{"id":433,"date":"2004-09-26T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T04:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=433"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:20","slug":"turban_slur_opt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/26\/turban_slur_opt\/","title":{"rendered":"Turban slur optioned for film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian-American novelist has sold film rights to her Lolita story, <i>Towelhead,<\/i> to the writer of <i>American Beauty<\/i> and HBO&#8217;s <i>Six Feet Under<\/i> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moorishgirl.com\/archives\/2004_09.html#001701\">Moorish Girl<\/a>). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.killermovies.com\/t\/towelhead\/articles\/4449.html\">celebratory article<\/a> doesn&#8217;t even <i>mention<\/i> the fact that &#8216;towelhead,&#8217; like the term <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_404894.html\">made famous<\/a> by Louisiana Congressman John Cooksey, is an ethnic slur. I&#8217;m looking forward to the sequel, <i>Sand N&#8211;.<\/i><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Set during the Gulf War, the book is a coming-of-age story of a 13-year-old Arab-American girl who must navigate a sexual obsession with a bigoted Army reservist under the oppressive eye of her Lebanese father.<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian-American novelist has sold film rights to her Lolita story, Towelhead, to the writer of American Beauty and HBO&#8217;s Six Feet Under (via Moorish Girl). The celebratory article doesn&#8217;t even mention the fact that &#8216;towelhead,&#8217; like the term made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/26\/turban_slur_opt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}