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    • Lindsay Lohan gets slammed in an early 'Liz & Dick' review, but it’s not all bad news

      The early reviews are in for Lindsay Lohan’s much-buzzed-about Lifetime TV movie “Liz & Dick,” and let’s just say the star won’t be putting a bottle of champagne on her ridiculously-high tab at the Chateau Marmont after reading some of them. However, it isn’t all bad news for the troubled star, who is desperately in need of a hit to remind people she’s more than just tabloid fodder.

      [Related: Lindsay Lohan on ‘Relating’ to Liz Taylor]

      The Hollywood Reporter’s Tim Goodman provides the harshest of the lot. Describing the biopic about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as “half train wreck, half ‘SNL’ skit,” he flat out calls it “spectacularly bad,” noting that it is “like a high school play” and it “truly drags.” As for Lohan, she is “woeful as Taylor from start to finish” and “there is not one minute in this film where she’s believable.” He specifically calls out how bad she is playing an older version of Taylor. “The moment Lohan appears in this get-up, it’s impossible not to laugh.

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    • We'll admit we have a bit of a soft spot for the character Mike Faber -- who is played by Diego Klattenhoff -- on "Homeland." When his best friend and fellow Marine, Nicholas Brody, was feared dead, "Uncle Mike" stepped up to take care of his pal's family. Over the eight years that Brody was gone, Mike fell in love with his friend's wife, Jess -- oops! -- only to have Brody return and reclaim his family with Mike's only option being to walk away. Of course viewers then quickly learned that while Brody was a prisoner of war he was turned by al-Qaeda figure Abu Nazir, and as he started to do things like, ya know, don a suicide vest in attempt to blow up the vice president, nice guy Mike has emerged as the clear better fella in the love triangle. Oh, he doesn't know Brody is bad … yet. In this Sunday's episode of the Showtime series, we see Mike's attitude toward Brody starting to change. He's cut his friend a lot of slack since he returned home from Afghanistan with an arsenal of

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    • Diem Brown candidly shares her cancer battle, including hair loss

      Diem Brown (Getty Images)Diem Brown showed some muscle when she competed on MTV’s “Real World/Road Rules Challenge,” but she’s exhibiting far more strength during her real-life battle with ovarian cancer. In June, the TV personality was diagnosed with the disease for the second time, and she’s been candidly sharing her story, including undergoing controversial fertility procedures with the hope of freezing her eggs as well as the most recent development – hair loss.

      “This week I wanted to do something a lil different,” the 30-year-old writes in her blog for People magazine. “One, because I've been really quite ill and haven't been able to think straight through the medication haze to write a coherent blog. And two, because making a chemo hair loss video is something I have always wanted to do – video of the hair loss process was something I had searched for the first time I had cancer.”

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      Brown went on to share how when she lost her hair the first time she had cancer –

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    • Our 5 favorite collaborations between Golden Globe hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

      Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (Getty Images)Buh-bye, Ricky Gervais. Hellooo, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler! The dynamic duo of comedians have been tapped to host the 2013 Golden Globes, it was announced yesterday. And just like that – snap! – there are great expectations for the award show because the real-life pals, who knew one another long before they made it big in showbiz, are quite a team.

      Friends since their days with the Chicago improv troupe Second City, the Lucy and Ethel-esque pair – who co-anchored the popular “Saturday Night Live” segment "Weekend Update" and paired up for movies “Mean Girls” and “Baby Mama” – have a chemistry that is all their own. In Fey’s book “Bossypants,” she talked about her excitement when Poehler landed a job on “SNL.” “Weirdly, I remember thinking, ‘My friend is here! My friend is here!’ Even though things had been going great for me at the show, with Amy there, I felt less alone,” wrote Fey. For her part, Poehler told Babble that they became fast friends. “I was like, I finally found the woman

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    • You know a character is pivotal to a storyline when his name is uttered more than 20 times in a single episode. On this Sunday's "Homeland," you'll hear "Abu Nazir" a lot as the al-Qaida terrorist leader finds himself in the line of fire during a dramatic CIA operation designed to snuff him out. For the second season of the popular Showtime series, Navid Negahban has become a regular, so we'll see more of the interesting relationship he's developed with "turned" war veteran Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), who -- because of Nazir -- has become an undercover operative for al-Qaida.

      Although he plays the world's most-wanted terrorist on television, Negahban was disarmingly nice and unpretentious when Yahoo! TV caught up with him to find out more about this season's happenings on "Homeland." Born in Iran, the 44-year-old grew up during the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War, before leaving at the age of 20 and moving to Turkey, Germany, and eventually America. After getting his

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    • ‘Jersey Shore’ girls talk about the final season — and what’s ahead

      Sammi, Jenni, and Deena (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Invision/AP)Tonight marks the beginning of the end of "Jersey Shore" -- the premiere of the finale season of the reality TV series that popularized the art of … fist pumping. Yahoo! TV caught up with Jenni "JWOWW" Farley, Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola, and Deena Nicole Cortese to get the scoop on their last hurrah as well as what's ahead when MTV's breakout show fades to black.

      So what can viewers expect during the premiere? "Seeing all of us getting back together and having a friggin' blast," Jenni says. Beyond that, the final season will be a slightly different take on what has been a successful formula. "You can expect to see the typical drama -- the fights, the hookups, the fun times," adds Sammi. "But I mean, we are living with a pregnant person (Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi) and a guy who's sober (Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino), so you're going to see a little bit of a different spin on things." One episode that is not to be missed? "You're going to want to see Deena's arrest, 'cause that was

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    • ‘Saved By the Bell’ star Lark Voorhies has bipolar disorder, according to her mother

      Last spring, Lark Voorhies appeared on Yahoo!’s series “The Yo Show” (watch the episode below) to reminisce about her days on the ’90s Saturday-morning sitcom “Saved By the Bell.” She looked drastically different from how we remembered little Lisa Turtle – her hair was dyed red and she had on heavy makeup – starting rumors of all sorts. Sparked by that appearance, People magazine conducted a series of interviews with the actress, and in their new issue they report on Lark’s “sad spiral,” which the actress’ mother attributes to mental illness.

      People reports that during a recent photo shoot with the 38-year-old actress, her “once-sparkling brown eyes” were “disturbingly vacant.” Lark kept a “near-constant dialogue – by turns mournful, frenetic, and angry – with unseen figures,” and struggled “to focus for even brief moments.” Although Lark denied to the magazine that she suffers from mental illness – the devout Jehovah’s Witness answered the question by saying, “Oh no. We’re alive in

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    • Arnold Schwarzenegger's marriage to Maria Shriver was full of secrets

      Arnold Schwarzenegger can keep a secret – and he kept many from his wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver.

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      Appearing on “60 Minutes” Sunday to promote his new book, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story, Schwarzenegger – who referred to himself as “an expert in living in denial” – said he hid many things from his wife during their marriage. Of course one of those was his affair with the family housekeeper Mildred Baena, which produced a child and ultimately ended his marriage. During the interview, the 65-year-old actually 'fessed up to cheating on Shriver on multiple occasions and keeping other potentially life-changing secrets from her, including having open heart surgery and deciding to run for governor of California.

      “That's the way I handle things,” Schwarzenegger said of keeping secrets. “And it always has worked. But, I mean it does not – it's not the best thing for people around me because I

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    • 'Sons of Anarchy' actor Johnny Lewis dies in bizarre double death

      Johnny Lewis (Getty Images)Actor Johnny Lewis, who appeared on “Sons of Anarchy” and dated Katy Perry, was found dead in Los Angeles in what can only be described as a bizarre double death.

      A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department tells Yahoo! that the bodies of 28-year-old Lewis and 81-year-old Catherine Davis were found at Davis’ Los Feliz home Wednesday at 10:40 a.m. when law enforcement arrived to investigate a 911 call about a woman screaming. Lewis, whose lifeless body was found in the driveway of the home, is the suspect in the elderly woman’s murder. He allegedly beat the woman to death, became involved in a scuffle with two men at a neighboring house (assaulting one of them), and then returned to Davis’ home, where he fell or jumped off the roof.

      [Related: Major death stuns ‘Sons of Anarchy’ fans early in Season 5]

      According to a report on TMZ, Lewis – who rented a room from Davis – was released from L.A. County Jail just five days before the double death. He had “several cases” filed

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    • It certainly wasn't a typical day in the office when the stars of "Guys With Kids" stopped by our New York City studio for an interview this week. Anthony Anderson exercised his trademark sense of humor to the max, taking over the makeup room, applying foundation for one of the Yahoo! show hosts, and joking around with everyone else he encountered, from the sound technician to this interviewer. When the cameras started rolling, he and his costars Zach Cregger and Jesse Bradford continued to deliver big laughs while talking about playing BFF dads on the new family-friendly series, working for Jimmy Fallon, and crushing on "Vanessa Huxtable" -- better known as Tempestt Bledsoe, who plays Anderson's wife on the show.

      [Photos: Meet the cast of 'Guys With Kids']

      It was hard to know exactly what was going to come out of their mouths next -- at one point during the interview, Bradford declared, "This is off the rails" -- but when we brought up Fallon, who is the show's executive

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