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Lindsay Lohan To Play Elizabeth Taylor in TV movie

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Written by Ryan McMurtry

That title is not incorrect.  Lindsay Lohan has indeed been signed up to play screen icon Elizabeth Taylor in a movie for Lifetime Television. 

That title is not incorrect.  Lindsay Lohan has indeed been signed up to play screen icon Elizabeth Taylor in a movie for Lifetime Television. 

Fernando Torres scores (yes, an actual goal) in the last minute against Barcelona at the Nou Camp to send Chelsea into the Champions League Final, and it isn’t the most surprising thing that has happened this week, which is quite incredible.

It will be interesting to see if Lohan manages to stay out of rehab or jail long enough to complete what must be one of the worst pieces of casting of all time.  

Lohan said on the matter: ‘She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.’  I’m sure everyone will be confident that fellow incredible actress Lohan, with her impressive CV of blockbuster films, such as the Parent Trap, will be able to sink her cigarette stained fingers into the role.

I can’t really imagine how Lohan would work in a film about Elizabeth Taylor, unless the writers draft in a character called ‘shit drunk sister.’  If they include the auction of Taylor’s things at the end of the film, maybe Lohan can chip in with her collection of blokes’ left behind socks from the floor of her bedroom.  Or ladies’ socks, from that time she decided she was a lesbian for a while.

What will such a casting do for the down and outs of Hollywood?  Surely, if Lindsay Lohan can be considered by someone with (allegedly) a working brain to be worthy of playing one of the 20th Century’s most iconic screen figures, then people like Charlie Sheen will be thinking, ‘you know what, I’m going to get myself in for a film playing tee-total musical irk Cliff Richard, because why the hell not?  While I’m at it I’ll get Verne Troyer along to co-star as He-Man.  Cliff Richard obviously never met He-Man, but does it matter anymore?’ 

It just leaves the question: who deserves to stand beside the elegant Lohan in the role of Taylor’s love interest, Welsh acting legend Richard Burton?  I think perhaps Kevin Federline.