'Kite Runner' novelist's new book due in spring

Khaled Hosseini, author of the million-selling novel "The Kite Runner," will have a new book, "A Thousand Splendid Suns," next spring.
"In some ways, the writing of 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' was an even more satisfying experience for me than the writing of 'The Kite Runner,' because it was a more complex and ultimately unexpected journey," said Hosseini, an Afghan-born physician who lives in San Jose, Calif.
"The Kite Runner," the story of two boys who grow up together in the Afghan capital of Kabul, sold modestly when released as a hardcover in 2003, but word of mouth made it a sensation in paperback, with 4 million copies in print, according to Riverhead Books.

A funeral was held in the Bahamas for Anna Nicole Smith's son on Thursday, nearly six weeks after he mysteriously died while visiting his reality TV star mother. A hearse brought the body of 20-year-old Daniel Smith to the cemetery, where the mahogany casket was whisked inside a large green tent for the service.

Jeffrey Sebelia, the guy viewers loved to hate, won Bravo's "Project Runway" fashion competition.
Sebelia, 36, snagged the title after he, Laura Bennett, Uli Herzner and Michael Knight (the fan favorite) staged presentations during New York Fashion Week in the final showdown. Sebelia impressed supermodel host Heidi Klum and judges Michael Kors, Nina Garcia and Fern Mallis with his innovative, funky runway collection.

According to statement released by a London law firm, Vince Vaughn will file a "legal complaint" against a tabloid trio - the New York Post and the Britain-based Daily Mirror and the Sun - that said he was seen kissing a "mystery blonde" at an Oct. 8 charity event in London and had called it quits with Jennifer Aniston.
Sharon Osbourne says she plans to remove a gastric band that helped her lose 125 pounds and instead rely on psychotherapy to cope with her weight issues.

"I have to figure out why I do what I do to myself," the wife and manager of rocker Ozzy Osbourne tells People. "I think I have some sort of self-destruction button."
Osbourne says she has indulged in "chocolate, French fries and junk food" instead of sticking to the nutritious diet required of gastric-band patients.

Lindsay Lohan has a 10-year plan. "I want to get married before I'm 30," the 20-year-old actress tells In Style. "And have my house.

And make the kind of record I want. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then."
In July, Lohan was publicly scolded by a studio executive for her absences on the set of the movie, "Georgia Rule.

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She says she went out for a friend's birthday after a day of filming in intense heat. "I tried to please my friend and I ended up getting sick. It's about learning to say no more than yes.