Fame and bellyaching about lost privacy go together like Brangelina and poopie-pantsed tykes, so it's no surprise that a pair of slumping starlets have gotten their gripe on in recent days. Here's the latest:

Lindsay Lohan, 21, who has yet to figure out that we can't root for her big comeback if she doesn't actually go away, let out a fine whine Thursday night when she was surrounded by paparazzi while exiting Los Angeles hot spot Goa.

Lindsay works the crowd at Wango Tango on Saturday.

In video obtained by TMZ.com, the guidance-needing, alleged mink coat-pilfering actress, sporting her de rigueur black leggings and toting a bottle of water, is seen shielding her face and hollering for security while sitting in the passenger seat of a Porsche.

"She just went nuts," a photog tells the New York Daily News. "Screaming nasty things."

Her reaction prompted one of the lensmen to ask, "Why you acting like that, girl?" a sensible question given that she could avoid such encounters simply by staying in.

(Another reason to embrace her inner homebody: The New York Post reports she was recently spied "crying her eyes out" at a club after a supposed squabble with suctioned-on BFF Samantha Ronson.)

But just a day later, Lohan remained calm as she was surrounded by about 50 photographers who turned up -- at her invitation, according to the Daily News -- on Robertson Boulevard to snap her posing in a publicity-generating photo shoot for her new line of leggings.

She then made her way -- camera contingent in tow -- to the lunchtime look-at-me spot, The Ivy.

(Interested in sheathing yourself in LiLo-approved Lycra? Try to avoid the pair that comes with kneepads or people might get the wrong idea.)

Meanwhile, Lindsay's bonus- and vacation-needing publicist has been working overtime to tamp down talk of the aforementioned fur-snatching and the fizzling of two planned big-screen roles.

"This is crazy!" her rep laments to E!'s Marc Malkin, as she brushes off allegations that the starlet not only walked off with a college student's $12,000 pelt but also swiped clothes from a model's closet during a party several months back. "The bombing of Lindsay has to stop. She is in a good place right now. Why can't everyone leave her alone?"

Unfortunately, the big-screen powers-that-be may be doing just that. Lohan, who is set to guest-star on several episodes of "Ugly Betty," is reportedly no longer attached to the indie drama "Manson Girls" and the Jack Black comedy "Ye Olde Times," a parting of ways her flack chalks up to scheduling conflicts.

Speaking of scheduling, Perez Hilton claims Lindsay turned up so late for her hosting gig at Saturday's Wango Tango concert in Irvine, Calif., that organizers were worried she had bailed on them.

Turns out Lohan isn't the only underemployed actress complaining about the pitfalls of stardom.

Unbecoming candids can't compare to the eye-popping horror of Mischa's recent Pepe Le Pew-meets-Hefty bag ensemble.

Mischa Barton and her mouthpiece are doing damage control over photos showing her sunbathing topless in Australia -- pictures that play up an apparent bit of cellulite (not that there's anything wrong with that).

"Those photos are doctored," her rep maintains to the New York Daily News. "I'm not saying she's perfect, nobody is. But they've given a 22-year-old woman the legs and bottom of an 80-year-old."

The spokeswoman says to compare the vacation snaps, which the London Daily Mail ran with the unkind headline, "Blight of the Cellulite," to a series of beach pics taken last month in Los Angeles.

"Did she develop all that cellulite in a couple of weeks?" rails the publicist. "There's a lot you can do with Photoshopping."

The Down Under paparazzo who took the photos tries to convince the paper that he wasn't aiming "to publicly embarrass her with nudity or health issues or body image issues," adding that it's "a shame that publications tend to highlight an issue that is not fair to a young girl ... However, sometimes these are the things that sell pictures."

Uh-huh.

Barton, who should be commended for displaying curves instead of the pronounced ribcage from her not-too-distant past, said last week she's never "abhorred anyone more" than the privacy-invading shutterbug, although she displays a bit more equanimity in a sit-down with the current issue of OK!.

"Every woman has cellulite," she tells the mag. "I just feel like the photographers try to get the most unflattering shots ... I went up to him and said, 'Do you understand that what you're doing is so low and that you cause trouble and make people upset? I haven't had a vacation in forever and you're ruining that for me. And this is why actresses can't relax and live normal lives.'"

According to Mischa, he "was like, 'Oh well. I'm going to sell it for as much money as I can get.' That kind of attitude about not giving actors or women or anyone their personal privacy is what makes people turn strange. I've never claimed to have a perfect body, but it is what it is."

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