In Brief: Miller book to be made into film

The debut novel by Rebecca Miller (pictured), daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and wife of actor Daniel Day Lewis, is to be made into a film; The Private Lives of Pippa Lee will star Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder... America Ferrera, the star of Ugly Betty, has signed up with the Hillary Clinton campaign in a bid to attract the key Hispanic vote... Jeremy Irons is to make his National Theatre debut in a new Howard Brenton play, Never So Good, about the late-1950s early-60s Tory PM Harold Macmillan... Sir Paul McCartney is organising the first UK exhibition of his late wife Linda McCartney's photographs to mark the 10th anniversary her death... Actress Leslie Ash has won more than £500,000 compensation from the NHS after a hospital 'super bug' ended her career... Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing has joined the arts funding row; she is objecting to the withdrawal of Arts Council funds from Arcadia Books, known for its publication of translated works...The Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano has condemned JK Rowling’s "truly diabolical" Harry Potter books for posing a danger to children by promoting witchcraft and the occult… Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is back home after she was taken to hospital in New York by husband Chris Martin... Britney Spears left a note in her bathroom reading "Perhaps it would be better if I was dead" when she was taken to hospital following a child custody dispute earlier this month...