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On one hand, we're right there with the folks challenging the ugly, disproportionate media scrutiny faced by gay celebrity couples. Seriously! Why shouldn't the likes of Courtenay Semel enforce their B-list bedhopping privileges with relish, and why should marrying material like Sam Ronson get a bum rap for being a no-good, disc-spinning, Lohan-using exploitation artist just because her girlfriend happens to drop by her increasingly well-compensated DJ gigs? On the other hand, now we aren't sure we really wanted the Ronson profile in the new issue of Angeleno Magazine to answer that last question:

She began working a majority of the nights each week for club owners who, she admits, were at least as interested in hiring her for her enviably loyal social circle as for her facility with her Technics. ... “Basically, they didn’t care if I was a good DJ,” she’s admitted. “They just wanted my friends at their club.” ... All of which has, during the last few years, inexorably led to her current pole position in L.A.’s velvet-rope after-dark scene via high-profile residencies and one-offs at, among others, Area, Hyde, Goa and Teddy’s, where gigs typically bring in between one and two grand per night, as well as a slew of increasingly remunerative corporate-sponsored private parties (paying upwards of $10,000 a gig) for the likes of BCBG, PlayStation and Verizon. “The response was off the charts; we got tons of press,” one East Coast club investor, Randy Greenstein, recently said of a series of back-to-back special event gigs he secured in late July. “We got very lucky that Lindsay came with her. We booked her two months ago, right before the news broke that they were sort of together, and even then there were nine other offers for her for the same date.”

"Lucky"? Maybe so. What you see is in fact what you get — a "cross-your-fingers gamble" for promoters and sponsors who bank on the Lohan sighting that will put their events over the top. And if they split? We're confident Ronson should make do either way; Semel seems to have bounced back with screeching resiliency following her own Lohan daliiance. And at least she'll never face Jodie Foster's steep predicament. Or will she? Anyway, sorry. We'll lay down our magnifying glass now.