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[apocalypsos]

Spotted on IMDB ...

Teen actress Lindsay Lohan's breasts have been digitally reduced for forthcoming Disney film Herbie: Fully Loaded, to avoid offending family audiences. Test screenings for the new movie, the fourth sequel to the 1968 film The Love Bug about a Volkswagen Beetle car with a mind of its own, indicated that some parents felt Lohan's character Maggie Peyton was too raunchy for a children's film. Disney technicians were forced to plough through numerous scenes - especially those showing the busty actress jumping up and down at a motor racing track, reducing her breasts by two cup sizes and raising revealing necklines on her T-shirts. Amused at her digital bosom reduction, Lohan says, "I don't know how Renee Zellweger kept swelling and shrinking for Bridget Jones. It's no fun. Bring on the computer guys."

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Reading that makes my head hurt.

EDIT: Casting news per AICN for the Poseidon Adventure remake. Richard Dreyfuss playing a dumped gay guy! Kurt Russell playing the Ernest Borgnine part, except with an Emmy-Rossum-shaped daughter instead of an ex-prostitute wife! Dude, I adore the original to pieces, but if they have those guys, plus that rumor about Clive Owen playing SuperPriest, I would soooooooo see this. (Especially if they do what they did in the book and kill the annoying kid, who I might add is the only cast member listed on IMDb. The storyline about the weird rape of the older sister, though ... that I don't know if I'd want to see. Not because of the rape so much as because the dumbass rapist runs off and falls into a hole in the wreckage and the older sister ends the movie hoping he knocked her up so that there's a piece of him left behind. Um, EW.)

OTHER EDIT: Oh, for crying out loud. According to the IMDb forum for the remake, Clive Owen is out and Josh Lucas is in for ... somebody, although from looking at everybody else, I'm terrified it's supposed to be the Gene Hackman parallel role, and ... uh, no. Also, it says something about Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas playing the singer. If any of that is true, excuse me while I go cuddle my DVD.

THIS IS MY OTHER BROTHER EDIT: Wait, now they're not even basing it on the original movie or the book? Oh, fuck it.

Comments

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

0_o
It's not like she was putting peoples eyes out was she?

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Well, leaving aside the whole omg America has gone insane over boobies again, I thought Lindsay Lohan didn't have any anymore, after the hideous dieting thing?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, they did film it last year when she still had breasts. It's too bad she can't find a happy middle ground with the whole breast-size issue. I'm always at the happy middle ground, and I never have any problems. :)

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I thought that just made them look even more like they were stapled on.

[stevie-jane.livejournal.com]

If it's a kids movie why are the tops so low-cut as to be 'offensive' in the first place? Oh, wait, the idea of breasts at all is offensive, right? Especially big ones. Everyone knows women with large breasts are immoral.

[cyprinella]

Oh yeah. I totally am. Slutting about everywhere. Eating puppies. Voting Republican...

[paradoxymoron.livejournal.com]

*gasp* VOTING REPUBLICAN!
Nooo! the legs have turned to the dark side!


...this random comment is now over. ;)

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

In tomorrow's space-age fundamentalist utopia, women will be genetically engineered to only have breasts while they are nursing the babies they've borne to carry on their husband's name. When not actively using their teats for this shameful, yet necessary act, said appendages will wither and gently fall away, much like the cotyledon of a legume sprout, thus leaving the minds and morals of good Christian families unperturbed by wanton femaleness.

Of course, this is but one step towards a glorious future where women are no longer biologically necessary, leaving us a race of clean-cut, God-fearing, all-male supermen. Someday, someday! *wipes a tear*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Is this the same future where babies will be forced to wear blinders when being breastfed, so as not to see the offending appendages that feed them? I long for it so!

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

Yes! Truly, my sister, one day our all-male descendants will be free!

[akacat]

I'm sure there will be some way for a man to requisition regular hormone injections for his wife so that she has breasts. (It'll probably involve all sorts of regulations, like she can only go out in public if she's wearing a down coat.)

And of course, pimps will get the hormone medicine on the black market for their 'girls'. Thus leading to a new slang word for prostitutes: 'boobies'.

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

The terrifying thing is that this sort of Margaret Atwood scenario seems all too likely sometimes!

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

*headdesks* Because we can protect children from the dirty pillows forever. God knows they're never going to see them in actual real life! Maybe a point could be made on low-cut tops (though I have to wonder what they were doing there in the first place), but really.

Poor Lindsey. She used to be so lovely, and the person who first told her that she needed to lose weight needs to be shot.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

It's like people forget that a good number of these children have already seen, nay, SUCKED ON a woman's breasts by the time they give a rat's ass about a Lindsey Lohan movie. Or any movie at all, really.

'cept the Muppets. And nobody ever told Miss Piggy to zip that shirt up and hide HER huge tracts of land. Guess it is acceptable when they're felt. o.o

[acetal.livejournal.com]

I would say that it's generally never family-friendly when breasts are felt. ;)

[natgel.livejournal.com]

Woah.
You mean Lindsay Lohan has breasts?!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Had breasts. Either they were real and they vanished when she starved herself down to her current weight (if you can even consider what she's at now "weight") or they were fake and she donated to someone much less fortunate than herslef who couldn't afford implants.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Wait, now they're not even basing it on the original movie or the book? Oh, fuck it.

Ah, they're doing that thing that I like to call "Inspired by the title of the book by the same name."

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Starship Troopers! I, Robot!

*weeps*

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

It's nice to know that my breasts aren't family-friendly.

[lamiael.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? It brings me such joy to know that I may be giving idiots aneurysms by merely walking out of my house.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

some parents felt Lohan's character Maggie Peyton was too raunchy for a children's film.

Firstly, some parents? You know, some parents feel that women should wear veils in public.

Also, too raunchy for a Disney childrens' film? Okay, two words:

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

"Bob Hoskins"? Golly, what's so raunchy about Bob HoskOHHHHNOWIGETIT!

Best line of the movie!

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

"I'm not bad; I'm just drawn that way."

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Refresh my memory: If I were to make an icon using the text (in part) "Bill O'Reilly said women don't like Star Wars," I would be correct, no?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yup, you would. He made a big deal about seeing "Star Wars" and how there were only five women in the theater and women don't like "Star Wars" because "it's not real." His words. *gags*

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Well then. See icon.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

So, uh... women like romantic comedies because they're so incredibly true to life, yes?