Lohan's mom nabs parenting award

Dina Lohan tried valiantly to keep the subject on motherhood last night at Carlyle on The Green in Bethpage State Park as she was swarmed by a score of videographers, camera people and reporters asking about her daughter Lindsay's foibles.

Lohan, there to accept a " Long Island Top Mom" award at the Mingling Mom's "Mom's Night Out" event, posed with her cascading blond hair, and sidestepped questions about a tabloid story saying that Lindsay swiped a fur coat from a woman at a nightclub in Manhattan.

She said she and Lindsay were "laughing hysterically" about that claim. "You go away," she said to a reporter from "Inside Edition" who continued to hound her, calling his line of questioning "evil" and reminding him to "be nice."

"I've never partied with my daughter in my life," she also said, explaining that when she appears with Lindsay at a club she is there as her manager.

Lohan, who is 45 and lives in Merrick, talked about how all mothers need support, invoking her own mom, Ann Sullivan, 82, and also of Merrick, whom she brought with her. What advice does Dina give Lindsay? "Just to be honest and to stay morally correct. And listen to your mother."