By Dope Peddler

What indie film star best-known for her leading role in an Oscar-nominated movie about the assumption of another’s identity is now so coked-out that producers won’t even look at her for off-Broadway parts?

Rushdie’s take on the cartoon controversy

In the midst of the controversy at this paper and others over whether or not to publish the Danish cartoons of Mohammed, we bumped into Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie at a fashion week party for Brit fashion house Temperley London. 

Speaking in a reflective, generous and considered tone, Rushdie told us that he thought it was quite understandable and reasonable for people not to print the cartoons out of fear. But the pandering to Islamic fundamentalism of Blair and Clinton, he said bluntly, was “completely chickenshit.”