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She survived 13 days of jail and 23 days in rehab, but can Lindsay Lohan handle Jerry Lewis?

The 84-year-old comic legend says he has no sympathy for the troubled starlet, and has threatened to haul off and hit her if they ever crossed paths.

“I’d smack her in the mouth if I saw her,” Lewis said in a tirade taped by Inside Edition. “I would smack her in the mouth and be arrested for abusing a woman!”

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Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Nancy Dolman, the wife of actor-comedian Martin Short has died, Short’s representative said.

“Sadly, we can confirm that Martin Short’s wife did pass away,” Camille Kuznetz said Monday. “We do not have any other comment to make.”

No details about the time, location or cause of Dolman’s death were released.

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Who believes that Whoopi Goldberg got a little rough with Michaele Salahi today?

The View is up in arms over the Real Housewives of D.C. matron’s claim that Goldberg hit her during the show, calling Salahi’s accusation “completely unfounded and erroneous.” (Which is funny, because it looked as if all of her castmates really were raring to hit her throughout their appearance.)

Sure, they ended up in a “heated exchange backstage, “show rep Karl Nilsson said, but that’s only because Goldberg was forced to adamantly defend herself.

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(EW.com) — While promoting her new fall series “Raising Hope” at the Televisions Critics Association gathering in L.A., co-star Cloris Leachman was asked about the current adulation Betty White is enjoying. “I’m so sick of Betty White,” Leachman snapped, to laughs and a few gasps. “Never liked her.”

Leachman was kidding, of course. “We’re co-starring in a new movie, called ‘You Again,’” she noted, softening her tone.

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Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Art Linkletter, the easygoing, smooth-voiced emcee famed for his long-running hosting gigs of the radio and television shows “House Party” and “People Are Funny,” and author of “Kids Say the Darndest Things,” has died, according to his spokeswoman.

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NEW YORK – Betty White demonstrated how it’s done as host of this week’s “Saturday Night Live.”

Drawing on her six decades in comedy, she was the consummate pro at 88 years old — sweet, sassy, salty, charming and clearly game for anything.

“I’m not new to live TV,” she reminded the audience at the top of the show, and recalled that she had starred in a sitcom that aired live back in 1952.

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(CNN) — In an industry where youth is embraced and wrinkles are fought with Botox and age-defying caviar creams, longtime actress and comedienne Betty White is an exception to the Hollywood rule.

White, 88, is in the midst of a career resurgence at an age when most actors have long since retired from Tinsel Town and moved on to the golf courses of Palm Springs.

In the past year, the former “Golden Girls” star has appeared alongside Sandra Bullock in the blockbuster “The Proposal,” landed a cameo in a coveted Super Bowl commercial and received a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Screen Actors Guild awards.

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Betty White fans, your prayers have been answered. The former Golden Girl will appear on “Saturday Night Live” in the near future, she confirmed to PEOPLE at Elton John’s annual Oscars viewing party on Sunday night.

Fans have been clamoring for White, 88, to do “SNL” — an idea she called “ridiculous” just a few weeks ago — ever since her comic turn in a Snickers ad during the Super Bowl. One Facebook page devoted to the cause has attracted half a million fans.

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Her ad for Snickers, which debuted during the Super Bowl, was one of the most popular to air. (It’s also gone viral.) She often pops up as a late-night talk show guest. There’s also a movement afoot to have her host “Saturday Night Live.”

White’s mix of grandmotherly sweetness and comic brazenness (note her turn as a foul-mouthed widow who likes to feed the alligators in the 1999 horror film “Lake Placid”) has made her a beloved figure to fans of all ages.

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(CNN) — Magnanimous in defeat, which could turn into victory, Conan O’Brien bequeathed “The Tonight Show” back to Jay Leno Friday after first thanking NBC for at least putting him on the map.

“This company has been my home for most of my adult life,” he told viewers. “I am enormously proud of the work we’ve done together. I want to thank NBC for making it all possible. I really do.”

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