Chekhov's Mistress
Nothing Beats Free Publicity
Dibs! reports that the real Brick Lane residents are protesting the film adaptation of Monica Ali’s novel:
“all right-thinking people to join … in preventing this attack on good social, ethical standard and idea.” Heading the protest “from his sweetshop armed with three mobile phones and an address book, the chair of the Brick Lane Traders’ Association, Abdus Salique, warned of the damage film could do to community relations. ‘Nobody can come with a camera, make a film about that book here. She [Ali] has imagined ideas about us in her head. She is not one of us, she has not lived with us, she knows nothing about us, but she has insulted us…. I’ve seen her, I’ve talked with her…. She never told us she’d write a book. Now she can’t even come to Brick Lane.’”
This of course is the very sort of thing that gets people interested in seeing a film.
(via Michael Allen)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: July 26, 2006
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