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Lindsay Lohan Nudie Pics a Huge Hit, But Bring Down Mag's Web Site
Well, New York Magazine's 'Playboy'-esque foray into nudie pics has been incredibly successful. This week's photos of the completely naked, barely-legal Lindsay Lohan have garnered the print magazine plenty of attention, not to mention the NYMag Web site, which got more traffic than it could handle than it could handle.
The star of 'Herbie Fully Loaded' and Disney's misguided remake of 'The Parent Trap' shed her garments to recreate Marilyn Monroe's last nude photo shoot, which has come to be known as 'The Last Sitting.' The images were shot by Bert Stern, who created the original photo shoot with Monroe back in 1962. The be-freckled, former red-head generated so much Web traffic for the magazine that for a while on Monday the site was completely inaccessible.
According to Forbes and Portfolio.com, the New York magazine site -- which published a slide show of the photo shoot, as well as some outtakes -- received 40 million views over the first two days that it was up (around 2,000 percent more than usual). Meanwhile, the magazine got 500 more subscription requests than it usually gets in a week. To boot, Forbes is reporting that Bert Stern was paid a standard fee for doing the shoot, and Lohan apparently did the shoot for nothing (which is a whole lot cheaper than the figures some celebrity publications pay for images of stars). So it looks like New York magazine really made a good deal here.
There are two lessons to be learned here. First, the Web can still help bring some business to beleagured print magazines, especially if you choose a lusted-after starlet to pose nude. Second, if you're going to post pictures of starlets' nipples, then you need to invest in some extra capacity so your Web site isn't brought to its knees.
Still, those are some pics, no?
From Portfolio, Forbes, New York Observer, and New York.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Evelyn said 1:17PM on 2-22-2008
She is marvelous
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Tracy said 2:21PM on 2-22-2008
Those photos seem to be a joke on Lindsay. The styling is awful. Look at Marilyn and then look at Lindsay. What is that ratty curly yellow wig on LiLo's head? Nothing like the short straight platinum locks on Marilyn. And the lighting is harsh. It gives young Lindsay an unattractive edge. And let's face it, there's something bulldogish and unattractice about her naked body. These photos absolutely lack the vulnerability of Marilyn. I see Lilo as more of a Russ Meyer type gal.
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Brenda said 6:01PM on 2-23-2008
Lilo is way off base. She is no comparison to Marily Monroe. Marily is a legend. Lilo is just
a sleezy looking young girl trying to recreate
someone she is not!!!!!
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Nick Riordan said 3:49PM on 2-22-2008
I couldn't agree more. Lindsay Lohan can't hold a candle to the real thing--Marilyn Monroe. She looks very bad in this shoot. If I was Lohan, I'd feel pretty bad about the quality of the pictures and her near-total lack of appeal in them. Yuck.
This is just one more strike against the girl's judgment, which was already questionable at best. The culture is going to heck in a handbasket, and the dumb twits in Hollywood are leading the charge.
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Tricia said 8:03PM on 2-24-2008
I will NEVER look at another New York Magazine again. What a smutty piece of trash to show a barely legal tramp buck naked. It's trash like Lindsay Lohan that set women back another 50 years along with the magazine that exploited her.
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Christina said 8:15PM on 2-24-2008
i love how everyone keeps mentioning the "barely legal" part...she's been legal for three years now, people. by using that term it's just trying to attract the sleazeballs who like to look at young, naked girls. i agree that she has got nothing on marilyn monroe and that her pics are pretty trashy, but let's not make it trashier than it needs to be.
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angel said 8:31PM on 2-24-2008
Odd is it not? That the pictures ARE sub par and yet the site had that many hits it was inaccessible.
And the pics really are bad. There is nothing sexual about them and there is nothing sexual about Lilo. Marilyn had IT.
Maybe we all LOVED MARILYN so much that we were hoping for a reincarnation ? I know I was : (
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Mary said 8:41PM on 2-24-2008
If you think Lindsay is such trash, then don't look.
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Vahn said 8:57PM on 2-24-2008
I've said it before and I will say it again.She looks dirty and nasty all the time.I don't mean nasty as in a tease,I mean she looks like she smells.Sorry,but thats just the way I see her.
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marknew91 said 9:04PM on 2-24-2008
I think the pictures were sweet, and made her look very sexy and pretty.
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just saying said 9:13PM on 2-24-2008
I can't believe we have men that are actually commenting on the hair and make-up of the photos.What? are you kidding me? what difference does it make? these are two gorgeous females. why should what they look like matter to most normal, straight men? they are both most desired in the " i will do you" department!!!!!
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Ed said 9:19PM on 2-24-2008
Lindsay did an alright job recreating this shoot. Just remember it wasn't her idea to do this shoot she just followed her managers advise by doing it. Besides nobdy could ever replace our Marlyn.
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jwalker04 said 9:25PM on 2-24-2008
I think she looked great.I seen nothing sexual or distasteful.We all thought Marilyn looked great in her day and years from now they will say Lindsey looked great.People sure are quick to judge the people they are lea;ous of.
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Kevin said 9:28PM on 2-24-2008
I don't remember Marilyn having all those freckles, crooked teeth, or heroin-induced trance in her eyes
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Richard said 9:33PM on 2-24-2008
Marilyn Monroe was the same piece of crap back in the day as Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are now. She was a drunk, drug abuser, she was a major whore and really was not a very good actor or singer. I am sure there are more comparisons that can be made but I think this really covers it.
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Fred said 9:35PM on 2-24-2008
Lindsay is the most beautiful woman in Hollywood at this time! She is just in the wrong crowd with a lot of muchers and hangers on.
Good luck Lindsay
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kendra said 9:40PM on 2-24-2008
I think LiLo didnt do a bad job, but I think that Scarlett Johanson, Gwen Stefani, or Christina Aguilara could have done a better job, with LiLo's recent decline I think the public has a skewed opinion on the photo's
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wolfram1946@aol.com said 10:01PM on 2-24-2008
Boy ,do we have a bunch of zelloise woman out here tonight,most of you out there only wished you could look only half as good as lindsy,stop bitchen, hit the Gym and work off your Lardass.
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ken said 10:07PM on 2-24-2008
GROSS! She is flat-out nasty...
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