The Price of Fame

	Rehab	Arrests	Death
Lindsay Lohan	Twice	Twice
Dana Plato	Once	Twice	Suicide
Todd Bridges	Once	Once
Britney Spears	Once
Drew Barrymore	Twice
River Phoenix			Overdose
Macaulay Culkin		Once
Corey Feldman	Once	Once
Danny Bonaduce	Twice	Twice
Mary-Kate Olsen	Once
Kelly Osbourne	Twice
Jack Osbourne	Once

They did not end up like this by accident. They were all child stars. They got screwed up; where were their parents? Where were their parents when they'd come home drunk, stoned or both at 2am from clubbing with their "friends"? Where were they when the fame was gone and the calls stopped coming? Why weren't they being parents, saying no when needed? Were they too blinded by fame or money? Living vicariously through their children?

Lindsay Lohan's mother Dina has said that she is Lindsay's friend. She shouldn't be. She should be her mother and tell her no. Instead, she is riding on her daughter's coattails searching for fame. She went to visit Lindsay in rehab, along with a camera crew. What the hell? Times like these, a license for parenthood makes sense.

Does the player exist
In any human endeavour
Who's been known to resist
Sirens of fame and possessions ?
They will destroy you, not rivals, not age, not success

--Endgame from Chess