I hate party-girl image: Lohan
Showbiz Desk

CHICAGO—Lindsay Lohan says she hates her reputation as a party girl. “I’m 20 years old. Is it a crime to go ... dancing with your friends?” the actress said Tuesday on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Lohan said she was “lucky and blessed” to be able to act.
“I’ve been acting my whole life and this is what I love to do,” said Lohan, whose screen credits include “The Parent Trap,” “Freaky Friday,” “A Prairie Home Companion” and the upcoming “Bobby,” about the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
Emilio Estevez, who directed the movie, told Winfrey that Lohan was a professional on the set, showed up on time and turned in “the best work of her life.” The media focuses on allegations of wild-child behaviour “because it sells,” Estevez said. “I’d rather have them focus on how extraordinary she is in this film,” he said.
“Bobby,” set for release Nov. 23, has an ensemble cast that also includes Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Anthony Hopkins and Laurence Fishburne.
In July, James G. Robinson, chief executive officer of Morgan Creek Productions, chided Lohan in a letter for her behaviour on the set of “Georgia Rule” and doubted her absence was related to heat exhaustion. “We are well aware that your ongoing all-night, heavy partying is the real reason for your so-called ‘exhaustion,’” he wrote.
Meanwhile, Lindsay Lohan is set to bring a long-forgotten Tennessee Williams screenplay, “The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond,” to the big screen. The screenplay tells the story of Fisher Willow (Lohan), the disliked 1920s Memphis debutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her.
After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy (played by Chris Evans), the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father (David Strathairn) and an insane mother who works at a store on her family’s plantation. She tries to pass him off as an upper-class suitor to appease the spinster aunt (Ann-Margret) who controls her family’s fortune, but when she loses a diamond, it places their tenuous relationship in further jeopardy. Ellen Burstyn is attached to play Fisher’s mother.
According to a source close to the indie film, production is expected to begin next year. The script was published in the four-part collection “Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays” in 1984.
In his introduction, Richard Gilman said it was discovered after Williams’ death and is believed to have been written in the 1950s. He wrote that “Diamond” was “perhaps the strongest of the four scripts (in the book) and the most likely candidate for filming”.