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Summer Preview!

We give you over a hundred reasons to stay inside this summer. Plus: Kyra Sedgwick, Denis Leary, Jerry Springer, our Dream Emmy Ballot, Lost finale scoop and more!

BREAKING NEWS

Who'll Be Gone from Grey's?
The inside word on who might not be returning next season. Plus: An update on Farrah Fawcett

Neve Campbell Returns to TV Tonight

Can you believe it's been seven years already since the family drama Party of Five came to an end? Neve Campbell, who played the middle child Julia on the drama, is finally returning to television in a three-episode arc starting tonight on NBC's Medium.

She will play a traveling pharmaceutical salesperson who becomes friends with Allison when the psychic needs someone to confide in. Another '90s teen idol makes a guest appearance on this episode as well ... Jason Priestley. First the audience of Dancing with the Stars earlier this week, now Medium. He will play a man on trial for murder.

In an ironic twist, Medium airs opposite Lost, so Neve will be competing against her former Party of Five co-star Matthew Fox for viewers.

Rumors abound that she is also tying the knot with her boyfriend, John Light, this weekend. Sure a busy week for someone who's been largely out of the picture.

Newsstand Friday: EW

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Melinda? Blake? Sanjaya?! We connect with all seven singers still standing in what is shaping up to be the most unpredictable ''American Idol'' season ever. Who will win? And do the contestants even care?

Television News

'Lost': Finally, some answers as the producers come clean
Finally, some answers! The show's producers come clean about sagging ratings, the Nikki/Paulo debacle, and the beginning of the island's end

The Glutton: Are you a sci-fi geek? Know the signs...
Dalton owns up: He's a sci-fi geek. And you? Take his test and find out. Plus: the perfect pet for the discerning movie fan, the five worst songs to play while getting it on, and reader mail

The Q&A

EW.com Exclusive: George Clooney says that while notorious Web clips of David O. Russell's blowup at Lily Tomlin give context to his own run-in with the director, he condemns posting such material online

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Lost Mysteries Revealed!
The cast dishes on upcoming baby drama, reunion and funerals. (And yes, that's plural.)
Plus: Andy Richter and Conan O'Brien together again, Ugly Betty's hot accountant Christopher Gorham, Wanda Sykes, Jericho scoop, Ivanka Trump and more!

BREAKING NEWS
Is Izzie Leaving Grey's?
Tense contract negotiations could mean goodbye Grey's and hello Hollywood for Katherine Heigl. Plus: Endangered shows, Idol Chat, 24's Gregory Itzin and I Love New York's final four — who will the diva pick?

Nothing Like an Actress Whining to Start Your Day

Actress Michelle Rodriguez has it tough. Or so she thinks. The actress from Lost, Girlfight and The Fast and the Furious has a DUI or two on her record and as such, she's done a little time in the pen, and had to wear an ankle bracelet. In a recent posting from her on her website, she bemoans the fact that she has to wear the ankle bracelet. She even volunteered to stay in jail longer just to avoid the bracelet. While there may be flaws with the electronic device - it's simple. Don't break the law and you won't have to worry about it.

I get get bitch slapped by uncle sam again in hollywood. I do my time in L.A., i get out in a couple of hours because they only have room for real criminals like killers, drug dealers, and rapists. I pay fines, do my community service, and I get a sentence to wear a bracelet for three months. The bracelet is to detect liquor content in your sweat every half hour it takes a reading using some split fuel cell type technology. I go to get this thing put on and I realize this thing is like a freaking VCR, and why do they care If I drink, what am I gonna do, drink and walk over someone, I have no license. Anyway I put this contraption on and the second day the guy calls me and says you've got an alcohol reading. I was like, I haven't had any liquor. He's like, well you can't use listerine, no shampoo, or soap, or lotion, or perfume, with alcohol in it. I tried to get them to put me in jail but they had their mind set on this bracelet. So I go away to new york a couple of months ago and I get another reading, I'm like are you kidding me Im f-cking Fasting... I was on the cayenne peeper lemon water cleanse for four days straight, all I had in my system was lemon, maple syrup, cayenne pepper, and water... After about three readings from this thing I started to feel a bit like a pawn, I didn't like the Idea that I could do possible jail time for using the wrong shampoo, fasting out toxins, or having vanilla in my tea. I felt like a guinea pig for a new technology. I think that level of vigilance is great for alcoholics, druggies, and heroin addicts. Yet I felt for someone like me, who loves her life too much to f*ck it up for a sip of a beverage, this level of control just isn't necessary. Thank God I got to take it off for a month or so to go work on "Battle in Seattle". It felt so good to be out of the country. Yet soon I was back in L.A. and Back to the bull Sh*t, a year and a half after Hawaii, I'm still hearing about this looming shed skin of the past. Pretty primal mentality to live in what happened as if it still is.

I came up with the Idea of embracing the inevitable, with the hint of obvious irony. I decided on my trip to New York's fashion week to make a statement that I felt was necessary to express my truth. Hence the orwell 1984 reference in white out on the "Vigil Net Government Dog Tag'. What show better than Marc Jacobs. I feel good knowing that some people out there know what's really going on and maybe then at least have an idea where my insanity stems from. Life's a bitch and then I laugh. I just don't like being toyed with. I'm a full on believer that we create our own chaos, yet those that are strong will always get the shorter end of the stick, thats when i step back, weigh things, evaluate them, and stand stronger than I was before the storm. One things for sure I'll take FBI approved truth serum over a VCR Dog Tag any day of the week. I've got nothing to hide."

She's currently filming the movie Battle in Seattle.

Photo from her website.

Newsstand Friday: Entertainment Weekly Magazine

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''Lost'' roars back! See where season 3 goes from here
by Jeff Jensen, Dan Snierson | Feb 11, 2007
The cast and creative forces behind ABC's revolutionary drama spill secrets, answer critics, and mull over how and when they would like to seal the hatch for good

Not a Good Idea, Josh!

I think maybe Lost's Josh Holloway ("Sawyer") has island fever. Nothing else could explain a married man revealing in a magazine article that he has a crush on his co-star. But it's not Kate, it's Hurley.

Us Magazine says that Holloway mentioned: "at least he'd cuddle me good afterwards." He also confessed to these scary fantasies: "I've fantasized about Barbra Streisand," he admits. "And I saw Sophia Loren at a restaurant a couple years ago and I thought, 'I'd still go there'."

Comments like this are from either a great sense of humor or a great deal of boredom, if you ask me.

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In this week's issue of TV Guide magazine:

Criminal Minds Exclusive!
The post-Super Bowl time slot gives the dark CBS drama a chance to shine. Plus: Lost recap, Katherine McPhee, Grammy Awards preview and more.

TV's baby boom!
We've got the latest on who's pregnant and what it means for favorite shows. Plus: Studio 60's shocking plot twist and scoop on Cold Case's latest musical coup.

You Tell Us: American Idol
Has American Idol gotten too mean? You weigh in.

Cheers & Jeers: 24, etc
From DB Woodside’s president on 24 to William H. Macy’s president on The Unit, we’ve got it all. Tell us if you agree or disagree.

Is It Just Me: Heroes, etc.
Join our quirky columnist Rochell D. Thomas in sounding off on Heroes, Dirt, Rosie O’Donnell and David Letterman’s skimpy new deli platter. (Yes, you read that right.)

Lost Star Gets Divorced and the Others Didn't Do It

So we just reported an engagement, which means . . . it's time to report a divorce. This time it's Lost star Emilie de Ravin (Claire Littleton), 25, according to People magazine. Six measly months of marriage is all they made it through. Emilie's rep confirms that she has separated from her husband, actor Josh Janowicz, 25.

This was the first marriage for both of them and luckily they don't have any kids. You might recognize Janowicz from Cold Case or, more importantly, as the "hot priest" in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

America's Next Top Model Runner-Up Melrose Gets a Job

Actress Michelle Rodriguez (from Lost fame) has hired the America's Next Top Model runner-up, Melrose Bickerstaff, to design for her clothing line, Ishkidada.

As Melrose recently told Celebrity Week,

"I've been working with an amazing clothing company called Ishkadada ... It's going to premiere in Spring of '08 and I'm doing their women's line ... They are fusing new fabrics and new technology into their clothing and into innovative designs and versatility … my friend Dara Young who used to design for Betsy Johnson, it's her company and I couldn't have met a better person. She is business partners with Michelle Rodriguez (of Lost)... before I went on the show I was ... doing it all myself right now I get to focus on what I do best which is design and sketch and drape.

Melrose actually went to school for fashion design and has won awards for her designs before, so this isn't completely out of left field. The line is set to debut in the Fall of 2007/Spring of 2008

Photo from TV Guide.