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Helen Fielding, 48, the creative force behind the book “Bridget Jones’ Diary,” welcomed her second child and first daughter on Sunday in Los Angeles, her publicist said on Tuesday. People magazine reported a 6-pound, 3-ounce daughter was born Sunday to the 48-year-old author and her husband, “Simpsons” executive producer Kevin Curran. “Mother and daughter are both doing fine, and everyone is delighted,” the publicist added.

This is the second child for Helen and her longtime partner Kevin Curran, 49 - they also have a son Dashiell, 2 1/2. Curran is an Emmy-winning writer who has worked on The Simpsons, Married with Children and The Late Show with David Letterman. Read more!

Daniel Pearl life is the subject of two Hollywood movies in the pipeline, and Josh Lucas has been picked up to star in an untitled thriller under director Kip Williams (Door in the Floor). The thriller will be inspired by the Bernard-Henri Levy book titled Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
This movie is based on French author Bernard-Henri Levy’s book Who Killed Daniel Pearl? in which Levy describes his investigations in Pakistan that lead him to conclude that Pearl was actually killed because he uncovered a nexus between the Pakistani Inter Service Intelligence, ISI, agency and Al Qaeda.

Pearl’s character has been fictionalised and Levy has been changed into an American television presenter who gets his hands dirty looking for an answer to why Pearl was killed.
The reason for the fictionalisation is that the movie-makers did not want a clash with the other film being made on Pearl’s life, based on the book by his widow Marianne Pearl, A Mighty Heart.

The project will be produced by Beacon CEO Charlie Lyons with production set to begin this fall. Some of the locations beings scouted for the shoot are Morocco, Dubai, India, Libya and Tunisia.

After Oprah Winfrey publicly drummed the discredited memoirist James Frey’s Million Little out of her book club, Warner Bros announced that they were thinking about going forward with a planned film adaptation of Frey’s A Million Little Pieces.

Warner Bros President, Alan Horn said, “We’re reevaluating our position on what to do. Obviously, we watch Oprah and, like everybody else, we’re aware of the change in authenticity of this piece.” Read more!

Kate Moss, British supermodel, at the center of a scandal last year after being filmed apparently snorting cocaine, has agreed to publish her autobiography.

A right-hand man of Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, Will Whitehorn, said Moss had agreed the terms of a deal with Branson and Virgin Books will publish her autobiography early days, although there was no indication of when the book would appear on the shelves. Stories on the Internet have estimated the deal at being worth between $1 million and $2 million. Read more!

Oprah Winfrey with her powerful TV talk show, threw her support to embattled author James Frey on Wednesday, saying a national uproar over whether he fictionalized parts of his best-selling memoir was “much ado about nothing.”

Appearing as a surprise caller on CNN’s “Larry King Live” after King had gently quizzed Frey for nearly an hour, Winfrey broke her silence over whether his “A Million Little Pieces” was still a choice of her book club and had her endorsement. Read more!