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Salman Rushdie attacked on stage in New York

Maybe he was just frustrated and annoyed by Rushdie’s self-satisfied, tortuous and circumlocutory literary style
 
Incarcerated murder suspects give interviews to the New York post?

they'll print interviews with anyone


Heywood Jablome, 41, a Manhattan real estate agent, agreed.

“This is a nice-looking store, but I don’t see people coming in here to trade,” he said. “Not the ‘suits’ who work up here. No way!”
 
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while..The great Tony Harrison’s Blasphemers’ Banquet.



Powerful stuff, well worth watching to the end..I don’t think the BBC would dare broadcast this nowadays
 
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while..The great Tony Harrison’s Blasphemers’ Banquet.



Powerful stuff, well worth watching to the end..I don’t think the BBC would dare broadcast this nowadays

Fantastic film. I was at a screening in the 90s, post-fatwa, in a literary audience and there were a few people in the Q & A afterwards arguing that Rushdie had brought it all on himself by being so disrespectful. :eek:
 
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