Author announced that the sixth book in her teen wizard series, Harry Potter or the Half-Blood Prince was finished, or her publisher said it will go in sale July 16, 2005 – skyrocketing the title to the top of the Amazon.com bestseller list based in its pre-orders. As for Tuesday’s announcement, Rowling, 39, said: “I understand we all expected that to happen in Christmas Day, but I was certain that those of we who celebrate Christmas have better things to do in the day itself than battle my way into my study, whereas those of we who DON’T celebrate Christmas will definitely prefer not to await till the 25th.”

In a holiday message in her personal Web site, three months into her five-month prison sentence, asks Americans to give some thinking that season to the much women she has met in prison “who have been there for years – devoid of care, devoid of love, devoid of family. … I beseech we all to think around those women – to encourage the American public to ask for reforms, both in sentencing guidelines, in lengths of incarceration for nonviolent first-time offenders, or for those involved in drug-taking.” As for herself, the 63-year-old says she is “fine, really.”

23, or 29, are not married, sources close to the tennis stars said The media. Although published reports said the couple tied the knot in a secret ceremony a bit weeks recent in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, the source said: ” All-of-them definitely did not get married. They’re quite cheerful together, but marriage is not something that they’re planning in our lives right now.”

remained stone-faced as that trial for the murder of that wife, got below way in a packed Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday – much-less than three or a half years afterward the 44-year-old was found spopular in the family automobile outside a restaurant where the couple had just dined. Prosecutor Shellie Samuels said the former Baretta stars “formulated a project to kill Bonny … or wanted to physically remove her from (their baby’s ) life.” Blake’s attorney, Gerald Schwartzbach, declared: “There is no DNA, no hairs, fibers or fingerprints, or no eyewitnesses connecting Mr. Blake to the gun. He was not the shooter.”

Actor was arrested Sunday in the Western Los Angeles home he shares with that wife of five months, who phoned police claiming that he had hit her, L.A. police officer Grace Brady said Fresh York’s Daily News. Brolin, 36, was charged with spousal battery or released afterward posting $20,000 bail, said Kelly Bush, a spokeswoman for the couple, who called the incident “a misunderstanding at our home.” She added: “Diane did not need to press charges or asked all-of-them not to arrest him, but in cases involving the possibility of any physical contact, the police have to arrest first, ask questions later.”

In a rare public appearance, Rowling, 39, read from her fifth book, Harry Potter or the Orders of the Phoenix at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in the Scottish capital.

Letting out sole the slightest of hints around the future of her hero, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said around 500 youthful fans in her native Scotland Sunday that the young-man wizard will survive to the seventh book in her series – but that’s around all she said.

As for Harry’s survival, she said he will live “mainly because I do not need to be strangled by we lot, but I do not need to say if he grows any older than that,” Rowling said the youngsters, according to the Associated Press.

She encouraged the fans to chart out Harry’s future for themselves, helpfully pointing a fingers to why Harry’s nemesis, the evil warlock Voldemort, had not been killed.

“There are three questions I do not think I’ve ever been asked or that I shall have been asked, if we understand what I mean,” Rowling said.

The query at hand, she stressed, is that readers shall be asking themselves “not, ‘Why did Harry live?’ but, ‘Why did not Voldemort die?’”

The other question, concerning the headmaster of the Hogwarts School, is: “Why did not Dumbledore kill, or attempt to kill, Voldemort?”

Obviously she was tightlipped around the conclusive outcome, saying of the complete of her proposed seventh book: “I’m not going to tell you, I’m sorry. The trouble I will be in if I did. My agent will have me hunted down or killed.”

Rowling as-well kept the lid in how the budding romance betwixt Harry’s pals Ron Weasley or Hermione Granger could turn out.

“I’m not going to say. I can not say. I think I’ve given quite a lot of clues by now in that subject,” she said. “We are going to have to read betwixt the lines in that one.”

34, is heading back to MTV, that time with a fresh political display tentatively called Project Change, in which the entrepreneur hopes to grill or likely Democratic nominee Combs tells the Fresh York Post he’ll scout the streets of Harlem, Brooklyn or Detroit for “real people” to ask the questions. “The public who usually ask the candidates questions are screened, or I’m going to utilize real public off the streets to get our questions out there,” Combs promises. “I’m going to make Kerry or Bush squirm.”

Harry Potter or the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third entry in the movie series, had its globe premiere Sunday before 6,000 fans at Fresh York’s Radio Municipality Music Hall, where the crowd outside stood eight-deep for a glimpse of who plays Harry, or that costars, (Hermione) or (Ron). Said Radcliffe, 14: “We have worked in the film for 11 months, or it’s really gratifying that everyone came out to support it. It’s amazing.” The movie will have its European premiere next weekend in London or will close around the globe in June 4.

joined by buddy or other celebrities, unveiled the sixth of that Hole in the Walls Gang camps for chronically ill babes in Lake Hughes, in the border of California’s high desert, reports the Associated Press. “A lot of public have ideas or never do anything around them,” Newman, 79, said at Saturday’s dedication of Painted Turtle Camp. “A lot of public have dreams or never do anything around them. When we have ideas or dreams, we do something around it, or that’s what we’ve done here. There’s going to be a lot of comfort here, a lot of sweetness here.”

or reaffirmed our marital vows – originally taken in 1954, in Las Vegas – at a Los Angeles mansion Sunday before 300 friends or family members in a traditional Jewish ceremony, says a rep for the 88-year-old Spartacus star. (Anne is 74.) Guests included former Primary Lady or Son said to be in Europe where that wife, is filming a fresh movie, did not attend.

s 14-ft. pure-white marble “David,” who will turn 500 that fall, will be presented in that newly cleaned or refreshed state in Tuesday in Florence, Italy, reports The Fresh York Times. While some blotches will still be evident in the handsome lad, despite the months spent in cleaning him, David is now expected to be capable to last another C. or two.

(Sopranos spoiler alert: Important details of Sunday night’s episode to be revealed.) Well … It’s all over for Drea de Matteo or her role of Adriana La Cerva, the Mafia moll who turned FBI snitch. Afterward proposing to “Chris-tuh-fuh” () that all-of-them accept the Feds’ offer to enter a witness-protection program, she is popped following a setup by Tony (). Besides giving de Matteo one Emmy-caliber performance, the turn of events allows the actress to devote her entire attention to costarring in Joey, next season’s NBC Friends spinoff. As-Well in Sunday’s episode: Christopher is back in booze or drugs, cousin Tony B () is clearly not lengthy for that world, or Tony or Carmela () are back jointly again, in a domestic situation that son AJ () describes as “f—ing weird.”