"Impossibility on impossibility.”
Ya know, like somebody that looks like this .....
.... being married for a while to somebody that looks like this:
Posted on 02/23/2009 5:50:15 PM PST by slomark
One would think a novelist would understand the concept of “creative license.” But not Salman Rushdie. He’s offended that Slumdog Millionaire contains scenes that (gasp) aren’t realistic.
The Indian-born author recently told an audience at Atlanta’s Emory University that the Academy Award-winning film “piles impossibility on impossibility.”
Rushdie, who gained more fame for hiding than he ever did for writing, spent years cowering in a closet after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwah against him in 1989.
The author of “The Satanic Verses” was in a tizzy that the...
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I admit that I didn’t stay awake through the whole film. but before I dozed off I thought how ironic, watching not long after the terror attcks, that this film about Bombay, made its heroic victims Muslim.
"Impossibility on impossibility.”
Ya know, like somebody that looks like this .....
.... being married for a while to somebody that looks like this:
Rushdie hit that. Lucky bastard.
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