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Tattle: Za vas! Lindsay Lohan is engaged! Oh, no she's not

Also in Tattle: Grimes, HANA, WWE stars, “American Bandstand,” Michael Mann and soup cans

TUESDAY afternoon reports circulated that former Tattle headliner Lindsay Lohan had gotten engaged to a Russian heir. We went out for a bottle of Stoli to celebrate.

By Tuesday night People magazine was reporting that Lindsay was not engaged - that 22-year-old boyfriend Egor Tarabasov hadn't put a ring on the 29-year-old's finger.

"The story is untrue and holds no merit," Lohan's rep, Hunter Frederick, told People.

Lindsay still has a rep?

As something other than a bad girl?

The couple does seem to be living together, and Tarabasov has been a good influence on Lindsay's behavior and checkbook.

Egor's pa is multimillionaire Moscow businessman Dmitry Tarabasov, who owns a construction firm and a number of big-box home hardware stores, according to the New York Post.

As for Egor? "He's a trust-fund kid with a day job as a real estate agent. He has a generous allowance, but doesn't have his own money yet," a Russian source told the Post.

Grimes plays for Wizard

The Super Bowl has a concert. The NCAA Final Four has a concert. Big events these days aren't really big unless they have a concert.

And now, Wizard World Philadelphia has a concert.

In addition to a star-studded Comic Con running June 2-5 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Wizard is launching a con-related concert series here on June 3, with indie electronic artist Grimes performing at the Electric Factory. HANA will open.

It's part of Wizard's brand-extension.

Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Grimes is a female singer-songwriter whose recent albums, Visions (2012) and Art Angels (2015), have been hailed by the New York Times, Billboard, Pitchfork, Paste and Spin.

Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m.

* Wizard announced Tuesday that WWE stars John Cena Sheamus and The Bella Twins will be attending the Con.

Tattle book report

* If you remember those days in the late 1950s and early 1960s when Philadelphia was the music capital of America, be prepared to revel in the book Bandstand Diaries: The Philadelphia Years 1956 to 1963, coming this summer.

The book focuses on the "Regulars," the amateur dancers who made Bandstand a TV phenomenon and catapulted host Dick Clark to fame (and Los Angeles).

Written by popular Regular Arlene Sullivan and Sharon Sultan Cutler, the coffee-table book will look back at Arlene and Kenny, Bob and Justine, Frani, Carole, Pat, Joe, Billy, Frankie, Joe (not to be confused with the other Joe), Myrna and Flossie, and include 40 current interviews, 250 photos and tributes to Regulars who are now deceased.

So if you're getting nostalgic to spin your 45s and do the Twist, you can order Bandstand Diaries through an Indiegogo Crowdfunding campaign.

* A book project founded by director-writer Michael Mann has found a home with HarperCollins Publishers.

The Harper imprint William Morrow told the Associated Press on Tuesday that it had acquired three novels to be released through Michael Mann books. The novels, all co-authored by Mann and currently untitled, will include a collaboration with The Cartel author Don Winslow on a story based on the lives of crime bosses Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana and a prequel to Mann's original screenplay for his acclaimed thriller Heat.

"In my work, what always fuels my imagination is moving among the people and within the subcultures in which the story I'm telling actually takes place," said Mann, whose credits range from the TV series Miami Vice to The Insider and other feature films. "There have been characters, events, stories, which I thought were very rich, but which had to go untold."

TATTBIT

The New York Times reports that seven screen prints of Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup cans have been stolen from the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri. They'd been part of the collection since 1985.

Guess now you can say they're mmm-mmm gone.

-Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

gensleh@phillynews.com @DNTattle