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<< Previous   of   Next >> Associated Press  (click to enlarge) Carly Simon in New York on April 24.   ADVERTISEMENT   CONTACT THE HERALD Melanie Munk, Features Editor munk@heraldnet.com   Published: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 New book stirs some unpleasant memories for Carly Simon Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us," the nonfiction best-seller which interweaves her life story with those of fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and Carole King. Simon, 62, was the only one of the three who agreed to speak to writer Sheila Weller, who relied heavily on interviews with friends and family to tell their life stories. "I think Sheila did a terrific job and the book is extremely interesting, but it brought back things that I didn't want to remember and from other people's voices," Simon said in a recent interview. The book offers a behind-the-scenes look at Simon's 1972-83 life-in-a-fishbowl marriage to James Taylor, when they were pop music's reigning royal couple, as she struggled to get him to break his drug habit while raising their two children, Sally and Ben. Taylor, 60, who kicked his drug habit shortly after their marriage ended, does not keep in contact with his former wife and made no mention of their years together in his autobiographical "One Man Band" show released as a CD-DVD last year. "I'm so erased, so erased," Simon said. "I don't think James has forgotten in any way. If he had forgotten, he wouldn't be behaving in the way he is." Judge grants divorce to Sir Paul and Heather Sometimes love isn't all you need. A judge in London granted a preliminary divorce to former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills on Monday. If no one objects, the divorce will be final in six weeks. Mills, 40, will emerge from the rancorous divorce with $47.5 million -- and a reputation as a vindictive hothead. At the end of a hearing in March, for instance, the volatile Mills emptied a pitcher of water on the head of McCartney's lawyer, Fiona Shackleton. "Mrs. Shackleton said something under her breath so I cleansed and baptized her," Mills said afterward. "I thought she looked fantastic." Mills will retain custody of the couple's 4-year-old daughter, Beatrice. McCartney will retain custody of the bulk of his fortune, estimated by the court at $880 million. From Herald news services

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