Lohan, continued: Possible real tears

Was that Lindsay crying?

During shooting of the "Prairie Home Companion" movie, someone who looked like Lindsay Lohan was observed in tears while on her cell phone, near St. Paul's Fitzgerald Theater.

"It was last Wednesday, July 13, around 1:50 p.m. I'm 100 percent sure it was her. She was wearing her Kabbalah string," said Courtney McCarthy. "She was on her cell phone and she looked flustered about something, and she was really crying. When she saw that my friend [Maggie] was taking a picture of her, she got kind of like upset. She put her hand over her face and turned away."

Of course, one of the best ways to avoid being seen crying is not to do it on a city street. There were trailers on the set, not to mention rest rooms inside the Fitzgerald, where Lohan could have had a good cry. Perhaps being 19 packs such an emotional charge that one can't help bursting into tears?

"No," said a laughing McCarthy, a 19-year-old Minnesotan who's a sophomore at California's Chapman University. "I don't have the pressures that she does. I'm not sure what she was crying about, but you can make it anything that you want. I don't think she's crying about [her breakup with 'That '70s Show' star Wilmer Valderrama]. Maybe she didn't get along with people or she just found out news about her Dad," who has been a source of family embarrassment.

Lake Ho-begone?

Can't you just see Garrison Keillor wearing "A Prairie Ho Companion" T-shirt?

MNspeak.com founder and prez Rex Sorgatz came up with the message on this T. "I've got friends [on the set], no one really high up. They'll be fine with it," Sorgatz said.

But will Keillor and movie director Robert Altman find it funny?

"Well, actually, if they are not OK with it, then it would be hilarious if Garrison Keillor would come talk to me," Sorgatz said. "It would be the best thing that could happen to me."

MNspeak.com was the first to post the outdoor photo of Altman's hand resting on the back of Lindsay Lohan's milky left thigh during filming. I gave credit to thesuperficial.com, which was one of several websites to feature the photo, according to Sorgatz.

Who took the photo? "I can't reveal my sources," Sorgatz said. "I have friends who work on the set and they have befriended people who take photographs of people for a living. They sent them to me and they quickly showed up on some of the standard blogs, boards."

No redo for Enrico?

It's more likely we'll see **** Enrico, the 2nd Wind Exercise Equipment owner/pitchman, walking around a Minneapolis lake than strolling down an aisle. When recently asked how those remarriage plans were coming, Enrico announced that he was "Disengaged."

John C. Reilly seen

Alaina Budish e-mailed this: "We saw John C. Reilly and his wife and two kids at the Como Zoo [Monday] around 5:30 p.m. We did not approach him; we just wanted to let him enjoy his visit. It was him!" A Como Zoo spokester was not able to confirm but ...

Stephen Swenson and Barbara Smith, serving as second and third sources, e-mailed the same sighting. Am unable to confirm whether the woman with Reilly was a wife, a significant other, a nanny...

Muscling for mayor

Rough and tumble -- now there's a phrase most wouldn't associate with Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak or his DFL challenger, Hennepin County commish Peter McLaughlin.

But things reportedly got physical when the mayor filed for reelection.

John Blackshaw, who is working with the Rybak campaign, said: "The McLaughlin campaign is getting a little dirty in their trickery. They are showing up at our press conferences and today they showed up at the filing. They are very disruptive -- yelling, pushing people. It's quite unseemly."

Darin Broton of the McLaughlin camp, riposted: "The only thing they could be talking about is yesterday when the mayor filed, we had one staff member down there to give the mayor a letter from Peter asking for a debate. The only disturbance that happened is when the mayor's supporter threw our person around like a sack of potatoes. They were just hostile."

There was touching? "They physically touched him, pushed him to get him out of the way," Broton said. "Andy Pomroy" is the name of the human potato. "He did not go to the hospital," Broton said. So I don't know why Pomroy, who was not able to deliver his letter, has not called me.

Blackshaw also said they suspect McLaughlin operatives have been calling masquerading as members of the media: "I said, 'What was your name again?' and he said, Bill Wydickie and then he hung up."

When I asked him about it, Broton said, "What? No."

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