Holmes on Cruise control

New York – The future Mrs. Tom Cruise has already tried on at least one wedding gown.

Katie Holmes appears in the August issue of W magazine posing in a Commes des Garcons wedding dress and continuing to gush about her fiance. The couple, who went public with their relationship in April, haven’t announced a date for their marriage.

“Tom and I will always be in our honeymoon phase,” Holmes says in W, on newsstands July 22. In the interview, a theme emerges with many similar comments, including “Tom is the most incredible man in the world.”

Cruise, 42, and Holmes, 26, became engaged last month after the “War of the Worlds” star proposed at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Holmes, who co-stars in “Batman Begins,” has said she’s taking lessons in Cruise’s faith of Scientology.

“I’m learning to celebrate my own spirit, my own being,” she says.

During the W interview, the actress wouldn’t part from Jessica Rodriguez, who is described as her “Scientologist chaperone.” Rodriguez’s role in Holmes’ life remains vague, though Rodriguez says they’re “just best friends” since meeting around the time Holmes met Cruise.

“You adore him,” Rodriguez told Holmes when the actress was at a loss for words to describe her love.

Not to forget their day jobs, Holmes says she wants to make a movie with Cruise.

“That would be such an honor,” she says. “Such an honor.”

Harry Potter author tops Amazon.com list

New York – J.K. Rowling tops the list. Dan Brown is ranked very high. William Shakespeare just missed out.

It’s Amazon.com’s top 25 best-selling authors.

The online retailer, celebrating its 10th anniversary, announced its biggest sellers Thursday, with Rowling no surprise at No. 1. The “Harry Potter” author was followed by Spencer Johnson of “Who Moved My Cheese?” fame, romance novelist Nora Roberts and “The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown.

Rounding out the top 10 were Dr. Seuss, John Grisham, Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien, “Left Behind” novelists Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins and business writer Jim Collins.

Shakespeare was No. 26, one notch below Tom Clancy.

Live 8 organizer may be nominated for Nobel Prize

Oslo, Norway – Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof may get a shot at the Nobel Peace Prize.

Jan Simonsen, a Norwegian lawmaker who has nominating rights for the coveted award, says Geldof should be honored for his efforts to bring attention to world poverty through rock music.

“I have for many years thought that a representative person from the rock environment should get the prize to show rock’s border-breaking character,” Simonsen said Wednesday. “For example, rock is listened to by both Palestinian and Israeli youth. That in itself can create peace.”

Geldof, the former leader of Irish punk group the Boomtown Rats, organized last weekend’s Live 8 concerts to draw attention to poverty in Africa. He also organized the 1985 Live Aid concerts for famine relief.

The award, including $1.5 million, is always presented on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of its founder, Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel.

Birthdays

Actor Richard Roundtree is 63. Author Dean Koontz is 60. Football Hall-of-Famer O.J. Simpson is 58. Actor Tom Hanks is 49. Actress-rock singer Courtney Love is 41. Actor Fred Savage is 29.