(CNN) -- Remember when Lindsay Lohan was the next Ann-Margret? Or Elizabeth Taylor? Or even Marilyn Monroe? While that last comparison is still being bandied about -- for better or for worse -- today there is more buzz about "will she stay clean?" and "can she stay out of trouble?" than her talent. Lohan's latest 90-day rehab stint, which ended this week, was taken as an alternative to three months of jail time for two misdemeanor convictions and a shoplifting probation violation finding in March. Lindsay Lohan the actress seems to have been replaced by Lindsay Lohan the perpetual comeback kid.
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Lindsay Lohan has new projects coming up, but critics savage new movie
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A celebrity expert questions whether she can pull off diverse characters
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Her "Canyons" director wrote that she is more talented than Marilyn Monroe
"I think Lohan has more natural acting talent than Monroe did, but, like @placeholder, her weakness is her inability to fake it," he wrote.