Alert: The spat between a society chronicler and acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie has made the cover of the Post! Devorah Rose, a self-made wannabe celebrity (she's described as a "fameball" in this recent NY Tmes Styles piece), says of the former Mr. Padma Lakshmi, "Hanging out with him, you kind of feel like you’re with a 5-year-old genius... You’re at dinner, and he’s eating and basically hanging out with your boobs. His mind is smart, but his actions are infantile. His behavior is beastly."
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Devorah Rose Issues Social Fatwa On Salman Rushdie For Dining With Her Boobs
Salman Rushdie Uses Twitter To Fight Facebook, Wins
Against a man who lived through a fatwa and a marriage with Padma Lakshmi, how could Mark Zuckerberg stand a chance? Everybody rest easy; thanks to a Twitter storm, Salman Rushdie has stood his ground and defeated Facebook. The whole thing started when, two days ago, Facebook decided to cancel Rushdie's account because they didn't believe it was actually him. Then, after he sent them a copy of his passport (!), they reinstated the account, "but insisted I use the name Ahmed which appears before Salman on my passport and which I have never used." At which point Rushdie began tweeting.
See Salman, Say Something
A Gawker reader spotted novelist Salman Rushdie on the 6 train. One commenter asked, "Does an award-winning, socially critical novelist not deserve a seat? And you call this civilization..." Not to mention a novelist with a fatwa! Back in 2000, the Observer reported on Rushdie's man-about-town ways, and one book agent bitterly said, "I was so pissed to be in the restaurant with him. I'm going to be mad, and dead... We can't enjoy our meal. We don't want to die because of his fatwa. It's so passive-aggressive toward people in Manhattan. We have enough trouble here." Rushdie has always liked NYC—his first public appearance post-fatwa was at Columbia in 1991.
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