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The Guv was on George Stephanopoulos' show today, saying he will indeed support his bud by shooting a scene in Sly's movie, "The Expendables."

A few days ago, the Guv's media hack double-talked us and said the only plan the Governor had was to get the Caleeefornia budget passed -- that he knew nothing about a movie. It was so obvious he was lying, but that was his story.

Ditto Sly's rep, said nothing was solid about the Guv doing the movie, even though a rep for the movie's own executive producer told us he was doing a scene.

People were giving Arnold heat for leaving the State to do a movie. Clearly his reps felt they could lie about it until the budget was approved, as if the State is no longer in crisis.

How stupid do they think we are?

The memo gives Academy officers a heads up on the winners, but officials say no such memo exists.

Some of the winners seem pretty obvious to us and some don't. It will be interesting to see if the list ends up nailing it.

Stay tuned ...

Meanwhile, Nick proceeded to load his cougar into the back seat of the waiting SUV, which then chauffeured them away.

One of the most famous screenwriters in Hollywood is accused of a campaign of terror and violence against his former girlfriend...the allegations include kicking, punching, choking, crushing and throwing her, and that's just the beginning.

Shane Black, who wrote "Lethal Weapon," "The Last Boy Scout," and "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," has been sued by Sonya Popovich, who claims among many things, in 2006, a cocaine-fueled Shane put a gun in his mouth, threatened to blow his head off and then pointed it in her direction -- it discharged, hitting a wall.

She also claims he crushed and tried suffocating her during another incident during the same year. She says she was hospitalized for a hairline split in her esophagus that Shane allegedly inflicted. While in the hospital, Popovich alleges he visited her and on one occasion "crawled into [her] bed, removed a vial of cocaine from his pocket, sniffed some cocaine from the vial, and proceeded to masturbate in Plaintiff's hospital bed."

In her lawsuit for assault, battery, and emotional distress filed yesterday in L.A. County Superior Court, Popovich is asking for more than $5 million.

So looks like the Governator took some heat after the producer of Sylvester Stallone's new movie told us Arnold would leave Sacramento to shoot a scene for "The Expendables." Now Sly himself is telling us Arnold will not shoot the scene, at least not now.

Arnold's people and Sly say the Guv only has one thing on his mind right now and that's the budget crisis. Sly says things could change once Arnold solves California's woes. Read between the lines and it's pretty clear Arnold had a big PR problem by putting the Legislature on lockdown and then agreeing to go off and shoot a movie.

So -- Will Ahnold rescue Caleeefornia so he can do Sly's movie next month?

Stay tuned ...

He's got the California state legislature on lockdown until they can pass a budget, the state is embarrassingly broke, Californians are losing jobs and homes by the thousands -- and the Governator is off doing a movie!?!

WTF?!

Arnold Schwarzenegger will take time off to shoot a scene for Sylvester Stallone's upcoming action flick, "The Expendables."

Shooting is expected to begin next month. No word on whether Arnie plans to donate his paycheck to the deficit.

Even though a hockey mask covers his face the entire movie, the fans were loving Derek Mears outside Coco de Ville -- and one of 'em gave out the most unusual compliment ever: "Good chopping heads off!"

Cruise, who's at the NASCAR event to drive the race's pace car, and Urban, who's playing a concert at the race, squared off -- you would think to talk about the whole wife swap thing.

But our spies say the country singer and Scientolostar shook hands and had a few laughs -- probably about sharing a bed with Nicole and treating the inevitable frostbite that comes after such a risky move.

And ain't this sweet -- Connor went up to chew the fat with Keith.

Radcliffe was in NYC when the accident occurred on the UK set of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows."

Can you spot Renée in this picture?