Those Darn Kids - Part II
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:05 pm
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.
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.
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.