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Michelle Williams' Reading of Spears Memoir Is Getting Attention

Actor is making headlines for her reading of audiobook, especially one Timberlake snippet

(Newser) - Britney Spears' new memoir continues to make headlines , and now the audiobook for The Woman in Me, released Tuesday, is making news of its own. It's narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Michelle Williams, whose readings are now going viral, particularly one snippet involving Spears' ex, Justin Timberlake. That clip, per...

More Big Reveals From Britney Spears' Memoir

Further details on her abortion, her friendship with Madonna, and that snake from MTV's VMAs

(Newser) - Britney Spears' memoir, The Woman in Me, was released Tuesday, and some of the buzzier nuggets had already been circulating in advance—including the revelation that the singer had an abortion years ago when she was dating Justin Timberlake. More details are now out on that latter disclosure, per People...

Will Smith Reacts to Jada&#39;s Memoir


Will Smith Reacts
to Jada's Memoir
Oct 16, 2023 2:00 AM CDT

Will Smith Reacts to Jada's Memoir

'If I had read this book 30 years ago, I definitely would have hugged you more'

(Newser) - So how does Will Smith feel about Jada Pinkett Smith's upcoming memoir , which reveals the couple secretly separated in 2016 ? That's just one of the book's reveals—it also delves into struggles in Pinkett Smith's past, including her challenges as a teen in Baltimore, her...

How Sex on the Juno Set Helped Elliot Page


How Sex on the
Juno Set Helped
Elliot Page
the rundown
Jun 9, 2023 11:54 AM CDT

How Sex on the Juno Set Helped Elliot Page

Trans actor opens up about family estrangement, intense societal pressures in new memoir

(Newser) - Elliot Page found his breakout role in 2007's Juno and nearly quit show business as a result. Under the media's gaze, the Canadian actor was "made to feel that I was inadequate, erroneous, the little queer who needed to be tucked away," the 36-year-old writes in...

Liz Cheney Has a Book Coming
Liz Cheney Has a 'Warning'
Apr 18, 2023 1:55 PM CDT

Liz Cheney Has a 'Warning'

Ousted House Republican's memoir, 'Oath and Honor,' is out in November

(Newser) - Former Rep. Liz Cheney has a memoir and a "warning" coming out this fall. In Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, she'll write about her estrangement from former President Trump and the Republican Party in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 siege of the US Capitol,...

Sam Neill Makes Big Reveal in Memoir: 'I'm Not Off the Hook'

'Jurassic Park' actor will need chemo for life in blood cancer battle, though he's now in remission

(Newser) - Sam Neill's memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This? , will be released Tuesday, but the Guardian got an advance copy, and one line in particular jumped out: "The thing is, I'm crook. Possibly dying. I may have to speed this up." In a sit-down with Neill...

Pam Anderson Isn&#39;t Who You Think She Is
Pam Anderson
Isn't Who You
Think She Is
OPINION
Jan 27, 2023 11:38 AM CST

Pam Anderson Isn't Who You Think She Is

'LAT' op-ed says new memoir, documentary show a survivor who doesn't dwell on the past

(Newser) - Prince Harry's memoir has been all the rage this month, but another one is about to drop that's already stealing away some of those headlines. Love, Pamela, penned by Baywatch star Pamela Anderson, is set for release on Tuesday, as is Pamela: A Love Story , a complementary documentary...

Harry's Spare Had a Very Good First Week

Prince's memoir sold more than 3.2M copies worldwide

(Newser) - If Prince Harry was worried that leaks of his new memoir ahead of its Jan. 10 release would hurt sales, he needn't have fretted. Spare ended up selling upward of 3.2 million copies around the globe in its first week, and the AP notes the book will probably...

Harry's Much-Leaked Memoir Breaks a Record Anyway

For first-day sales of nonfiction books in the UK

(Newser) - The early leak of Prince Harry's memoir didn't stop it from breaking the UK record for first-day sales of a nonfiction book, which it did on Tuesday when it was released. "We always knew this book would fly but it is exceeding even our most bullish expectations,...

Prince Harry: For the Palace, &#39;Truth Didn&#39;t Matter&#39;
Prince Harry:
For the Palace,
'Truth Didn't Matter'
THE RUNDOWN
Jan 10, 2023 7:35 AM CST

Prince Harry: For the Palace, 'Truth Didn't Matter'

He describes falsities, Charles planting unflattering stories about his sons

(Newser) - Then-Prince Charles awoke his 12-year-old son to tell him his mother had died in a car crash—but he didn't hug him. "He wasn't great at showing emotions under normal circumstances. How could he be expected to show them in such a crisis?" Prince Harry writes in...

Harry Talks Losing His Virginity, Using Psychic to Talk to Mom

War kills, bigotry, 'the other woman' also come up in memoir 'Spare'

(Newser) - To say Prince Harry opens up in his new memoir is surely an understatement. In addition to revealing a physical altercation with his brother , he discusses feeling the "absence of love and affection in our home" as a child, using cocaine at 17, losing his virginity in a field...

Pence: 'We Will Have Better Choices' Than Trump

Former VP says voters want 'new leadership' in 2024

(Newser) - Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that voters are "looking for new leadership" following the disappointing midterm elections for Republicans, who are now openly debating whether his onetime boss, Donald Trump, should maintain a leading role in the party. In an interview with the AP , Pence implicitly positioned...

Prince Harry's Memoir Gets a Fitting Title

Book will be called 'Spare,' a reference to his position as younger brother to a future king

(Newser) - Prince Harry's memoir—which he once promised to be an "accurate and wholly truthful" account of his life, including "the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned"—is coming Jan. 10. On Thursday, his publishers announced it would be called Spare, an apparent nod to...

Posthumous Memoir Reveals Paul Newman Nobody Knew
Posthumous Memoir Reveals
Paul Newman Nobody Knew
book review
Oct 18, 2022 4:26 PM CDT

Posthumous Memoir Reveals Paul Newman Nobody Knew

It's 'surprising for its candor and vulnerability,' writes NYT's Dave Itzkoff

(Newser) - Paul Newman has a posthumous memoir, and it reveals a man “dogged by self-doubt, perpetually questioning his choices, and plagued by past mistakes,” according to Dave Itzkoff of the New York Times . As Itzkoff notes, the book is not a product of Newman “sitting down at a...

Jolie Tipped Off Photog for First Brangelina Scoop

'Rolling Stone' co-founder Jann Wenner dishes celebrity tales in memoir out Tuesday

(Newser) - Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner has a lot of celebrity anecdotes—some of which he's exposing in an upcoming memoir. Perhaps the juiciest tidbit to come out of Like a Rolling Stone involves the 2000s love triangle that was Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie. Wenner, who formerly...

Hunter Biden's 'Ultra-Private' Ex-Wife Finally Opens Up

Kathleen Buhle releases her memoir, 'If We Break,' on June 14

(Newser) - If the name Kathleen Buhle doesn't ring a bell, perhaps the 53-year-old's former name will: Kathleen Biden. The ex-wife of Hunter Biden is a couple weeks away from releasing If We Break, which Vanity Fair reported in January would mark the first time Buhle spoke publicly about the...

Conway Spills on George, Kushner, Trump in New Book

'America will survive. George and I may not,' ex-WH counsel writes in 'Here's the Deal,' out Tuesday

(Newser) - Kellyanne Conway has a new book coming out this week, and one of the people she goes after most is the one she lives with. "I had two men in my life," Conway writes in Here's the Deal, due out from Simon and Schuster on Tuesday, per...

Selma Blair: I Got Drunk at Age 7, Kept Drinking

The actor got sober in 2016

(Newser) - Actor Selma Blair has been very public about her battle with MS. Now she's going public with all the battles that have come before it. In new memoir Mean Baby, Blair recounts getting drunk at age 7, decades of alcohol addiction, numerous rapes, and suicide attempts. She provided People ...

Ex-DOD Chief Esper Writes of 'Surreal' Incident With Trump

Former defense secretary writes in memoir that Trump wanted to shoot George Floyd protesters

(Newser) - Mark Esper was fired as defense secretary by then-President Trump shortly after the 2020 election. But while Esper's stint heading up the Pentagon was short—he'd been sworn in during the summer of 2019—he was still witness to some notable events in his time under No. 45,...

'The Deal Is One of the Biggest of All Time'

Britney Spears reportedly lands $15M book deal

(Newser) - Britney Spears has scored a $15 million book deal, publishing insiders tell Page Six . The sources say the deal was made after a bidding war that Simon & Schuster won. "The deal is one of the biggest of all time, behind the Obamas," says one source. A source...

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