SHOW B I Z

As if poor Courtney Love

didn’t have enough problems, now her mother has written a book. Her Mother’s Daughter, by Linda Carroll, will be out in January. Teasers are already circulating and the New York Post’s examples make Love, pictured, seem like a real victim: Her parents, hippies, split up when she was one year old. Carroll finally got a restraining order to keep her dad away from her, after he gave her “magic pills” when she was four. She started therapy at age six, got drunk at age 12, got thrown out of every school she was in, became increasingly violent and got into cutting herself, had drug trouble, worked as a stripper … on and on it goes. Remember Kate Moss?

Blonde model? Got into drug trouble and suddenly vanished, except Ron Howard’s maybe going to do a movie? She must by now be hoping very hard that he will make the picture, because she’s nowhere in the modelling racket: she just lost H. Stern, the jewellery company. She was to have been in their 60thanniversary ad campaign, but then some front-office guy said: “H. Stern strongly condemns any type of drug use and abides by a long- standing policy of zero policy of any substance abuse.” It’s a separation for One Tree Hill stars Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush, after a fivemonth marriage. We don’t know

who dumped whom. Sophia’s

PR person made the

announcement, which

Chad then confirmed.

This follows weeks of

chatter about trouble

between the two. He’s

24, she’s 23. Doug

Camilli, CanWest

News Service