I had no idea she was going to be on, and just watched it like I usually do. I agree it was a great interview. I read blogs today that teased their story about this with something like "Dave makes Lohan cry". I did not read the body of those articles - I assume when the reader clicks through they are informed that he made her cry by being sensitive and supportive, not mean-spirited.
It was not clear to me how genuine she was being when she resists talking about the rehab by saying "we did not go over this at the pre-interview". It is possible they did go over it, and impossible that she really thought they were only going to talk about her epic performance on Scream 5 and whatever the Charlie Sheen TV show is called. I thought Dave was very fair to her, and let her know what anyone who has watched his show for a while already knows, which is that any celeb who has embarrassing issues and is willing to have something approaching a real conversation about them with him will end up looking good, and getting a big thumb's up and approving sign-off from him. Any such celeb who comes on and tries to weasel their way through the interview is going to get hammered. She eventually took the relatively high road, and Dave showered her with his best wishes and respect, and that is what made her cry. I don't really know her that well - I saw Mean Girls, and her SNL appearances, and I guess the Praire Home Companion. I don't particularly like or dislike her, but I like her better than I did after last night. On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Joe Hass <hassgoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > The one thing that really rubbed me the wrong way about being at the > taping of The Late Show is the rather adamant insistance that you laugh at > everything. Seriously: they have an Alec Baldwin video at the start that > basically says the audience should laugh at anything they think might be > funny. I understand why they do that, but the problem with laying that at > the start is that you wind up getting these moments where Dave's trying to > be serious, and the audience keeps making nervous chuckles because they've > been trained to believe that they should laugh at anything that even looks > like it might be funny. That kept happening during Dave's interview of > Lindsey last night, and I kept wanting to reach through time and tell the > folks in the audience to shut the hell up. > > Interestingly, the only reason I knew Lindsey Lohan was going to be on > Letterman was a promo during the NCAA Basketball Championship Game on > Monday night, and the only reason I was watching that was because I was > hosting trivia at a bar and had to work around the game. For some reason, I > remembered that this afternoon and went to look for the video. > > It was a surprisingly powerful interview. Letterman knew he could've gone > in a certain direction (and had the ammo right there at the desk). The file > photo of Lohan on the old show as "Things Found On The D Train" was great. > I think he liked the fact that Lohan refused to go into detail on the rehab > issue despite him going back to that well a couple times, and he decided to > change tacks, which caught Lohan off-guard. The more honest he became, the > more she seemed to drop her guard. When he complemented her about showing > up despite being how much he'd serve up on her, the audience's sustained > applause went on for a good 15 seconds until Dave (quite irritated), told > the audience, "Alright, alright! That's enough!" > > These were two flawed people, and Letterman decided he was going to go > ahead and peel back a little more than he normally would (the reference to > psychiatry, which was followed by Dave grinning into the camera, was rather > amusing). Which made the whole thing just a little more special. It > reminded me of when Teri Garr was on the show, and he came over to help > her, and you just saw a different Dave: the one that made most of us fall > for him. > > The one question I have: I wonder how the decision to not have her come > out with a price tag on her dress went down, since Dave lit up like a kid > on Christmas when she told him. Did the staff really run out of time and > weren't able to get to Letterman in time, or did they decide not to? I > remember reading about Penn & Teller's appearances on Late Night a few > years back and how Letterman told Robert Morton that he didn't want to know > what they were going to do, only that they had his permission to do > anything. > > Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEF53jCmL3c > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... 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