Lindsay Lohan has been watching her movie career wither and die after all of her addiction problems this year. But she knows her face on the cover of a magazine will move copies, so why not help it along and sell staged photographs of her going to a recording studio — “in full hair and makeup” — to generate a little extra cash?

Because she did a whole interview with Radar magazine earlier this year about how the paparazzi goes too far, and posed provocatively with a gun over the body of a photographer. Even then, she equivocated to Nylon magazine:

“I wouldn’t ever want them to not take my picture,” she says. “I’d be worried. I’d be like, ‘Do people not care about me?’”

Clearly the media needs to revive that flagging affection. Or else.