What is an unemployed actress to do while she awaits her trial for a stolen $2,500 necklace? Concern herself with more important matters like dropping her last name, of course!

Lindsay Lohan keeps the tabloid spotlight on herself with the announcement -- via her mother, Dina -- that she will be dropping her last name. Madonna, Beyonce, and Prince do it, sure, but isn't it only acceptable if you're a musical artist (or... Fabio)?

"Lindsay is dropping the Lohan and just going by Lindsay... Plus, me and [younger daughter] Ali will be officially changing our last names back to my maiden name, Sullivan," Dina explained.

A source close to the family sheds some light on the rationale behind the name game.

"It's a way for them all to start over. No one in the family want anything to do with Lindsay's father [Michael Lohan] anymore and that includes sharing a last name."

So what does the ever-hopeful Papa Lohan have to say about all this hubbub regarding contempt for his surname?

"I don't think it's true at all. I would never imagine any of my kids changing their name, especially Lindsay."

While she can legally change it, Lindsay's grown up in the fairly permanent world of the internet age, which has held on so dearly to those unflattering, drunken photos of her. There's also the fact that changing her name is not going to keep Michael Lohan away from the tabloids for the rest of her life.