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The judge in Lindsay Lohan’s DUI case wants her a$$ in court. The problem? She’s in France and the Icelandic ash cloud may mean her return is no Cannes do.
Lohan’s presence is required in court on Thursday for a hearing to establish if she is in compliance with the terms of her ongoing probation for a DUI conviction.
It had been unclear whether Lindsay was required to be there in person. The judge said she is. If she’s not there, a bench warrant could be issued for her arrest.
Following a pair of DUI arrests in 2007, the 23-year-old was ordered to complete an 18-month alcohol education program or serve a suspended jail sentence.
Whether she’s complied with this is highly debatable.
Life is grand in Cannes for train wreck Lindsay Lohan.
Reports say Lindsay has slacked hard core when it comes to attending mandatory classes (partying like a madman won’t help her cause) and may end up jailed.
Clearly living in denial, Lohan flew out from New York on Friday and arrived in Nice, France on Sunday for the Cannes Film Festival. How long will she be there?
That may depend … on Mother Nature. Sources say she can’t get a flight to the U.S. because of the volcanic ash from Iceland hampering European airspace.
Airports all over the continent are jam-packed and it’s impossible to get a seat. Wonder how the volcanic ash excuse will play before LL’sa no-nonsense judge.
Treme
In its own way, the sudden death of Treme co-executive producer David Mills just days before the series premiere is a potent metaphor for the show itself.
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As the HBO drama’s cast and crew mourn Mills’ loss, they also celebrate him by continuing to work long days to wrap production on the first season of the show, which follows New Orleans residents as they attempt to rebuild their lives after Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent floods that wrecked the city when the levee system failed.
“Even in the wreckage of the flood, it only took a few months for the first second-line parade to be formed,” co-creator and executive producer Eric Overmyer tells TVGuide.com. “If you canceled Mardi Gras, it was giving up on the city. It wasn’t a question of having a party and being oblivious in the wreckage and the pain. It was a question of celebrating life in spite of all the adversity. That’s why we’ve thought about it a lot with the death of David Mills. That’s one of the things the show’s about.”
Overmyer created the show with David Simon, with whom Overmyer previously worked on Homicide and Simon’s magnum opus, The Wire, perhaps the most critically lauded show in decades. Devotees of Simon are burning with anticipation. But this is not The Wire: New Orleans.
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“On The Wire, we had the police chiefs and we had the mayor. We could look at institutions from the inside-out,” Overmyer says. “In Treme, what we wanted to do is just take a group of ordinary people and explore the way they encounter the police, city hall when you’ve got a problem. We’ve got ordinary people dealing with all that stuff, but from ground level.”
Among those ordinary people are a fiery Tulane English professor (John Goodman) and his civil-liberties attorney wife (Melissa Leo), a part-time DJ and jazz aficionado (Steve Zahn) and his part-time girlfriend and chef (Kim Dickens), a Mardi Gras Indian Chief looking to regroup his displaced tribe (Clarke Peters) and a bar owner torn between staying in New Orleans or settling in Baton Rouge (Khandi Alexander).
Music is what anchors the series in New Orleans. The show takes its name (pronounced treh-MAY, by the way) from a neighborhood known for its jazz roots. The show’s musical ringleader is trombonist Antoine Battiste (Wire alum Wendell Pierce), who will play any gig he can find because he always seems light on cab fare now that he’s moved to the outskirts of town.
“He’s the heart of the show — that character, that working musician who struggles from gig to gig and carries New Orleans culture,” Overmyer says. “He is underappreciated, is always living hand-to-mouth. He’s emblematic. In spite of living hand-to-mouth, he has those moments of joy when making music.”
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Simple joy is another thing that sets this show apart from The Wire, whose blistering screed against the establishment was presented in the bleakest of fashions. “The characters are high, low and in between. They’ll have their ups and downs, but Treme will never be as bleak as The Wire just because there’s music in it,” Overmyer says. “The basic meaning of the show is about the human will to reconstitute one’s life and one’s culture in the face of real adversity. New Orleans, for all its problems, it always had moments of joy.”
Alexander says she’s seen that truth overwhelmingly while shooting the series in New Orleans. “You can feel an uprising and strengthening,” she says. “The people were never defeated — brokenhearted, yes, but never, ever defeated.”
But the show also revels in moments of anger, particularly through Goodman’s character, who points the finger at the government. Critics of the show accuse Simon and Overmyer of using that character to politicize the show. Overmyer, who’s lived in New Orleans for many years, says that’s just not true.
“John Goodman’s character speaks for most New Orleans,” Overmyer says. “I wrote a lot of that stuff, but I’m just channeling everything I hear from my neighbors and my friends. People talk about the federal flood and the federally induced catastrophe, and as far as New Orleans is concerned, that’s fact, not an opinion. If we didn’t have that character, people in New Orleans would go, ‘You’re not telling the truth. Where’s the person calling out the Army Corps of
Jesse James
Nearly two weeks after publicly apologizing to wife Sandra Bullock and his children for “poor judgement,” Jesse James has entered a treatment facility, People reports.
“Jesse checked himself into a treatment facility to deal with personal issues,” his rep said in a statement to the magazine. “He realized that this time was crucial to help himself, help his family and help save his marriage.”
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It is unknown what James, 40, is seeking treament for or where the facility is located.
Since In Touch first published a cover story about James’ reported extramarital affair with Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, three other women have come forward claiming to have had affairs with the former Monster Garage star. Bullock, who won an Oscar earlier this month, has since abruptly pulled out of two European premieres for The Blind Side.
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James has three children from a previous marriage and has been married to Bullock since 2005.
E-mails to James’ rep were not immediately returned.