Demi Moore Set To Publish Memoir In 2012

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Hollywood actress Demi Moore is all set to go public in a memoir with details of her three marriages and showbusiness career spanning three decades.

HarperCollins said on Monday that it had bought world rights to a memoir by the actress that will cover her life and career. The book, as yet unnamed, is scheduled for release in 2012.

Business news website Crain’s New York.com quoted unidentified publishing industry executives with knowledge of the deal saying HarperCollins had agreed to pay more than $2 million for the book.

HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis declined to comment on the reported price tag.

Moore, 47, has starred in a list of movies including “Ghost,” “Indecent Proposal,” and “A Few Good Men,” as well as some widely-panned films such as “Striptease” and “G.I. Jane.”

The actress has in the past acknowledged a troubled upbringing and difficult relationship with her alcoholic mother, Virginia King, who died from a brain tumor in 1998.

Moore was once one the highest paid actresses in Hollywood and in 1991 controversially appeared naked and pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine.

Moore was married to singer-songwriter Freddy Moore for five years from whom she took her surname before marrying actor Bruce Willis in 1987, a marriage that lasted 13 years and resulted in three daughters, Rumer, Scout and Tallulah.

She married actor Ashton Kutcher, 32, in 2005.

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Record Price Paid for Superman Comic Book

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The record price for a comic book, already broken twice this year, has fallen again.

A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1 sold Monday for $1.5 million on the auction Web site ComicConnect.com. The issue features Superman’s debut and is widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books.

The same issue sold in February for $1 million. That number was quickly bested when a 1939 comic book featuring Batman’s debut sold for $1 million and change.

The issue that sold Monday was bought from a private collector and then sold by Stephen Fishler and Vincent Zurzolo, the co-owners of ComicConnect.com.

Fishler declined to name the buyer but said he was “a hardcore comic book fan.”

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Jude Law’s ‘Fury’ At Frost’s Autobiography

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Jude Law is reportedly fuming over his ex-wife Sadie Frost’s plans to reveal all about their marriage and subsequent divorce in a forthcoming autobiography.

The Alfie star was married to Frost for six years before they split in 2003 and now the fashion designer is set to lift the lid on their life together in her memoir.

But Law is not impressed and is said to be seeking legal advice from his girlfriend Sienna Miller’s lawyers about the book.

A source says,

“Jude has told Sadie that he wants to know exactly what is written about him. He is very worried that some of the revelations could be damaging to his career and upsetting for their children when they are old enough to read it.

“Jude… has consulted Sienna’s lawyers for advice. Sienna is also concerned because she doesn’t know what Sadie will say about her either.”

The autobiography will also discuss Frost’s childhood, career and celebrity pals, including supermodel Kate Moss.

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Jennie Garth to Pen Children’s Books

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Another children’s book author is coming out of Beverly Hills, 90210!

A week after Tori Spelling announced she was writing her first children’s book, Jennie Garth tells has signed on to pen some kids’ books as well.

“I just signed a two-book deal to start my own children’s books,”

the 37-year-old star said at a Milk + Bookies event in L.A. Sunday.

“So I’m really excited about that!”

The books, which will be targeted to kids ages 3 to 8, won’t hit bookshelves until February 2011, the mother of three girls — Luca, 12, Lola, 7, and Fiona, 3 — says. Garth says she

“can’t really say yet” what the books will be about “because we are still negotiating.”

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Lauren Conrad Tops Bestseller List

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Seems like anyone can write a book these days and have a bestseller.

Lauren Conrad’s second novel, “Sweet Little Lies,” hit number one on the New York Times Bestseller list this week.

“It’s so gratifying for my second book to be so successful and it was so fun to write! The characters were already developed, so I really enjoyed the process so much more this time around,” Conrad tells People magazine. “All the characters have become like my friends now.”

“Sweet Little Lies” was released earlier this month and is the follow up to Conrad’s debut novel, “L.A. Candy,” which also topped the list.

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JD Salinger Dead At 91

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Beloved author J.D. Salinger has died at the age of 91.

According to the writer’s son, Salinger passed away of natural causes at his home in New Hampshire on Wednesday.

The author is best known for his iconic 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, which spawned literary anti-hero Holden Caulfield, and reportedly inspired Mark David Chapman to shoot and kill John Lennon in 1980.

Salinger also wrote the novel Franny and Zooey, and the acclaimed novellas Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour – An Introduction.

His last published story, Hapworth 16, 1928, ran in The New Yorker in 1965.

In the last 30 years, the author turned into a recluse, who was rarely seen in public.

Born Jerome David Salinger on 1 January, 1919, in New York, the troubled youngster was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy as a teen and later served in the U.S. Army.

He published his first piece of fiction, The Young Folks, in Story magazine in 1940.

Last year, Salinger sued to halt publication of John David California’s 60 Years Later – an unauthorised sequel to Catcher in the Rye that revisited Holden Caulfield as an old man.

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Ashley Judd To Write Memoirs

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Actress Ashley Judd is writing her first autobiography – detailing her troubled childhood.

The star suffered depression as a youngster while her singer mother, Naomi, was away for long periods of time, touring the globe for her career.

Judd has spent her adult years concentrating on charity work, serving as a Global Ambassador for Population Services International’s Youth Aids program.

And now the star is putting pen to paper to explain how her early life inspired her to help abandoned children and women in poor countries.

She says,

“By sharing my own story along with those of the beautiful and resilient people I’ve met in the most desperate places, I want to show how the change we seek in the world must start within us.”

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