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- <text id=90TT1405>
- <title>
- May 28, 1990: Coming Soon To A Theater Near You
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 28, 1990 Emergency!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 19
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- <body>
- <p>By Priscilla Painton/Reported by David Ellis
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- <p> COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU. Salman Rushdie: eyes
- bloody, enveloped in flames, struck dead by an angry god. The
- Ayatullah Khomeini tried to arrange this denouement but wasn't
- able to bring it off before his own death last year, so a
- Pakistani studio has produced a movie that features three
- mujahedin setting out on a Rambo-style trek to kill the
- offending author of The Satanic Verses. In his celluloid
- incarnation, Rushdie is depicted as a boozy member of a Jewish
- cabal who lives in a luxurious palace surrounded by plump
- Punjabi bimbos and who likes to torture Muslims. The film,
- International Guerrillas, is doing boffo business in Pakistan,
- and its producers are negotiating to show the movie in--of
- course--Iran. Meanwhile, the man who plays Rushdie is getting
- a lesson in method acting: his portrayal of the author is so
- convincing he's now dodging death threats.
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- </body>
- </article>
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