Karl Madden, Debbie Rowe Seeking Custody, J.D. Salinger Sues Successfully, Painkiller Ban, Kevin Jonas To Wed, Hilary Duff Gossip, Gisele Bundchen

Karl Madden has died. He was 97. Best known and likely remembered for his work on Quinn Martin Production television drama The Streets of San Francisco, alongside Michael Douglas, Madden won an Academy Award for his performance in A Streetcar Named Desire, co-starring Marlon Brando, a role he originated on Broadway and appeared again with Brando in the film On the Waterfront.

Debbie Rowe, the mother of Michael Jackson’s children, is said to be considering petitioning the courts for their custody, this despite fully relinquishing her rights as a parent eight years ago, telling a court then that she had the children solely for Jackson, saying “I did it for him to become a father, not for me to become a mother.” There are reports Rowe would consider fighting for the children only because she was “deliberately” left out of Jackson’s will.

A United States judge has banned publication and distribution in America of a book that pretended to be an original critical work, but was in fact a sequel to J.D. Salinger’s classic Catcher in the Rye. Salinger, famously reclusive, argued that the novel Mr. C-, which was based around a character indentified as Mr. C – who, aged 79, escapes from a retirement home to New York City, reliving the same scenario as Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of Catcher in the Rye, did as a teenager. Salinger argued that the novel, written by a Mr. Colting, was a “rip off,” the judge agreeing that it was a literary infringement.

An American advisory board has argued that two of the most prescribed prescription pain killers should be banned – Percocet and Vicodin – because of the damage both cause to the liver.

Kevin Jonas is engaged! To a woman! I know! Seriously!

Hilary Duff – yes, the Duffster – is joining Gossip Girl! Miss Hilary will appear in a multi-episode are, beginning on October 4th.

Gisele Bundchen, out and about in Santa Monica Wednesday, arousing suspicion that either she is not – not – pregnant or that she is a supermodel and issues normally associated with pregnancy like weight gain are for mere mortals.