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Lohan: Hands off $, Dad
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lindsay Lohan says her father has no right to claim a share of her earnings.
"He didn't do anything for my career except go out and not come home at night," the 18-year-old actress-singer tells W magazine in its April issue, on newsstands Friday. "So I don't think he deserves anything. He doesn't even deserve my respect."
Michael Lohan's estranged wife, Dina, filed divorce papers in January. Lohan responded, saying he wants half of the 15 percent his daughter allegedly gives her mother -- a figure that could be $6 million to $7 million a year, his lawyer has said.
Lohan has also said he wants to do a reality TV show that would follow the family through the course of the divorce.
"As sick as it sounds, a reality show might help, actually," Lindsay Lohan told the magazine. "At least then people could get the truth."
Michael Lohan was arrested last month after a fiery car crash in the Long Island town of Syosset and was charged with driving while intoxicated. In December, he pleaded guilty to several charges, including assaulting a brother-in-law at a communion party, and was ordered into drug and alcohol treatment and therapy.
Lohan, 44, has said his headline-grabbing problems have helped -- not hurt -- his daughter's career.
In the magazine interview, Lindsay Lohan also weighed in on two issues much discussed in the tabloids -- her rapid physical maturity and her party-girl reputation.
"I'm young and I only got my boobs, like a year and a half ago, so of course they're going to look good. I love 'em," she said.
Of her "dancing-on-tables" reputation, Lohan said, "I go to clubs and everything, and if I hang out with Paris Hilton, I don't think that's a bad thing. She's a nice girl."
Von Trier's final cut
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Lars von Trier has cut a scene from his latest film that showed a donkey being butchered for food.
Von Trier said he cut the scene from "Manderlay" not because he thought it was cruel, but out of concern that it would draw attention away from the movie's political and social content.
"I feel that my conscience is clean in regard to animal welfare," the filmmaker said in a letter he sent to several Danish animal rights groups who had protested the scene.
His production company, Zentropa, said Thursday that the Danish director had received more than 300 letters from groups and individuals in the United States, Germany, Britain and Denmark about the scene, which was shot in Sweden last year.
"The charge made in many of the letters of killing a donkey 'for entertainment' is one that I refute on the grounds that such charges can only originate from ignorance of my films," he said.
"Manderlay," expected to be released this summer in Europe, is the second film in von Trier's trilogy about evil in small-town America during the Depression. The first, "Dogville," which starred Nicole Kidman, won much acclaim.
Pollster: Smits over Alda
UTICA, New York (AP) -- It's Jimmy Smits over Alan Alda in a landslide.
Pollster John Zogby, who often asks Americans who they think will be elected president, surveyed viewers of "The West Wing," asking which candidate they prefer for the NBC political drama's next president -- Democratic Rep. Matt Santos of Texas, played by Smits, or Republican Sen. Arnold Vinick of California, played by Alda.
The second term of Democratic incumbent President Josiah Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, is coming to an end on the show.
Smits' character leads Alda's character 44 percent to 28 percent among "West Wing" viewers contacted by computer for the interactive poll.
Vinick, it seems, has a gender problem.
"While he and Santos are tied among men, each getting 35 percent of the vote, Santos holds a commanding lead among women, where he outpolls Vinick 53 percent to 22 percent," Zogby said.
The poll was conducted February 18-25 and the results were based on the answers of 5,505 American adults nationwide who said they were viewers of the show. The poll has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 0.7 percentage points.
Boone honors Clooney
(CNN) -- It's well known that Rosemary Clooney was George Clooney's aunt. Not so well known is that the "Come On-a My House" singer, who died in 2002, was related by marriage to Debby Boone.
On a new album, "Reflections of Rosemary" (Concord), Boone pays tribute to her mother-in-law with a selection of songs that "tell stories of her personal and professional life," according to a press release.
Among the tunes: "Blue Skies," which Rosemary was known to sing to Boone's son Jordan; "Time After Time," for Clooney (and Boone's) admiration of Chet Baker; and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face."
Boone is co-hosting a tribute to Clooney, who Tony Bennett called "one of America's finest pop vocalists," at New York's Carnegie Hall June 20.
Boone is married to Gabriel Ferrer, Clooney's son by Jose Ferrer.
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Associated Press contributed to this report.
