…and he comes in the form of True Blood hunk, Grant Bowler!

Because the Lifetime biopic Liz and Dick will chronicle Elizabeth Taylor‘s tumultuous marriage with her fourth (and fifth) husband, Richard Burton, the two needed to have chemistry. Despite an almost 20 year age difference, producers say that Bowler and costar Lindsay Lohan def do.

Says producer Gary Thompson,

“We had seen him [Bowler] on tape and liked him but wanted to confirm the chemistry between the two. But this morning we had Lindsay and Grant come into a room at Lifetime and the chemistry exploded,” Thompson said exclusively to E! News. “It was just Fourth of July firecrackers going off in the room. We knew from the chemistry that Liz and Dick live again.”

Well, one consideration down.  Now, like, 100,000,000 more to go, as Taylor superfans watch nervously to see how Lifetime interprets her story.

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Samantha Ronson, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton did it UP last night!

Lindsay started her night out at an exclusive Hollywood club, X17 exclusively reports.  Then, she met up with Paris and her ex, DJ Sam Ronson.  The three ladies joined Paris’ younger brother Barron Hilton and Brandon Davis at a Hollywood Hills mega-mansion for some after hours partying that lasted until 7am in the morning!

Paris and Brandon walked out of the house through the garage, while Lindsay and Sam took a more direct route. Sounds like a rough night, but they don’t have to work in the morning.  ANY of them.  Oh, Hollywood!

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Lindsay Lohan showed up at A&E’s upfront last night in New York with a newly injected face!

If you can believe it, the actress is only 25, but her face looks much, much older.

She appeared on the red carpet with a puffy face, dark eyebrows and a blotchy spray tan. Her lips also look like they’ve been injected with something.

Here’s my nice thing to say: I like her dress and her shoes. Those are pretty cute.

Also at A&E’s upfronts: Jennifer Love Hewitt.

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Lindsay Lohan and ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson may be back on, according to reports. Sources say the former lovers were spotted “holding hands” and flirting at a New York club.

Sources tell X17.com that on Tuesday night, Lohan headed to Le Baron in Chinatown with Ronson.

“Lindsay and Sam were whispering and laughing, and they left the club holding hands,” the source tells the site. “They didn’t care who saw them, and they definitely seem to be back on. It was just like the old days — they couldn’t get enough of each other!”

Lindsay and Samantha dated on-and-off for two years, right before things started going wrong for Lindsay. The couple split after several public fights in 2009.

Oooooor maybe Lindsay’s back with her ex-boyfriend Vikram Chatwal? She was spotted with him yesterday, when she exited his hotel in NYC. The two apparently went on a shopping spree. (Photos below)

In other Lindsay news, she’s almost done with that whole hit-and-run incident.

E! News can confirm that LAPD detectives have completed their investigation in this matter and will send the case to the D.A.’s office Friday.

Detectives looked at videos and conducted interviews since the alleged March 14 run-in and say that if anything new comes from this case, it will be from the D.A.’s office.

READ: Elizabeth Taylor Biopic Producer: Lindsay Lohan “Most Insured Actress That Ever Walked”

TMZ reports that the case against LiLo has “lots of holes” and there “isn’t enough to prove a crime.” A rep for the D.A.’s office tells E! News, however, that they currently do not have the case, so they can’t comment on it.

Thankfully, no one was injured during the alleged fender-bender earlier this year, and despite Lohan’s legal troubles of the past few years, she finally completed probation (for her 2007 DUI case) in March.

“I’m not going to give you a lecture,” Judge Stephanie Sautner told her. “Live your life in a more mature way, stop the nightclubbing and focus on your work, OK?”

I can totally see her getting back together with Samantha. She seems to be slightly back-on-track. Sammy didn’t appreciate Lindsay’s antics.

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Lindsay Lohan was spotted trying to sneak into her hotel in NYC yesterday afternoon, without being spotted by paprazzi.

Lindsay is preparing to start work on her new lifetime movie, ‘Liz & Dick’, in which she’ll play the late Elizabeth Taylor. How are things coming along? Fine, except they still haven’t cast the role of Richard Burton, and filming is set to being on June 4th!

A source close to production ‘fessed to E! News that “producers of the Lifetime biopic Liz & Dick have still not cast the actor to play the role of Richard Burton.”

Which, seems fairly problematic considering there are only 34 days before filming begins. So there must be a few frontrunners, right?!

Wrong.

As of today there is no final casting. They have been looking at a lot of actors,” our production-savvy source revealed.

Our source would not mention who, specifically, producers have their eye on but we’re getting nervous as June 4th nears. All the hype’s been around casting Lindsay, but this is not the Elizabeth Taylor solo biopic—the role of Richard Burton is equally as important since the flick chronicles Liz & Dick’s chaotic union.

Still, our source confirms shooting is indeed “set to start in L.A. in the first week of June”, so producer Larry Thompson better pick his Dick pretty soon if he wants to stick to schedule.

As for a reason behind the hold-up? Our production insider reveals the casting’s not as easy as it seems:

“Everyone wants to make sure the male lead not only can pull off Richard Burton, but that they have great chemistry with Lindsay. It is a double-whammy casting challenge.”

Hey Larry, if you need some advice we’ve already pinned down four dudes who we think are par-fait for the part, but we still want you Awful readers to weigh in.

Let’s cast this Richard Burton role so we can move on to more important things, like, Lindsay’s future antics on set!

I like how they’re taking their time finding the perfect actor to play Richard Burton. Didn’t it seem like a quick decision to cast Lindsay Lohan? Seems like maybe they should have slowed down and really considered giving her the role as well. I don’t see this ending well.

PS: Look at how everyone is staring at her! Especially the waitress. Priceless.

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Lindsay Lohan is currently filming a segment for ‘Glee’, and even though last week shooting went “really great, she was so professional and it looked like everything was going to go so well,” yesterday did not go as well.

Lindsay showed up on the set of the hit FOX show over three hours late. E! reports that some staffers were so upset with her tardiness, that they nicknamed her “That Girl”, saying “She has rubbed them all up the wrong way by being so disrespectful of everyone else’s schedule.”

Dot Marie Jones, who plays Coach Bieste, tweeted out (and later deleted): “Gonna be a long day!! Some ppl show up late and just throw a wrench in things. Not cool! I’d rather be an hour early (I was) than 5 minutes late.”

Lindsay (along with guest celebrity judges Rex Lee and Perez Hilton) was shooting the big “Nationals” competition, for the Glee episode that will air May 15 on Fox. They were doing reaction shots of Lindsay and the other audience members yesterday. She is playing herself.

Lindsay’s spokesman Steve Honig insists she was late yesterday because of a “misunderstanding” about her call time, and tells us: “The production team came to us and said that they wanted to start [with Lindsay] right after lunch, which was at 2. They wanted to begin with Lindsay at 3, so that meant she had a lot of time where she wasn’t doing anything. That’s why people didn’t see her. She was then in hair and makeup and began after lunch at 3.”

He adds: “If there was a problem yesterday, I would have just said ‘no comment,’ however I can’t ignore this because this is utter B.S. This is a classic example of people trying to bash Lindsay. She busted her ass yesterday and is back on set again today.”

A well-placed Glee source tells us that despite the tardiness issues yesterday, “Everyone on Glee is still rooting for Lindsay. We had made a few jokes at her expense earlier in the show, and we really do want her to be able to succeed.”

Lindsay is on the Glee set today finishing up her guest spot.

Why am I not surprised! Maybe Rosie was right?

Here are some new pictures of her in Los Angeles yesterday after her day of filming.

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I’m not going to say that I’m NOT jealous of Lindsay Lohan and Kim Kardashian, who get coveted plus ones at the White House Correspondents Dinner…

But I will say this: what a media parade!  Both were invited by FOX news and were put at the same table together.  Kardashian, 31, and Lohan, 25,  have known each other a while, so it won’t be too awkward for them (just for everyone else, perhaps?).  FOX news,  you really seem to know how to MAKE news…

I hope Obama has thoughts about his new dinner guests!

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