ELLE has summarized their Interview with Lindsay Lohan, and the things they mention somewhat differ from all the other Elle previews, so I thought I’d add it here – bolding my own:

This story was going to begin with the white picket fence some 20 feet away, separating Lindsay Lohan from the sidewalk. The actress, 36 hours from being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, was sitting on the patio at the Beverly Hills restaurant the Ivy, with her back to the street. Like Tippi Hedren in The Birds, she lit a cigarette with a steady hand, unaware of what was beginning to happen behind her. The L.A. sun was high and white, bleaching the blue from an empty sky, shrinking Lohan’s pupils to pinpoints, even under the shade of an umbrella. Against this harsh light, first one, then two, three, and four, and another and another, and others, silently gathered along the fence, multiplying in the same small space until all the faces became a faceless mass. Waiting…

It would be an easy transition from there to what Lohan is wearing and eating and promoting. That’s the way these things go. But there’s the picture, and then there’s the bigger picture. The one in which the camera pulls back to reveal the star smiling, knowing what’s going on behind her back. After all, she picked the restaurant, she picked the table outside. “When I pulled up, there were three paparazzi following me,” Lohan says. “I wanted you to see it. But you weren’t here.” She looks disappointed; as if she were wishing I could have seen the dogs hounding the fox into the safety of this celebrity wildlife refuge, famous for its $33 crab cakes, $13 Ivy gimlets, and big-game photo ops. Now I wouldn’t be able to relay the thrilling awfulness of what she has to survive to get a decent meal. But all is not lost. Lohan brightens: “I can’t wait for you to see what happens when we leave!”

She’s funny when she says this; like a kid with a match, eager to set off the fireworks. And I appreciate her efforts to cast herself in a context. The best stars do…

Lohan is at the top of the pile?the picture of her passed out in the front seat of a car sold for more than $150,000…

Now our girl is in serious trouble. She’s been enabled through countless club nights; toxic relationships; delays on movie sets; hospitalizations for exhaustion, dehydration, a swollen liver, a kidney infection, and an appendectomy; two incidents of missing underwear; four car accidents; two lawsuits; any number of lost opportunities; a pseudo rehabilitation at the ridiculously titled Wonderland Center…all before the age of 21.

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