Not the ‘Best Time’ for Lindsay
From Peter David

LOS ANGELES—We’re shocked — shocked! — to hear that Lindsay Lohan may not have been spreading her usual bundle of sunshine and rainbows during her recent sojourn in London. Tales of snubs and snits abound. Here are the lowlights:
Lohan and Keira Knightley are set to play opposite one another in the drama “The Best Time of Our Lives,” but will the title turn out to be a bit misleading? The London Sunday Mirror says Lindsay, 20, didn’t exactly haul out the welcome wagon when she met Keira, 21, for the first time last week.
Seems the socializing, tabloid-bait starlet was annoyed to learn her future costar was going to be at the same swanky club she was, and supposedly had her people twice call Keira’s people to find out what designer duds she would be donning that evening. “She was adamant she wasn’t going to be upstaged,” a snitch tattles to the tab.
About an hour after the “Pirates of the Caribbean” beauty turned up at the hotspot — with her Orlando Bloom-alike beau Rupert Friend in tow — she was given the go-ahead to approach Lohan.
“Once inside, Lindsay sent a text, insisting Keira come to her,” maintains the mole. “Keira went over — but was then kept waiting as her ‘rival’ chatted to pals.” The paper says Knightley was finally granted face time with Lohan, whom she purportedly greeted with a chipper, “Hi. It’s great to finally meet you. I’m really excited about working with you on our film next year.”
Lindsay’s alleged response to this graciousness: A tepid “Oh, yeah, great,” after which she promptly returned to gabbing with her friends.
Perhaps Lindsay was just feeling out of sorts after allegedly having to shell out big bucks for a lost bit of bling.
The London Sun claims she had to fork over almost $40,000 after a diamond-dotted Cartier bracelet she borrowed for her ill-fated turn as host of the World Music Awards last Wednesday (she was reportedly booed by the audience before falling down some stairs, prompting her to bail out of the rest of the show) disappeared from her hotel room.
“It was embarrassing,” a source tells the tab. “She had a string of pals coming in and out of her room as well as security, management and hotel staff tending to regular requests. The room was turned upside down and fingers were being pointed at various people for it going missing. Lindsay ducked out of seeing the jewellers herself and left her management to sweep it under the carpet.”
Lohan, whose unmentionables also went missing last week, if cornea-searing paparazzi shots of her too often-seen lady parts are any indication, is also accused of having a pair of meltdowns while hitting the club scene.
The Sun says she tossed a hissy fit after a misguided staffer had the audacity to hand her — and not her manager — the nearly $1,500 bar bill they’d rung up. Her tantrum was supposedly so “epic” that their tab was comped. The other huff, reports the Mirror, happened after she discovered there was no VIP area set up at a Donna Karan soiree. We know — horrors! A source asserts Lindsay was in tears and “inconsolable” over the lack of exclusivity, which was quickly remedied when a VIP section was thrown together to keep the riff-raff at bay.
Her London trip wasn’t without a hint of romance, however, D-list though it might have been. The Mirror says Lohan engaged in a liplock session with British lothario Calum Best shortly after they met.
But it turns out Lindsay’s non-stop partying schedule has some pals worried about her future well-being, especially after she was spotted in London sporting cuts on her wrist, which the Sun posited may have been self-inflicted (her rep insists she just tumbled into some bushes).
“At the rate she’s going, I would be surprised if she lived past the age of 22,” a doomsayer pal pronounces to the New York Post. “There is no one in her life to guide her or help her. Her mother is a mess, her father is in jail and she has no authority figure, because she has paid the family bills for as long as she can remember with her acting”.