The most important thing about Grindhouse...

...Is not about anything you could read elsewhere, the fanboy take or perplexing stodgy A.O. Scott take or J.D. sugarhigh! take. No, there is ONE and only ONE most important thing about Grindhouse.

Tarantino references Lindsay Lohan.

Let me say this again. Tarantino. References. Lindsay. Lohan.

Look, I've got a lot of problems with some of what Tarantino has done (although I gotta say his contribution, Death Proof, made me want to revisit Kill Bill somewhat, just to make sure it -- sort of -- made up for some of what I saw as problematic ideas happening in that one). But he thinks twice and three times and fifty times about what words, particularly what references, are going to come out of his characters' mouths. You're not getting a tossed-off poorly thought-through slight with Tarantino. You are getting a reference in bold and italics. This is not a guy who just tosses celebrities up for the hell of it.

I just can't stress this enough. The line is almost a throwaway; one of the characters is LiLo's make-up artist and says something about the make-up on the shoot. Totally innocuous, no social commentary. The ONLY point is that Lindsay Lohan is in the film-within-a-film being discussed by the characters. (He also includes a Daryl Hannah reference in the same passage of dialogue, suggesting that the "director" of this unnamed film is Tarantino himself. Which would explain why he gets to date Rosario Dawson and "jam" Daryl Hannah's stand-in [using QT's own vernacular from his '95ish SNL appearance here].)

I think this is a pretty strong sign that QT wants to work with Lindsay Lohan. He's spotted her. He wants to give her her CRED ROLE.

The only info I can find on this is from MTV:

But here's the weird part: Lohan isn't actually in the movie at all. "[We] talk about her, but she's not in it," clarified Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who co-stars with Dawson in Tarantino's half of the movie. "[Dawson] plays Lindsay Lohan's makeup artist, and I play her co-star in a fictional movie." Even weirder is the fact that neither star could confirm whether Lohan even knows her name is being used in the film.

"I know [Lohan] met Quentin on a few occasions, but I don't know if he's actually told her about it," Winstead said. With or without the Mean Girls star's consent, Grindhouse will open April 6. ...

I think this is exciting. The kicker would be if he also realized the genius of her music and incorporated it into the film somehow, or into another film. A man can dream...