Harris to write ‘imaginative’ memoir
Neil Patrick Harris’s memoir, coming in spring 2014 from Crown Archetype, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, will be “a work of imaginative nonfiction,” a news release says. It gets worse: This epic will bring us “an interactive, nonlinear reading experience that breaks the boundaries of conventional memoir ... [Harris will] draw upon his love of adventure and surprise in creating the book.”
Wow. As if writing your memoir at age 40 weren’t pretentious enough … Idol hosts have (bad) words: People who follow American Idol — you know who you are — are all excited about the big fuss on the set the other day, when Nicki Minaj began ranting, in language you couldn’t put on TV, at fellow judge Mariah Carey.
The New York Daily News says the two have been feuding for a while, and the dispute boiled over when they disagreed about some contestant.
Carey reportedly called Minaj a name, and Minaj’s response was, among other things, “If you’ve got a (bad word) problem, handle it! I told them, I’m not (bad word) putting up with her (bad word) highness over there,” etc. etc.
Carey’s 42, Minaj is 26. Girls star books on $1 million: The creator and star of HBO’s Girls, Lena Dunham, has set a floor price of $1 million for a book she hasn’t written yet. Working title: Not That Kind of Girl: Advice by Lena Dunham.
Slate website, said that in the book of essays Dunham will deal with topics including healthy eating, worrying about death, losing her virginity and “the most awkward date ever with an older director.”
She’s 26. Swift gift: Remember Taylor Swift’s getting pranked into playing a concert at a school for the deaf ? It was a contest: “Vote” online for your school and the one that wins gets a free show. Assorted nasty souls rigged it for the Horace Mann School for the Deaf, in Boston. Big joke on Swift. Organizers rejected those votes.
Swift, in her likable-celeb way, has given the school $10,000 and each student tickets to her next Boston show. Rowling’s digs for sale: That 19thcentury Edinburgh mansion where J.K. Rowling lives with her family? Turns out they’ve been living elsewhere for two years and now the joint is for sale, the Telegraph reports.
At least four of the Harry Potter books were written at the house, in Abbotsford Park. Now it can be yours, for just $3.6 million.