First things first, Maple Leaf--the publisher of the old "Confidential" magazine once said that most of his "celebrity trash" came from the celebrities themselves.

It would be a mistake to believe much, if any, of what you read about Lindsay Lohan. Contrary to what anyone might think, it takes a lot of effort to keep your name in the papers, and publicists are more interested in placing a story than in relating the actual facts.

I didn't see any of the films in question, but I suspect that they weren't the best- properties to start with-chances are, they needed all the publicity that they could get--a controversial star, a little scandal, and lots of publicity about troubles during production, created advance "buzz" so that, on the first weekend at least, people would be curious. After that, word of mouth kills a bad film, but at least the publicists did their jobs.

If LL were really as erratic as the publicity implies, the film producers couldn't get completion bonds, and her career would have been over long ago.



As to Mr. McIsaac--maybe an album of "Duets" with a variety of established Canadian stars--Joni Mitchell, KD Lang, Burton Cummings, Neil Young etc, would put him back on the map--or an Ian Tyson tribute album--