Julianne Moore to play Sarah Palin

Julianne Moore has been cast to play former US Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin in HBO’s new flick ‘Game Change’. Based on the best-selling book of the same name by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, the film is about the 2008 US elections and follows Senator John McCain’s presidential bid from his selection of then Alaska Governor Palin as his running mate to their defeat in the general election. This film will be directed by Jay Roach, director of the "Meet the Parents" movies as well as the HBO film "Recount." And the scriptwriter is Danny Strong who has won an Emmy for his screenplay of "Recount," about the 2000 presidential election.

Jay Roach will direct the film from a script by Danny Strong. They previously worked together on HBO’s ‘Recount’, which followed the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election.

Bristol Palin to pen down intimate memoir

US glamorous politician Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol Palin has signed a deal to pen a memoir which her publisher describes as the first "intimate, behind-the-scenes look at her life". The book, ‘Not Afraid of Life’, will be published this summer, publisher William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, has said, declining to say how much it was worth. In the book, "Bristol gives readers an intimate behind-the-scenes look at her life for the first time, from growing up in Alaska to coming of age amid the media and political frenzy surrounding her mother’s political rise". Portions of the book will also deal with the 20-year-old single mother’s on-and off romance with the father of her child, Levi Johnston, and her stint on ABC’s TV show ‘Dancing with the Stars’.

"Plain-spoken and disarmingly down to earth, Bristol offers new insight and understanding of who she is and what she values most," the statement added. Bristol made headlines last year when she reached the finals of ‘Dancing with the Stars’, in which she ended in third place. She’s also a paid speaker for organisations which support teen abstinence from sex before marriage.

She also appeared last year on her mother’s television show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”.

Sarah, the former Alaska governor and the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008, is a leading voice in the conservative Tea Party movement and is weighing a run for US president in 2012.

Sarah Palin to write her memoir

Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor pulled from the US political periphery onto the 2008 Republican presidential ticket, has signed a deal to write her memoirs with HarperCollins.

Palin, who was Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential pick, did not disclose how much she would be paid by the publisher, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

"This is an incredible opportunity and I am excited to work with HarperCollins to tell my story and Alaska’s story," Palin said in a statement.

"There have been so many things written and said through mainstream media that have not been accurate, and it will be nice through an unfiltered forum to get to speak truthfully about who we are and what we stand for and what Alaska is all about," Palin said in an interview.

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