Sacrilege - Lindsay Lohan In Talks To Play Elizabeth Taylor

When I first read Deadline.com's report that Lindsay Lohan was in talks to play Elizabeth Taylor I thought it must be Lindsay playing a role like in a Miami dinner theatre production of National Velvet where the actors have little wooden horses they ride on stage while the waiters are clearing the appetizers. This is pretty much the stage at where Lindsay's career is right now. Yes, I see what you are saying and you could make the case that she could do some community theatre in certain small towns.

So, imagine my horror when I read she was actually in talks to play Elizabeth. As in be her? Seriously? Granted this is just Lifetime and this is the same network who takes great pride in airing every Tori Spelling movie back to back to back in primetime, but still, it is Elizabeth Taylor and for the rest of time we will have to hear from Lindsay and Dina how Lindsay played Elizabeth Taylor after Hugh Hefner compared her to Marilyn Monroe and how come Lindsay does not have an Academy Award yet?

Deadline borrows this quote from Slate about how the two are alike in some ways.

“Both had domineering stage mothers, little semblance of a real childhood, fame from a young age, substance abuse issues, public emotional outpourings, and copious amounts of tabloid drama. The key difference, though, is that Elizabeth Taylor had a true record of achievement before she became the most notorious movie star in America.”