From: Huffpost

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/23/salman-rushdie-slumdog-fu_n_169068.html

An interesting perspective on the movies 

“ATLANTA — Famed novelist Salman Rushdie apparently wasn’t too impressed with the Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire,” telling an Atlanta audience it “piles impossibility on impossibility.”

Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for the author’s death in 1989, made the remarks Sunday during a speech to more than 1,000 people at Atlanta’s Emory University. The author criticized other Oscar winners adapted from books, including “The Reader” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the 61-year-old author of “The Satanic Verses” complained about several scenes, including one in which characters wind up at the Taj Mahal _ 1,000 miles from the previous scene.

“Slumdog Millionaire” won eight Oscars on Sunday, including best picture.”

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http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/02/23/rushdie0223.html?cxntlid=inform_sr