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Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 120 days behind bars, but her lawyer quickly filed an appeal.LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Lohan will soon be carrying a bucket around folks who've just kicked one.
The "Mean Girls" star has one week to enroll in the community service program at the Los Angeles County morgue, a judge ruled Friday.
She must serve 120 hours with the coroner, doing maintenance and janitorial work in areas where dead bodies are a common sight, a spokesman told the Daily News.
"She will empty trash, vacuum, clean restrooms," Asst. Chief Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County Coroner said.
"She won't be in the autopsy area. However, there will be some exposure to bodies. She'll see them but won't touch them."
Lohan completed a much shorter drunken-driving program at the morgue as part of her original sentence for back-to-back DUIs in 2007.
She watched a presentation and toured the crypts, but it was over in four hours.
Along with the new morgue service, Lohan must complete 360 hours at the Downtown Women's Center.
That could be a formidable task since she's facing a trial for her alleged necklace theft in early June and hopes to begin shooting a Gotti biopic with costars John Travolta and Joe Pesci in New York as early as September.
The "Freaky Friday" star, 24, also has a four-month jail sentence hanging over her head for violating her probation with the alleged necklace theft.
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A judge sentenced her to the 120 days behind bars Friday, but her lawyer quickly filed an appeal. She was bailed out within hours, but her community service was not postponed.
Her appeal is expected to take months.
Meanwhile, if she loses at the theft trial, she could face a separate sentence up to one year in county jail.
The Gotti film's production company, Fiore Films, is standing by the decision to cast Lohan as Kim Gotti, daughter-in-law of the late John Gotti.
She's even set to appear on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" Tuesday to talk about the role, a source told the News.
"She is still in the film provided she can fulfill her obligations," Fiore spokesman Steve Honig told the News.
"She has been cast in this role. She still has the role and we're very excited about her being in the movie," he said.
Honig said it was too early to talk about how far the movie's producers are willing to go to keep Lohan if her legal troubles get in the way.
"We're not going to speculate on 'What if this happens, what if that happens,'" he said.
"We're dealing with a few unknowns. Once we start understanding exactly what the situation is, that's when we can start making some decisions."
ndillon@nydailynews.com
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