Judge Marsha Revel sentenced Lohan to 30 days for each of the 2007 drunk driving charges and another 30 days for a 2007 reckless driving charge. The terms will run consecutively for a total 90 days.
Lohan, 24, whose once promising movie career has floundered in recent years, sobbed loudly when she heard the ruling. Earlier, she tearfully begged the judge for another chance saying she was taking her alcohol education classes seriously.
“I am not taking this as a joke. This is my life. It is my career. It is something I have worked for all my life,” the actor pleaded.
The court order came after giving the Lohan several chances during her probation. Lohan had earlier spent 84 minutes in jail in 2007 as part of her sentence and was given three years probation.
The court clearly has seen enough to finally pass a bitter verdict. But has Hollywood seen enough? Will Lohan, once she’s done serving a sentence scheduled to begin on July 20, ever work again?
The answer is probably yes. Matthew Wilder, a filmmaker, set to direct Lohan in the Linda Lovelace biopic Inferno, says he is “100 per cent behind Lindsay” and “we are proud to have this remarkable artist work on our film.”
Talent is talent, of course, and Lohan’s performances in films like The Parent Trap and Mean Girls suggest the sentencing is unlikely to blemish her showbiz career.
Celebrity spotlight
Ironically enough, other celebrities who have had run-ins with the police at some point have managed to maintain their star quotient, including Hollywood actors Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr, Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, musician George Michael, supermodel Naomi Campbell, Bollywood actors Sanjay Dutt and Salman Saeed and Pakistani musicians Ali Haider and Farhan Saeed.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 9th, 2010.
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