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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Bill Pullman is about to enter familiar territory: The White House. Pullman -- who played President Thomas J. Whitmore in the 1996 film "Independence Day" -- will again play the nation's chief executive in NBC's upcoming pilot "1600 Penn." The pilot, which is co-created and executive-produced …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roy Lichtenstein's comic book-inspired painting "Sleeping Girl," is expected to fetch up to $40 million when it is sold at auction in New York in May, Sotheby's said on Friday. The 1964 close-up painting of a sexy blonde woman is part of a series by Lichtenstein and considered one of the great works …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Woody Allen's 1994 film "Bullets Over Broadway" explored the travails of an aspiring playwright struggling to bring his creation to the Great White Way. And now, in a possible case of art imitating, um, art, Allen is working on a musical adaptation of the film, with a Broadway premiere tentatively …

TOKYO (Reuters) - Korean-American Janie's family has lost a daughter in each generation, her grandmother says. So when her younger sister Hannah suddenly vanishes, Janie sets out to track her down through a labyrinth of family secrets and difficult history. "Forgotten Country," Catherine Chung's debut novel, weaves Korean …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Like any savvy celebrity worth his multimedia platform, Stephen Colbert has a children's book. "I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)" will be published by Grand Central Publishing on May 8. The book started as a joke during Colbert's "Colbert Report" interview with bestselling children's author Maurice …

The release date for an upcoming memoir by the late New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid has been moved up from late March to the end of February.

LOS ANGELES, Feb 17 (TheWrap.com) - The estate of science-fiction author Philip K. Dick dropped its lawsuit against the makers of the 2011 film "The Adjustment Bureau" on Friday, according to court papers obtained by TheWrap. In the papers, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, the Philip K. Dick Testamentary Trust …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Pat Buchanan is officially out as a commentator for MSNBC, after being suspended from the network for controversial statements in his most recent book. The network confirmed that it had severed ties with conservative icon and former presidential candidate Buchanan, saying in a statement, "After …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amanda Knox, the American former college student cleared of murder in October by an Italian court, has sold her memoir to HarperCollins, a spokeswoman for the publishing house said on Thursday. The HarperCollins spokeswoman declined to comment on financial terms of the deal or elaborate on plans for …

Amanda Knox has agreed to a nearly $4 million book deal about her trial and imprisonment in Italy for the murder of her British roommate.

After the big success of "Killing Lincoln," Bill O'Reilly is back on the case of a presidential assassination.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Green-eyed, blonde and tall, Kathy Mallory is respected and feared by the cops who work with her, described sometimes as a cat playing with a mouse and nicknamed "Mallory the Machine." Even her creator, author Carol O'Connell, says she's not entirely sure how much she might actually like her own heroine …

After the big success of "Killing Lincoln," Bill O'Reilly is back on the case of a presidential assassination.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Under pressure from U.S. legislators, Apple Inc moved Wednesday to quell a swelling privacy controversy by saying that it will begin to require iPhone and iPad apps to seek "explicit approval" in separate user prompts before accessing users' address book data. Apple's move came shortly after two …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 15 (TheWrap.com) - Comedian Jim Gaffigan is taking a page from the book of his comedy cohort Louis C.K.: Gaffigan will distribute his upcoming stand-up special, "Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe," for $5-per-download on his website. Gaffigan announced the plans via Twitter and his WhoSay page, where he also said …

The author of a history of Jews in the Soviet Union has won a $100,000 award.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Jonathan Liebesman, who directed the 2011 "Battle Los Angeles" and the upcoming "Wrath of the Titans," is in talks to direct "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," TheWrap has confirmed. The movie is a live-action version of the popular comic book and television series. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" …

One thing 14-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin dislikes is being called a genius.

Special Olympics CEO Tim Shriver is taking time off to write a book about the athletes he says have changed his life.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Even Comic Book Guy would have to be impressed with this show of support by two "Simpsons" fans: Jeremiah Franco and Carin Shreve have set a new Guinness World Record for longest continuous television viewing by watching 86 hours and 37 minutes of the Fox 'toon. The marathon viewing session was …

Special Olympics CEO Tim Shriver is taking time off to write a book about the athletes he says have changed his life.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - With all the Grammy-night focus on Whitney and Adele, a rather remarkable accomplishment took place on Sunday night without much notice: Scott Rudin won a Grammy for producing the original cast album to the Broadway show "The Book of Mormon." By itself, the Grammy would be just another award …

Airline pilot Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger remembered his friend, best-selling author Jeffrey Zaslow, during a funeral at a Detroit-area synagogue.