressed confusion over Lohan’s permission leave California, clarifying that the actress could leave only for work purposes, unless she had completed her assigned 12 days of service and four therapy sessions a month. If finished, she is free to travel at will, the judge said.

Sautner’s clarification on vacation came after Lohan took a trip to Hawaii this week to celebrate her sister’s birthday, then missed her return flight to Los Angeles on Tuesday for her scheduled interview with chat show host Ellen DeGeneres to promote her upcoming Playboy magazine feature spread.

The missed flight caused numerous celebrity media to speculate that Lohan might again have made a misstep, but she made it to Sautner’s court on time. Her next progress hearing is scheduled for January 17, 2012.

Source: news.yahoo.com

Lindsay leaving Staples Center after Jay-Z concert (Dec 13)