Here’s one rumor that dropped on my desk covered with grains of salt. Still and all – why not? Can it be that Sarah Palin and her brilliant doppelganger, Tina Fey, have forged some sort of friendship?! My source insists, “Fey and Palin don’t talk politics. Just ‘mom stuff’ and pop-culture chitchat, like TV and movies. There’s a yin-yang aspect to it. And now it seems a ‘lock’ that Sarah will return to ‘SNL’ this year.”

Stranger things have happened: the rise of Sarah Palin, for example! So I won’t count this out totally. 

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Speaking of Gov. Palin, remember last year when we told you Lifetime TV had a pilot in the works titled “The Amazing Mrs. Novak,” which bore more than a passing resemblance to the career of  Sarah? Well, now – even though the pilot, which starred Amy Pietz and Kristin Dattilo, was deemed very good – it won’t become a series.

The failure of John McCain and Palin to reach D.C. might have something to do with the pulled plug, but there is also concern about the surreal Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich scandal. Some Lifetime honchos just said, “Nothing about governors this year!” Oh, come on you guys, be brave and innovative and snarky – combine the Palin and Blago stories. (If not, Showtime, here’s your next “Dexter!”)

The governors wouldn’t care. These two canny politicians are 21st-century celebs: There’s no such thing as bad publicity.

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