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Salman Rushdie Rides the 6 Train
Here's author and knight Salman Rushdie—or as our tipster put it, "Padma [Lakshmi's] ex"—on the uptown 6 train, clinging to the pole. What is he thinking about? No one knows. Click for the larger image of the distinguished Satanic Verses author. -
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Rushdie Bodyguard Acknowledges Lies in Tell-All
Does any fameball author tell the truth ever anymore? Nope. Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie's former driver/bodyguard wrote a tell-all memoir about his years doing special protection, On Her Majesty's Service. Already he's had to admit that some of the parts excerpted in the Daily Mail last Sunday were lies. "The authors have admitted that there were falsehoods in the original manuscript and have made amendments accordingly," Rushdie's lawyer told the Guardian. Whoops! So they're fixing the book and releasing it again. -
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Salman Rushdie Speaks Out on Random House's "Censorship by Fear"
Jewel of Medina, Sherry Jone's historical novel about Aisha, wife of Muhammad, was killed by its publisher because of a warning from a crackpot professor who though "widespread violence" could break out, Salman Rushdie-style. Satanic Verses author Rushdie told the AP yesterday that this was basically bullshit: "I am very disappointed to hear that my publishers, Random House, have canceled another author's novel, apparently because of their concerns about possible Islamic reprisals." Jones will probably find another publisher due to all this hype and Random House will be so sorry. [AP via Galleycat] -
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Salman Rushdie Will Sue Your Ass
Author Salman Rushdie is pissed at the former British cop who wrote a tell-all about his time guarding the ladies' man of letters when he was under the threat of a big ol' fatwa from the Ayatollah—haha, he outlived you, jerk!—in 1989. "Rushdie told The Guardian that the book portrayed him as 'mean, nasty, tight-fisted, arrogant and extremely unpleasant.'" Said Rushdie, "In my humble opinion, I am none of those things [...] I am not trying to prevent him from publishing this stupid book, but if they publish it there will be consequences and there will be a libel action." More » -
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Hiding Out with Salman 'Scruffy' Rushdie
According to one of the Special Branch officers assigned to protect author Salman Rushdie—whose protectors remember as "Scruffy"—when he went into hiding after the Ayatollah Khomeini slapped him with a death sentence and put a price on his head in 1989, Rushdie was an arrogant tight-wad with "a handshake like a wet fish." That officer, Ron Evans, is dishing on his former ward in today's Mail. "[Seargent] Bob said: 'Let's go in and see the great man.' 'What's he like?' I asked. 'Well, he doesn't like the police, hates Thatcher, he can be arrogant and he's a Socialist. Apart from that, he's all right.'" More » -
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Are There Two Salman Rushdies Running Around Sadly?
Back when Salman Rushdie had a Padma Lakshmi to go home to and a fatwa hanging over his smooshed-up genius head, he wasn't out very often. But now since Padma's fled and Islamic fundamentalism is on the wane, he is, as The Observer's Doree Shafrir notes, omnipresent. Since October he's attended, spoken at, or slept through no less than 11 events in wildly different locales. And at some of these, he's been accompanied by toothsome lasses, including one toothsome lass named Patrice Jorden who "resembles nothing less than a younger, African-American version of Ms. Lakshmi." Hey, we all have a 'type'! More » -
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Britney Spears Will End Up Poor And Alone
- Britney Spears needs a good smack with the Suze Orman stick. Carrying a $50,000-a-month mortgage when you're taking home $737,868 a month is sooooo stupid. Why will no one teach the young women of today anything about finance? If Britney lives past 50 she'll be eating cat food. Chances that she'll live that long are slim anyway. [Page Six]
- Bette Midler tried to get Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner to cough up money for charity through the shame technique, telling him: "Sell the plane! Sell your fucking plane!" That's crazy! Without it, how could he be a huge hypocrite about global warming? [Rush & Molloy]
- Salman Rushdie went as Darth Vader for Halloween. [Page Six]
- Britney Spears needs a good smack with the Suze Orman stick. Carrying a $50,000-a-month mortgage when you're taking home $737,868 a month is sooooo stupid. Why will no one teach the young women of today anything about finance? If Britney lives past 50 she'll be eating cat food. Chances that she'll live that long are slim anyway. [Page Six]
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Last night at Bungalow 8, at an afterparty for some do-goody thing involving Bono, Top Chef judge, model and sinewy forest nymph Padma Lakshmi ran into her soon-to-be ex and author Salman Rushdie: She "threw her arms around him as everyone watched. She held on as if for dear life. He held on too. Lakshmi walked away minutes later, sobbing, as a few friends consoled her. She then returned to Rushdie and they began kissing. They separated again. 'They are not back together,' said one person who knows both of them. 'But she misses him.'" Sad but also upsetting! Mostly sad though. [WWD]
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Fragments from 'Salman! The Musical'
From time to time the news cycle offers up an event of such import and complexity that it can only be comprehended through the medium of musical theater. This week resident composer Ben Greenman examines the tragic unraveling of a famous author's marriage.
[SALMAN RUSHDIE is at a table in an Atlanta chophouse. He is sitting alone and talking to himself.]
SALMAN
Perhaps I'll start off with a salad
Then maybe a bowl of soup
For dessert, a hot fudge sundae
Or pecan pie or melon coupeIn between those two endpoints
Comes the entrée or main dish
From the looks of this very large menu
I can have anything that I wish More » -
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Chelsea-Bound Padma Means Doom For All Fugly Writers
The full effect of the Padma-Salman split perhaps may not be felt for years. A few things thus far can be said with confidence. Salman Rushdie may be the greatest Indian writer since Rabindranath Tagore but Padma Lakshmi is perhaps the most beautiful woman ever. Sadly for him, his genius mind was obscured by his scrunchy face and pudgy Salman body. The situation left Padma full of desire; the desire to end their marriage. During the years of their togetherness, pudgy scrunchy-faced authors worldwide could look toward Rushdie and say, "Well, if HE can do it..." before approaching some gaspingly beautiful woman during BookExpo. Well turns out he couldn't—which is heartbreaking to the geeks and a relief for beautiful women tired of hearing the line, "Hey baby, wanna see my PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Fiction?" The more immediate and less depressing fallout is that Padma Lakshmi is moving out of the apartment the two shared. More »
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