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In Corriere della Sera , a front-page comment by Tullio Kezich, headlined "Shame on you, Hollywood," complained that "this undisputed giant of the Seventh Art" won only one Oscar, and that only for the special effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey . In La Repubblica , in which his death was the main front-page lead Monday, Michele Serra compared him to Salman Rushdie, but as a fugitive from "another kind of fatwa, a typically Western one: condemnation to fame, photographs and interviews, television and awards ceremonies, juries and society; because he was, after all, the most famous and celebrated living author of the most important language of the century, the cinema."
On its editorial page, Le Monde published an analysis of the situation in Iran, holding out little hope of a real rapprochement between the West and Iran following its reaffirmation of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the death sentence passed recently on a German for having sexual relations with a Muslim woman.
Among the 16 men and three women profiled in this issue: Adolf Hitler (by Elie Wiesel), Gandhi (by Salman Rushdie), Margaret Sanger (by Gloria Steinem), and Margaret Thatcher (by Paul Johnson).
The other big story in Italy was the visit of President Mohammed Khatami of Iran, the first by an Iranian leader to the West since 1979, which was soured by the coincidental, simultaneous presence in the country of Salman Rushdie, the British writer condemned to death 10 years ago by Ayatollah Khomeini for allegedly blaspheming against the Muslim religion in his book The Satanic Verses . While Khatami was in Rome, Rushdie was in Turin receiving an honorary degree from the university there, to the embarrassment and anger of the Italian government, which had not been informed.
Eastern antipathy toward Salman Rushdie; Western antipathy toward Gwyneth Paltrow.
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