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Salman Rushdie Is Practically a Mentor to Olivia Wilde

One of the many perks of authoring The Satanic Verses and The Moor’s Last Sigh is the requisite personal friendship with Olivia Wilde, best known for her work in Tron: Legacy 3D and The O.C., on which she played a lesbian during a brief but memorable story arc in late 2005. The author and the actress discussed foreign policy at Da Silvano last week, because “he’s one of her parents’ best friends,” a rep said. [Page Six/NYP]

Salman Rushdie Is Practically a Mentor to Olivia Wilde