Those Darn Kids - Part II

[hobie16]

From MiceAge

Lindsay: Fully Loaded, Continued...

Speaking of Lindsay Lohan, by mid-day of the last update on Tuesday July 11th, as the nationwide media picked up on our story, frantic calls were going out throughout Anaheim to both hourly and salaried Cast Members who had been witness to her infamous birthday party at Disneyland. The park's marketing machine was in full damage control mode, with answers being demanded by the executives in both the Team Disney buildings in Anaheim and Burbank.

It seems that Lohan's inappropriate behavior was news to Burbank, as the story really hadn't gone above the middle management level down in Anaheim. So several key executives there were taken by surprise on Tuesday by the headlines and were demanding answers. Their initial hope was that the account we published that Tuesday morning was inaccurate or blown out of proportion, and the phone calls and interviews that began Tuesday afternoon were hopefully going to prove the story false.

Unfortunately for Disneyland's marketing team, with every phone call or conversation they made the story gained more and more credibility, with even more salacious details coming out. Everyone from the hourly tour guides who escorted the party for the entire night, to the mid-level supervisors at each attraction who observed them in the loading areas or watched them on the newly installed 38 security cameras inside Pirates, to the more senior salaried managers who were quietly standing on the sidelines watching were all questioned.

There was even information gained through those interviews about the unconventional cigarettes some of Lohan's guests lit up on the Columbia and were quietly asked to extinguish by the Attractions manager on board that night. Lohan really let it all hang out during her stay at Disneyland, so much that many CM's working the event were witness to Lohan and her boy toy for the evening arguing and fighting with each other (apparently drunkenly) whenever the two hired cameramen weren't nearby.

By the end of that week, with over a dozen different Cast Member witnesses all saying the same thing, Disney marketing chiefs had resigned themselves to the fact that it was probably a major mistake to allow a notorious partier like Lohan to visit Disneyland after hours with her friends. The word was then given to the executive team that the evening's events did in fact play out as reported, that there were apparently dozens of witnesses to the shenanigans, and there wasn't much Burbank could do to refute the story.

To add insult to injury, numerous CM's who witnessed the debauchery of Lohan's birthday party also contacted E! Channel's Hollywood gossip columnist Ted Casablanca later that week, and he even quoted an hourly Cast Member who confessed to wanting to physically slap Lohan after witnessing her horrible behavior. Can you imagine the havoc she'll create when she turns of legal drinking age next year?

If she lasts that long that is.

[shorty1219]

I think that's awesome. No one can turn a blind eye to that!

[goose]

Well, things could be worse. She wasn't caught saying hateful things about the Jews.

[hobie16]

Well, things could be worse. She wasn't caught saying hateful things about the Jews.

The best thing that ever happened to Lindsay Lohan is Mel Gibson. Talk about getting kicked off the front page!

[darph nader]

Do you think Disney will make "Herbie the Love Bud..er Bug, Loaded..(i'm sorry) Reloaded"? :D:

Or maybe "Herbie Goes to Mexico"?

[Main Streeter]

Well, things could be worse. She wasn't caught saying hateful things about the Jews.

Goose, you are great! I love your quick wit. :D: :hysteria:

[LittleDollClaudia]

You know, my mama used to say that going to Disneyland was a privilege, not a right. It was and is a special place to have a good time, not for spoiled brats to make asses out of themselves. You want that, I'm sure there's a club out in L.A. for that. I know, I've been to a few. Where's the sweet Miss Lohan from the updated Parent Trap? Oh that's right. Britney, Christina, same story. Look where they are now. Uncle Walt, we miss you! Annette would have never acted like that.

[PirateJohn]

You know, my mama used to say that going to Disneyland was a privilege, not a right.

Yeah, but remember the culture we live in -- a lot of people seem to think their privileges ARE their rights.

[goose]

Goose, you are great! I love your quick wit. :D: :hysteria:

Thank you. :)

[ThunderCat]

Uncle Walt, we miss you! Annette would have never acted like that.

That's because she saw what happened to Tommy Kirk. "But what happened to Tommy Kirk?" you ask.

Check out this excerpt from the IMDB's biography of him:
Tommy became a prime juvenile hero and ideal mischief maker for many of Disney's wholesome full-length classics including Old Yeller (1957), The Shaggy Dog (1959), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), The Absent Minded Professor (1961), Babes in Toyland (1961) and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964). However, in 1964, the Disney factory found out Tommy was gay and they immediately released him from his contract after finishing The Monkey's Uncle (1965). Tommy still pursued teen-oriented movies but was essentially blacklisted from the industry and deemed "box office poison." The offers he did receive became progressively dismal.

Here's a personal quote: "Even more than MGM, Disney [in the early 1960s] was the most conservative studio in town....They were growing aware. They weren't stupid. They could add two and two, and I think they were beginning to suspect my homosexuality. I noticed people in certain quarters were getting less and less friendly....In 1963 Disney didn't renew my option and let me go. But Walt let me return to do the final Merlin Jones movie, 'The Monkey's Uncle,' because those were moneymakers for the studio."

"In the 1960s all my social life was underground gay. It was my own life. I kept it separate from work, where I went on publicity dates with Annette Funicello or Roberta Shore."

"In 1965, I'd signed a contract for The Sons of Katie Elder with John Wayne, but a week before shooting I went to a Hollywood party that the vice squad busted because of marijuana. I was handcuffed and photos of me got in the papers with headlines like 'Ex-Disney Child Star Arrested for Pot!' So Wayne and the producers fired me."

Annette was still making movies for Disney well into her 20's. She stopped working for Disney shortly after she began appearing in the beach-blanket-bikini films with Frankie Avalon (films that are admittedly amazingly tame by today's standards, but were considered racier then). According to the IMDB, "When she was cast in her first beach movie, Walt Disney asked her to not wear a bikini and instead wear a one-piece swimsuit because she had an image to uphold. She agreed." It also adds, "When she made the various beach pictures for American International Pictures (AIP), she was still technically under contract to Disney, doing the AIP films on a loan-out basis, something of which Walt Disney always emphatically reminded her."

Lohan likely has no threat of blackballing hanging over her head... she's proven that she's a bankable enough name (she ain't A-list, but still...) that even if she doesn't make another picture for Disney, there's always someone else who will cast her.