Lindsay Lohan Still Poor, Jobless

Lindsay Lohan is so poor (How poor is she?), she's so poor we hear she's considering movie roles that Tara Reid turned down. (The preceding joke was a tribute to the return of late-night TV in the midst of the writer's strike. Thank you, Jay Leno, for leaving the real comedy to people who earn about as much as a Burger King night manager.) No, seriously, she's so poor she's begging her friends for money. The New York Daily News reports:

Lindsay Lohan's rocky rehab continues to hurt her bottom line.

A pal of the cash-strapped actress tells us she has been openly asking friends for spending money.

A separate source tell us Ariva – the quit-smoking tobacco lozenge she has been unofficially promoting – paid her a sum in the mid-five figures this week.

Officially, Ariva reps have denied it is paying Lohan – possibly because of all the recent paparazzi pics of her smoking.

Lohan has been back in the headlines for her antics on the Italian island of Capri, where she was honored during the new year holiday at the annual film festival. One Italian journalist told the photo agency X17 that the supposedly sober starlet ran up a 500-euro ($736) bar tab in one evening.

Wow. That's a lot of Shirley Temples. That's, what, about $54 for every maraschino cherry? Imagine how much actual vodka would cost.