Lindsay Lohan, I Have a Part for You

John O'Dowd's definitive biography, "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story" is packed with never-before-seen photos of the star, interviews with her family, friends, lovers and co-stars. It's under option right now to producer Barrett Stuart. We're expecting great things of it!

I'm Barbara Payton's biographer, and in my opinion, Lindsay Lohan needs to get both her life and her mind healthy...and not play Barbara in a film.

People like Lohan and Charlie Sheen have the best medical care in the world available to them and it's a shame they can't find a reason to work on overcoming their addictions and straighten their lives out. Barbara had to fight her numerous demons basically on her own and I still believe hers is one of the saddest and most tragic sagas in all of Hollywood history.

John O'Dowdwww.hollywoodstarletbarbarapay...

This is great story. I didn't know about this person.

also I have started to feel sorry for Lindsay now that she's actually facing six months. I know she broke the law and shouldn't get special treatment but sometimes I think about all the jewels that are stored up in vaults that no one even sees and it's hard to think that little chunk of metal and rocks is worth six months. But the truth is she needs to get straight and start working again and she can pay for her things like I have to. lol What girls behind bars flicks could Lindsay star in? Maybe they could slip her a cameraphone and do it bootleg style.

is this story biblical? until she was concrete bottom--the street. sigh!i miss the old west village days!at least, she´s got Dick. some queens have to beg for it.

@ Movielover: (Keep messing this up - hope I don't triple post) I was more thinking of Barbara if she were alive today - first she could be on Intervention, then Dr Drew Celebrity Rehab, after that her own show Barbara: Off the Bottle, Off the Game. Then maybe Dancing with the Stars...Lindsay does seem like a spoiled brat, but young people are often clueless. I keep hoping she'll turn her life around.

I just got off the phone with her & she's not considering any roles 4 a bit; or until we know her fate. Besides my daughter is no 5 dollar whore, nor does she have physical scars. She's just researching for a hush hush role she's been working on 4 years.

So you somehow know what I really meant? Please. I think it would be a great part for Lindsay, OK? If it's a cautionary tale as well, fine, but Lindsay would be great in the part and I've always said she was a god movie star.

I sense this is more a Musto to Lohan "let this be a lesson to you," though he would never put it in quite that way (not enough snark). It's easy to make fun of Lohan -- heck, most of us have done it -- but when you get right down to it, it's a tragic story. And while I doubt she'll descend to the depths of a Barbara Payton because she probably is far better off financially than Payton was before her fall, one hates to see a life self-ruined.

for more on Barbara, check out John O'Dowd's more recent bio at http://www.hollywoodstarletbar...

She could always play Daisy Duck. She already has the lips for it.

I feel sorry for the celebrities of the past whose careers tanked and then couldn't get work anymore. Reality shows were invented for just this sort of person.

I just googled her image. Kind of a Judy Holiday-Anita Ekberg looking gal. She must have been on drugs or a drunk. Isn't hooker-to-star the trajectory? She got it backwards going from star(let) to $5 dollar whore! Maybe $5 was more back in the 1960s though.

Maybe Lindsay isn't the best choice, but it's a great idea for a film. It would probably have to be an indie though because mainstream Hollywood doesn't go for reality. In a Hollywood script she'd have to be a happy hooker or saved from the gutter by a Knight in Shining Armor.

The Barbara Payton story needs someone who can take it all the grisly way to its Freaks-like ending... Paltrow in a fat suit? Amber Heard likewise? Paltrow is the right ending age, Heard could do a young, voluptous Barbara. Gretchen Mol? That actually sounds right.

So now we know who Madonna ripped "I am not ashamed" off of.

I'm loving me some Barbara Payton, But this is clearly a part for Sharon Stone!!