![]() Like the lives of many celebrities, like any life heightened by the attention of strangers, his story has prompted a mix of pity and envy. Salman Rushdie was a private person who became a public problem, and somewhere along the way he got famous. ![]() Rushdie writes in his new memoir, Joseph Anton (Random House, 656 pp., $30), “It was harder than he expected to play a character called Salman Rushdie.” Of his cameo in that movie-he surfaces at a book party to point Renée Zellweger to the toilet-Mr. Rushdie’s girlfriend while the author watched from the other end of the table, and during the filming of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Hugh Grant kissed him on the mouth. Bono based a “haunting ballad” on one of his books, then pursued him into a parked car to make Mr. Rushdie’s life in hiding is the subject of a joke, and in a less well-known movie, International Gorillay, three flying Korans burn the villain, “Salman Rushdie,” with lightning bolts. ![]() Rushdie’s tribulations in the entertainment business. Last June, officials at a software expo in Tehran announced that production had begun on a new computer game-“The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and the Implementation of his Verdict.” “We felt we should find a way,” said a spokesperson, Mohammad-Taqi Fakhrian, “to introduce our third and fourth generation to the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and its importance.” Being cast as the bad guy in an educational first-person-shooter wasn’t the first of Mr. ![]()
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