Skip to content, or skip to search.  in the magazine   All
photos: Cass Bird  Ever since we spent a day running around New
York with U.K. pop star Lily Allen, we've been trying to figure
out what makes her so much more tolerable than Lindsay Lohan,
America's version of the extremely talented drunk girl with a
lothario father and a love of Chanel. Yes, part of it's
cultural. The British don't seem so scandalized as we are by
underage intoxication (Amy Winehouse, for example, wrote a hit
song about not going to rehab). So Allen comes off sounding less
guilty and damaged than messy and fun.   1 p.m. Eating chicken
satay at Café Gitane  On the biggest difference between America
and England: "Here they get their snatches waxed. I get a strip,
a runway strip. I don't think I could get it done in England.
They stare at it. They spend ages doing it. It's like, 'Get it
over and fucking done with!'"  On British versus American
paparazzi: "I get really fucking angry when I get a parking
ticket, and in England they can't