Everyone’s still reeling from the news of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ death from his battle with pancreatic cancer. Due to his recent passing, Bluewater Productions, along with Paperless Publishing, have published a special edition biography comic book, “Steve Jobs: Founder of Apple,” as an e-book, available Friday for the NOOK and Kindle. The standard print issue was announced last June and will still be released on its original scheduled release in three weeks–October 27. Aside from the special edition e-book version of the biography, Bluewater has decided to further honor Jobs’ memory by pledging to donate a portion of the issue’s proceeds to the American Cancer Society. “Job’s vision and…

E! reality star Alexis Neiers, who also rose to fame earlier this year for spending 30 days of a 180-day jail sentence for burglarizing Orlando Bloom, is trying to get a book loosely based on her life published, TMZ reported on September 28. The ‘Pretty Wild’ star’s book is described by TMZ as a combination of ‘Gossip Girl’ and the Hollywood lifestyle. The book is also described as “a cautionary tale as well as a guilty pleasure; the reader is plunged into the crazy, out-of-control world of one of Hollywood’s most infamous party girls.” Ghostwriter Sheryl Berk, who helped Britney Spears and Jamie-Lynn Sigler write their books, is reportedly on…

Summit Entertainment who brought us the hit film “Twilight” has acquired the rights to the 2006 Harry Houdini biography “The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero,” written by William Kalush and Larry Sloman about the famous magician and escape artist. The controversial book insinuates that Harry Houdini acted as a spy for Britain and was asked to be an adviser to Czar Nicholas II’s court in pre-revolution Russia. The book also implies that Houdini’s death is connected to payback from the then-popular spiritualist movement, as Houdini was also known as a debunker of con artists who pretended to be spiritualists and mediums. Summit is not looking…

Focus Features recently released another brand new movie trailer from the drama “Milk” by director Gus Van Sant (Paranoid Park, Finding Forrester, Psycho) and starring Sean Penn (21 Grams), Josh Brolin (American Gangster, Grindhouse), Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer) and James Franco (Spider-Man 3). Synopsis: Academy Award winner Sean Penn takes the title role in Gus Van Sant’s biopic tracing the last eight years in the life of Harvey Milk, the ill-fated politician and gay activist whose life changed history, and whose courage still inspires people. When Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, he made history for being the first openly gay man in American…

Focus Features recently released the latest movie trailer from their upcoming drama “Milk” by director Gus Van Sant (Paranoid Park, Finding Forrester, Psycho) and starring Sean Penn (21 Grams), Josh Brolin (American Gangster, Grindhouse), Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer) and James Franco (Spider-Man 3). Synopsis: The story of California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White. Stay tuned to Toxic Shock TV for the latest “Milk” movie trailers and posters.