Can't We All Just Get Along?

Oct 26, 07:42 AM

Current Headlines: Lohan's 21-year-old daughter, Lindsay - star of "Mean Girls," "Freaky Friday" and other films - has said her father's behavior and her parents' divorce have caused her to act out. Michael and his estranged wife, Dina, settled their long-simmering divorce in August, months after he left a New York state prison where he served almost two years for drunken driving and other charges.

He reunited with Lindsay in September after a 31/2-year estrangement. She had entered a drug and alcohol treatment center the previous month .

Does Lohan blame himself for Lindsay's troubles?

"Absolutely. How can I not? I mean, we lead by example," Lohan said in an interview with AP Television News, released Thursday.

He entered a Christian-based drug and rehabilitation center in West Babylon, N.Y., after he was released from prison in March.

Lohan had repeatedly said Lindsay needed the same kind of treatment.

"I made a commitment when I was in there to God and to myself that, when I got out, I was going to do God's work, and I was going to share with other people what I've been through and how God changed my life," Lohan said.

He is now a spokesman for GodMen, which holds events designed to help Christian men renew their faith.

Lohan said he doesn't care if people question the sincerity of his religious convictions.

"I've had such an effect on my family and my daughter Lindsay, and I want to show them through my example that you can right the wrongs and turn it around," he said.

Lohan added: "And I hope that the grace that has been given to me can work through my family, and that we can come back to that same place in our hearts." LINDSAY LOHAN'S FATHER says he wants to patch things up with his family. "Reconciliation and redemption - across the board," says Michael Lohan, now a born-again Christian. "Just all of us getting right with God." 'Beauty is not just a white girl' Queen Latifah says the definition of beauty is changing.

"Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades," the 37-year-old rapper-actress tells People magazine in its latest issue, on newsstands now. "It's good for regular girls because the meter (for beauty) has been a slim white girl."

In Hollywood, she says, "We've definitely gotten better with body type. It used to be just me! Now with Jennifer Hudson's success and America Ferrera, I got some successors to take the reins on this whole bodylicious thing."

From wire reports

Latifah describes herself as voluptuous - "definitely curvaceous. ... I think I'm normal compared to the statistics. This is a big country nowadays."

The star of "Chicago" and other films says she had elective breast-reduction surgery in 2003 to alleviate years of back and shoulder pain.

"I didn't want to get it. But I had lost 25 pounds and my breasts didn However, "I didn't quite want them to be this small," she laughs.

Before surgery, Latifah says she was "an E or an F cup. I was pretty big. Now I Latifah says she isn't interested in more surgery.

"There are people who love (plastic surgery) and want to cut and chop anything. I'm like, 'Y'all are crazy!'"

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On the Net:

Queen Latifah:

http://www.queenlatifah.com/

People:

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Spears avoids trial in hit-and-run case Britney Spears is no longer facing hit-and-run charges since she paid off the other car's driver in the Aug. 6 fender-bender, but she still has to deal with one count of driving without a license, a Los Angeles court commissioner ruled Thursday.

A charge of driving without a license was not dismissed, and a pretrial hearing was scheduled for Nov. 26. The commissioner accepted a not-guilty plea entered on Spears' behalf.

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