Ramona and Beezus, based on Beverly Cleary's book series, opens July 23. Joey King and Selena Gomez play the two misadventurous grade school sisters. A movie tie-in edition is available (Harper, $5.99, 9780061914614/0061914614). On Saturday, the two stars of the movie appeared at a Borders store in Miami, where they met fans and signed copies of the book and memorabilia, according to the Examiner.
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Aaron Sorkin (West Wing) will make his debut as a feature film director after optioning The Politician by Andrew Young, former aide to John Edwards, whose "2008 run to be the Democratic presidential candidate... ended shockingly when a tabloid newspaper revealed that the married senator had fathered an illegitimate child with Rielle Hunter," Deadline.com reported. Sorkin will also write the script and produce.
"This is a first hand account of an extraordinary story filled with motivations, decisions and consequences that would have lit Shakespeare up," Sorkin observed. "There is much more to Andrew's book than what has been reported and I am grateful that he's trusting me with it."