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LiLo ripped Palin apart last night in her blog, asking, "Is our country so divided that the Republicans best hope is a narrow minded, media obsessed homophobe?" She then added the totally non-ironic comment, "Oh, and...Hint Hint Pali Pal- Don't pose for anymore tabloid covers, you're not a celebrity, you're running for office to represent our, your, my COUNTRY!"

Lesson: Leave the gossip mags to the professionals.

After his lackluster role in Star Wars, he's lucky shmoos don't shoot back.

Seems the people who own the short story that ultimately became "Rear Window" are deeply disturbed over "Disturbia" ... so disturbed they've filed suit in NYC, claiming the Shia LaBeouf flick is a blatant ripoff.

When Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart did "Rear Window" in 1954, they first commissioned the short story, "Murder from a Fixed Viewpoint." The people who own that story say "Disturbia" is a carbon copy of "Window" and therefore Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks should have also obtained permission from the owners of "Murder from a Fixed Viewpoint."

The lawsuit claims "Disturbia" and "Rear Window" stories are "essentially the same" -- a Peeping Tom watches creepy neighbor type flick -- and attacks Spielberg's "back-door use of the 'Rear Window' story without paying compensation."

Calls to Spielberg's rep were not returned.

Arnold Schwarzenegger hit Brentwood yesterday to have lunch with Christian Bale -- the guy who keeps taking over the movie franchises he starred in first. No word if Christian ordered his own meal ... or just finished off whatever Arnold had.

Usually he's kind of a douchebag, so imagine our surprise when -- live on air -- Tyrese promised to take the whole audience to a free screening of his new movie, "Death Race." Unfortunately, we're told some of the more excited fans showed up to the theater too quickly for the message to be relayed -- so they were denied.

Why Tom Cruise thought it would be a good idea to make a movie about Nazis is anyone's guess.

But the latest bad news to hit the production of that Nazi picture is a $12 mil lawsuit filed against United Artists and Cruise by a group of extras who were injured when a side panel of a Nazi-era truck gave way -- and spilled them all onto the street. They all had to go the hospital, one with possible internal injuries.

The kicker: When our photog asks her if she wants to say "hey" to any friends at TMZ ... just watch it.

An actor who was featured in "The 40 Year Old Virgin" has just been arrested for allegedly viciously knifing his ex-girlfriend.

Shelley Malil allegedly went to his ex's home yesterday and stabbed her in her home near San Diego. Authorities say he chased her inside and outside the house, stabbing her as many as 20 times. The victim's two children were in the home at the time of the attack.

A neighbor jumped the attacker, but the man escaped. Malil was just arrested at an Amtrak station in San Diego.

The identity and condition of the victim is unknown.