Heidi Fleiss and Shahrukh Khan – Spot the Difference!

What a waste?.... You need to interview some women before making solid assumptions...

Shah Rukh Khan is a true artist and a gem of a person – a rather rare combination now-a-days. He is a credit to the community, the society at large, and his country – and he makes our hearts swell with joy and pride – even from a distance. If he is successful commercially in the practice of his art – more power to him. But stay under no illusions – it is the practice of the art which truly makes him happy, not the commercial part of it or the adulating hordes – it is that blessed state of being!

Why is that so difficult to understand?

Heidi Fleiss is an opportunist who has little positive to contribute – she is strictly about making money – and purely driven by her own personal profit – and to her, the exploitation (whether it is of a woman, or a man, or all women, or all men, or the media at large) is just a means to that end. In case you don’t believe me – go watch the episode of “Blind Date” where she took part and candidly explained what she wanted in a man for HERSELF – she had a clear-cut rule of thumb - $100 million would be a good start, $1 billion would be about right! If she indeed goes about getting settled in this special variety of farming, she is unlikely to get farm-hands who are driven by anything other than similar “basic” considerations. Commercial transactions are not about considerations for others! For Ms. Fleiss, spoken words – especially those to promote her commercial interests – do not hold the same sanctity that others may hold to theirs – she will do and say pretty much anything which suits a particular purpose. It is a mistake to read too much in what she says at a given moment and extrapolate to worldviews on what women and men are about.

In fact, mentioning these two individuals in the same breath is (in my view) virtual blasphemy and also displays an absolute lack of understanding of what each individual is about!

Notes

[… a typical bania-type ….]
What is that creature, would you care to elaborate – and does he exist? Where do we find him? Is he a cousin of the typical “black-type” or the typical “Muslim-type” or the typical “woman-type” creature?

Farzana,
What a con job? Beautifully written and masterfully exploited, but still a bait `n switch trick that uses an insidious title to invite an unsuspecting audience. I mean ``Heidi Fleiss and Shahrukh Khan – Spot the Difference!`` is one inexpensive (I should say cheap :) ) way to get us to enter this brothel of social commentary. Here I was, all set to learn about how the aspiring King of Bollywood had made an entry in Heidi`s list. Was it possible that our own Zara sa ``Veer`` was going to be a spud farmer in Nevada? It`s right next door to Idaho and the thought is not that far-fetched. One could imagine carloads (rather vanloads) of desi babes - PAPs, IAPs, SLAPs, NAPs, and BAPs, armed with their daddies` Amex cards, speeding through the desert, creating dust storms, on their way to nail ``MeN hooN na`` at $250 a pop without any ``Dar.``

Alas, the hard reality of the cruel world manifested itself in your statement ``But many more women’s wet dream is to spend 250 dollars in a chocolate spa or on some impulsive shopping.`` That was a terrible letdown. Leave it to the female obsession with emulating males to desecrate every last bastion of male sanctity. Somehow, chocolates, candy, and self-induced orgasms involving images of George Clooney, will forever negate the pleasant memories of the Mustang Ranch and Bunny`s.

You could have started your piece with your quote from Betty Friedan and saved us all the trouble of reading an excellent and captivating essay on why men and women are so different. Please keep writing - whether we agree with your message or not, you have such a superior way of delivering it. By the way, I don`t care if she is dead - I still think that God was extremely unkind to Betty. Her face could be used as a traffic light on the Autobahn or I-80 right outside Reno in Sparks, Nevada. :)

what a waste of time! If this is standard of writing coming from editor-in-chief, than god save the chowk...

even the footnote makes sense only for US conditions, not when applied to the subcontinent.

you wasted your energy and time on heidi fleiss and a stupid indian movie where ghosts have sex?

the best part about the article was the footnote.