Judge blocks US publication of book billed as sequel to classic ‘Catcher in the Rye’

October 2nd, 2009 Seminal horror movie BLAIR WITCH PROJECT is set for a 10th anniversary sequel, with the original directors behind a new concept. The low-budget 1999 movie was an instant cult hit and now co-directors Ed Sanchez and Dan Myrick have revealed they plan to follow the success of the original.

October 1st, 2009 Pooh, Christopher Robin reunited in new bookLONDON — When we left them, Christopher Robin was going away, and Things were going to be Different. Now, more than eight decades later, a rumor is sweeping the Hundred Acre Wood.

October 1st, 2009 Palin cover unveiledNEW YORK — You know the title, now see the cover of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue." The former Alaska governor's memoir, a top-seller online weeks before publication, will feature an outdoor shot of Palin, wearing an American flag pin on her red fleece top, eyes turned slightly from the camera as she smiles confidently into the horizon, a patchwork of Alaska blue sky and clouds behind her. The image was released Thursday by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins.

September 20th, 2009 MICHAEL SHEEN partly based his TWILIGHT sequel vampire king character on the dastardly child catcher from CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG. The Brit, who has mastered the voices of Tony Blair, David Frost and soccer icon Brian Clough for movies, admits he read Stephenie Meyer's books for clues about how his character, Arrow, should sound in The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

September 13th, 2009 THE HILLS star AUDRINA PATRIDGE pulled out of Sunday night's (13Sep09) MTV Video Music Awards after learning she was billed to present a prize with arch-rival KRISTIN CAVALLARI. The actress/model was told she'd be presenting alone, and when she discovered Cavallari would be appearing alongside her onstage, she cancelled.

September 10th, 2009 NY judge: Seinfeld cookbook not an illegal copycatNEW YORK — A New York judge has tossed out a cookbook author's claim that comedian Jerry Seinfeld's wife was a culinary copycat when she came out with one of her own. Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain on Thursday threw out a lawsuit brought against the Seinfeld couple by author Missy Chase Lapine.

September 7th, 2009 MADONNA has reportedly reconciled with her estranged brother CHRISTOPHER CICCONE - a year after he published an expose of their life together. The Holiday hitmaker was allegedly furious over Ciccone's tell-all book, Life With My Sister Madonna, last year (08), which lifted the lid on the star's private affairs.

August 13th, 2009 E-book of new Dan Brown novel coming Sept. 15NEW YORK — E-book readers can relax: The electronic edition of Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol" is coming out on the same day as the hardcover.

August 7th, 2009 Comedian Adam Carolla to publish a book of rantsLOS ANGELES — Adam Carolla has something to complain about. His spokesman, Lewis Kay, says the former disc jockey, "Dancing With the Stars" contestant and "The Man Show" co-host is writing a book of rants.

July 25th, 2009 Oldman dishes on 'Dark Knight' sequel shootingSAN DIEGO — Gary Oldman had come to Comic-Con to support "The Book of Eli," but is dishing about "The Dark Knight" instead. The 51-year-old actor says the sequel to Batman the mega-hit will start shooting next year and likely be released the following.

July 24th, 2009 Author seeks court OK to publish Salinger spinoffNEW YORK — A Swedish author has asked a federal appeals court in New York to let him publish a book he claims is a parody of J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." Fredrik Colting was blocked by a federal judge earlier this month from publishing in the United States his novel "60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye." Colting said in his appeal filed Thursday that the judge erred in concluding that his book infringed Salinger's copyright.

July 8th, 2009 NEW YORK - Veteran TV news anchor Rita Cosby's book on Anna Nicole Smith has been blasted by a federal judge, who said that her claims of the late model watching a video of her boyfriend having sex with lawyer Howard K. Stern were 'preposterous'.

June 19th, 2009 NEW YORK - Veteran rock deejay Pete Fornatale has penned a book on Woodstock Festival 40 years after the legendary rockfest shook fans all over the world. Fornatale attempts to segregate fiction from "400,000 versions of the truth" in his Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock.

June 17th, 2009 NY judge weighs JD Salinger disputeNEW YORK — A U.S. judge says she's troubled by substantial similarities between J.D.

May 31st, 2009 LONDON - Jerome David "JD" Salinger is in talks with his legal team regarding the publication of another author's unauthorised sequel to his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger, who has been living in isolation in rural New Hampshire for more than half a century and is famous for his reclusive nature, turned to lawyers about the new book "60 Years Later: oming Through the Rye", penned by a Swedish-American debut novelist John David California.