Books News & Pictures

Columbia Pictures has enlisted the expertise of screenwriters Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander to script the studio’s big screen adaptation of Goosebumps, the children’s horror book series made famous by author R.L Stine.
Producers are planning to cast a selection of unknown child actor in the lead roles, similar to the Harry Potter franchise, according [...]

The tell-all memoir from Britney and Jamie Lynn’s “Mama” is finally seeing the light of day.

A blast from the past is threatening Britney Spears’ sobriety as former pal Sam Lutfi shops an “explosive tell-all” about the star’s spiral into despair.
Sam is ready to drop bombshells about sex and drugs-and offer a unique intimate peek inside the 26-year-old singer’s shocking meltdown earlier this year, according to a Star Magazine insider.

Scorned celebrity sib Christopher Ciccone still has a bone to pick with his pop legend sister. Madonna’s bro has started a blog to dish delicious morsels of dirt on Madge that failed to make it into his New York Times Best-Selling tell-all, Life with My Sister Madonna.
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Candy Spelling has confirmed the NY Post’s early Thursday morning scoop disclosing the details of her forthcoming tell-all book.
“It’s true,” Candy says. “I am close to signing a deal to write a book. But everyone should hold on. I have lots of stories I’ve never told, and they will all be in my book!”