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Lindsay Lohan says her dad is a “foul” man.

The actress is still trying to get over her father Michael Lohan’s intervention attempt earlier this month and insists his constant accusations she is abusing prescription drugs are false and disgraceful.

She said in an interview with KIIS-FM DJ JoJo Wright: “I think it’s just foul, some of the things that get said by my dad. No one should ever have to worry about their father saying those things publicly against them… it distracts from all the work that I’m doing.”

Lindsay has also hit out against her party girl reputation and insists she is just a young woman having fun.

The 23-year-old star said: “I don’t really pay attention to it all. It’s a very build-you-up-to-take-you-down industry. It’s not a crime to go out and have fun with your friends.”

Despite all the problems in her life, Lindsay – who was dropped from upcoming movie The Other Side in the last few days – is adamant things are going well for her.

She said: “I’m in a really good place.”

Former child star Lindsay has not appeared in a hit film since she had a bit part in Bobby in 2006. Her last movie, I Know Who Killed Me, in 2007 flopped.

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Playboy boss Hugh Hefner will veto any film about his amazing life unless “Iron Man” Robert Downey Jr. plays the lead. The tycoon is convinced Downey Jr. is the only actor who can play him on the big screen, and the publisher told the star just that when they met on the red carpet at the “Iron Man 2″ premiere in Los Angeles on Monday night. Hefner says, “I told him, ‘I couldn’t do better’.”

The Playboy boss admits he’s still waiting for the right screenplay, but the “Sherlock Holmes” star will get the call when the film is ready to go.

David Blackburn

There’s a fascinating story in the Guardian that diaries and poems written by Marilyn Monroe between 1952 and 1962 are to be published. The Guardian reports:

‘The previously unseen diary entries, musings and poems penned by the actor from her late teens until she apparently took her own life in 1962 at the age of 36, were first bequeathed to Monroe’s friend and acting teacher Lee Strasberg. He left them to his wife, Anna, when he died in 1982.As well as notes on her films and passages in which she pushes herself to improve her acting performances, Hodell, the US publisher, said, the young star saw fit to pencil in her planned decorations of her flat and a recipe for stuffing. She also devoted time to recording her thoughts on the art of the Italian Renaissance.

“She was a great reader and someone with real writing flair,” Hodell told the Associated Press. “There are fragments of poetry that are really quite beautiful, lines that stop you in your tracks.”’

Fragments, the title of the volume due to appear on bookshelves in October, will be published jointly by the Editions du Seuil in France and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States.

It’s an offensive cliché but that there must have been more to Marilyn Monroe than met the eye; come on, there must have been. Those that knew her attest that there was.

Alan Yentob suppressed his inner pseud momentarily whilst interviewing Arthur Miller to ask about the playwright’s marriage to Monroe. Miller was adamant, speaking in a direct, calm and low voice. Marilyn Monroe was troubled and troubling, but she was ‘scintillating and sharp, uninterested in stardom.’ The dual sense of frustrated intellect and vulnerability was conveyed in an atypical but arresting photograph of Monroe in quiet repose in her dressing room. It was taken by beatnik photographer Richard Avedon in the late 50s – I can’t find a reproduction but if you’ve seen it you’ll know which I mean. Monroe’s diaries will confirm that there was more, much more to her than a pout and 37-23-36.