On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A prior time Lohan was on, perhaps the last time, Letterman broached the >> question with Lohan on whether she was an addict. Dave got some heat for >> this. some people thought he was pushing her too hard. >> then a couple of weeks like she made this admission on something that had >> to do with Oprah. Like maybe she would have lost this publicity chance >> That could have something to do with the softball questions for Lohan. >> > > 1. If Dave pulled punches because of that (and I don't believe he did), > then I've lost an incredible amount of respect for Dave. That Lohan > interview was great evidence that Dave could still go balls out when he > wants to, and it makes powerful television. > Again, I saw no evidence that Dave was pulling any punches in Friday night's show. I did google "Lohan Sex Partners" and read the first headline that got my eye - as far as I could tell from that this is even less of an actual story than I had presumed. Some gossip site claims they found a scrap paper discarded from a hotel restaurant table that Lohan allegedly wrote down the names of 36 famous and semi-famous men she had sex with to impress her girlfriends. She herself has not commented on it, people from her camp say it is not hers, and some people on the list have denied knowing her carnally. Once this gets into the tabloid media it probably becomes grist for late night monologue jokes, but it is hardly the meaningful target of any kind of interview that is pretending to be serious or "balls to the wall" or tough in any way. What Dave did do Friday night was indirectly allude to the earlier interview, when he asked her something like: "Lindsey, I thought we were friends, I thought I was something of a father figure to you, and then you have gone on everybody else's show in the last year and not mine." She brushed it off, and if you want to accuse Dave of being less than pugnacious I guess you could ask why he did not grab on to that issue and not let go, instead of his breakfast fixation. But I think the fact that he did not ask her if she really had sex with those 36 names is not a sign of going soft or pulling punches, but just good judgement - not because it would be rude or controversial, but because it would be boring and silly. Maybe he should have asked her if she was wearing panties? -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
