to sign autographs. Horrified fans watched as the driver slammed on his brakes, stopping 5 feet short of the actress. The cabbie and his shaken passengers idled for several minutes, staring as the carefree Lohan communed with her admirers.
Eventually, she found her way back to the Ziegfeld Theater, where she faced a new threat: reporters grilling her under hot lights about her partying. Naturally, they brought up that letter in which "Georgia Rule" producer James Robinson warned she'd be fired if she missed another day of production. "I knew that I did something wrong," she admitted.
"I took care of that. It was blown out of proportion." We asked her mother, Dina, about that News of the World claim that a video captures her daughter snorting cocaine - and about The National Enquirer's claim that Lindsay takes tabs of Ecstasy imprinted with a little blue Smurf.
"We don't read the tabloids," Dina said. "There's so much fabrication. We all live in glass houses, and if you don't know somebody, you really don't know the truth.
" Robinson said, "I started out being p-d off [at Lindsay], but it worked great. hellip; From that day on, she didn't miss any time. .
.. She is not a little bitch, she's a nice, decent person [and] a fantastic actress.
She just likes to stay out late." Garry Marshall, "Georgia Rule's" director (and ex-Daily News copy boy), said: "When they're young, they don't listen right away. [But] we ended up great friends.
" After the screening, everybody headed to the China Club. There, between trips to the bathroom, Lindsay showed Jane Fonda how to get down, Lohan style. "Let's dance!
" the 20-year-old told the 69-year-old as the speakers pumped out hip hop. And though she plays the grandmother of Lohan's wild-child character, Fonda still shows the benefits of "feeling the burn" and shook her booty impressively. Fonda also agreed that Linds is fundamentally a good kid.
"We were on schedule, we were on budget, everybody got along," she told us. "It was fun." Rarely do worlds collide so hilariously as they did Tuesday at Time magazine's celebration of our planet's 100 "most influential" people, held at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Where else can you find Henry Kissinger applying the charm that once won over Jill St. John to "Ugly Betty" actress America Ferrera? Where else can you hear film mogul Harvey Weinstein explaining to his girlfriend, designer Georgina Chapman, that Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel "was in a concentration camp"?
Presidential hopeful John Edwards found common ground with Grammy winner John Mayer on the green movement. "We have to sell green to people in a way that grabs their attention quickly," said Mayer. Mayer's girlfriend, Jessica Simpson, avoided attention by sneaking in late (and choosing a gown with a much higher neckline than that number she wore to Monday's Met gala.
) Besides performances by Mayer and Senegal's Youssou N'Dour, the evening saw the influential toast those who influenced them. Mayor Bloomberg remembered Boston Celtics coach Red Auerbach, who "won the right way"; cancer-stricken Elizabeth Edwards told of Toshiko Saeki, a Hiroshima-scarred geisha who taught her serenity; and anchor Brian Williams recalled that when he met Walter Cronkite, "I expected him to be in black and white."
Arnold Schwarzenegger give a moment's thought to Paris Hilton's plea that he reduce her jail sentence? The Hilton family might feel the Gov owes them. Our review of campaign contributions shows that her grandpa, W.
Barron Hilton, and Hilton Hotels gave a total of $59,600 to Arnold's campaigns between Sept. 3, 2003, and May 9, 2006. Schwarzenegger's press secretary, Aaron McLear, tells us: "The governor makes decisions on what he believes is in the best interest of the people of California," not the Hiltons.
But McLear says they have made no formal petition to Arnold, adding, "There are legal remedies for her to pursue before the governor would become involved in this." Meanwhile, Paris has swapped lawyers, ditching Howard Weitzman for Richard Hutton, a specialist in DUI cases. Hutton yesterday issued a statement in which Paris said, "I am ready to face the consequences of violating probation.
No one is above the law. I do not expect to be treated better than anyone else who violated probation. However, my hope is that I will not be treated worse.
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hellip; I cannot allow my personal circumstances to distract them from the business." One insider said the "nail in his coffin" was yesterday's L.A.
Times report that, in 1991, HBO paid at least $400,000 to Sasha Emerson, "a female subordinate with whom Albrecht was romantically involved, after she alleged that he shoved and choked her." Deadlinehollywood.com's Nikki Finke reported "allegations of other incidents - at least two.
" We hear Albrecht's boss, Jeff Bewkes, was the lever behind his ouster. Says one exec: "With the Time-Warner stockholders meeting a few weeks away, we had to resolve this fast."
" While Crystal deals with his battle with cancer, Mitchell Fink's "The Last Days of Dead Celebrities" remains the definitive chronicle of the excitable boy's exit strategy (which included regular trysts with mistress Susan Jaffy). Fink's book, featuring 15 star departures, is just out in paperback.
Our spy explains that Cruz was at Kravitz's place on April 28, but she brought Josh Hartnett and the pair were "all over each other in front of [Kravitz] all night."
"I'm so over the 'Sopranos,'" he whispered to a tablemate. "I wouldn't even waste using my camera on him, even with him sitting right there." Meanwhile, "Sopranos" castmates Vincent Pastore and John Ciarcia hit Vic Angelos in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
, where they were appearing in a Beyonce video.
" Guess they didn't listen.
Reid
kicked back at the listening party for Fabolous' new CD here in NYC.
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