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Actress Ashley Judd is writing her first book, detailing how painful childhood experiences led her to advocacy work for abandoned women and children in poor countries, the memoir's publisher said on Tuesday.

Judd, 41, the star of 1999 thriller "Double Jeopardy", will draw upon 500 pages of journal entries she wrote about healing losses from a fractured childhood spent in Kentucky and Tennessee with her country music star mother, Naomi Judd.

Judd, who has recently concentrated more on university studies and humanitarian causes than acting, said her early experiences inspired her work abroad as global ambassador for prevention program Youth AIDS.

"By sharing my own story along with those of the beautiful and resilient people I've met in the most desperate places, I want to show how the change we seek in the world must start within us," Judd said in a statement released by publisher Ballantine Books, a division of Random House Inc.

The as yet untitled memoir is due to be released in 2011.

Judd was treated for depression in 2006. She told Glamour magazine at the time that attending 13 schools in 12 years and living at various times with her mother, father and grandmother made her "a hyper-vigilant child" and obsessed with perfectionism as an adult.

Judd, whose half-sister Wynonna Judd also made a career in country music, has appeared on the big screen in only a handful of films since 2006, including "Tooth Fairy" which was released last week.

Judd is married to Scottish racing car driver Dario Franchitti. She is currently enrolled at Harvard University working toward a mid-career masters in public administration.

(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Jill Serjeant)

A cast that includes Dwayne Johnson, Billy Crystal, Julie Andrews and Ashley Judd can't make for anything other than an intriguing prospect, right? See if you still think that having watched the trailer for Michael Lembeck's Tooth Fairy.

As you'll gather, this is a high concept (think "Arnie pregnant!") family comedy in which The Dwayne plays a cynical hockey player who gets co-opted into a stint as a tooth fairy. With hilarious consequences. Because, like, Dwayne is big and hard, and he has to be a little delicate tooth fairy. We wish he'd go back to smashing things up with a plank of wood. What happened to Action Dwayne? Is he coming back?

There are many extraordinary things about this clip, not least of which is the sight of The ex-Rock sharing a scene with Stephen Merchant. But what surprised us most was that we did actually laugh at the bit with the amnesia spray. It's so good to see Billy Crystal again. Even in this. 

We raised some other smiles too, to be honest, so just maybe there's hope here. Some Christmas, take-the-kids goodwill would have seemed like it would go in Tooth Fairy's favour. But it's out next May. Oh.

 

Salma Hayek has married her husband for a second time in Venice, Italy. The actress and French billionaire François-Henri Pinault tied the knot in a star-studded ceremony, People have confirmed. Hayek, 42, wore for a Balenciaga wedding gown by Nicholas Ghesquire as she exchanged vows with Pinault, 46 at La Fenice, Venice's opera house.

The couple's daughter, Valentina, 19 months was the flower girl for the special day, along with François-Henri's son and daughter from a previous marriage, François, 10 and Mathilde, 8.

Around 150 friends and family attended the ceremony, including Penélope Cruz, Edward Norton, Woody Harrelson, Olivier Martinez, Luis Miguel, Ashley Judd, Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, Bono, Gael García Bernal, Enrique Murciano, David Blaine, Ziyi Zhang, Anna Wintour and former French President Jacques Chirac.
They all joined in a group sing along to Over the Rainbow during the black-tie affair, which guests wore black and gold masks as they arrived for the nuptials. Hayek and Pinault, the CEO of luxury-goods company PPR, met in spring 2006 at a gala party at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, a white marble palace built in 1748-1772 and owned by the Pinault family.

Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen married National Football League star Tom Brady in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica on Thursday, Us Weekly reported.

The celebrity magazine said the ceremony took place at St. Monica Catholic Church in the oceanfront community, and the guests were mostly immediate family members. The bride wore Dolce & Gabbana as did her three dogs.

Bundchen, 28, has been dating the 31-year-old New England Patriots quarterback since 2006. She was previously linked with actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

Forbes.com reported last May that she was the world's highest-paid supermodel, with estimated annual earnings of $35 million. Brady has an 18-month-old son with actress Bridget Moynahan, with whom he broke up about the time she got pregnant.