Rubina Ali, the adorable little girl from Slumdog Millionaire, is writing a book! About her life! Um, she is nine years old! From the AP:
Transworld Publishers said Rubina Ali's book will tell the story of her life in the shantytown where she grew up.
They added: "It will be written in crayon, and it will be four pages long, because she is nine. Just kidding no one in Mumbai can afford crayons."
Look, I want nothing but the best for the Slumdog Millionaire children, instead of nothing but the worst, which is what they are constantly getting, but perhaps the endemic problems of abject poverty that "inspired" the terrible movie, and from which the child stars continue to suffer, will not be solved by a 9-year-old's ghostwritten rags-to-riches-to-rags memoir about how she went from a lifetime of suffering to SPOILER ALERT the Academy Awards and then SPOILER ALERT back to suffering. Just like how they weren't solved by the brightly colored fairy tale music video about how magical poverty can be that was Slumdog Millionaire, winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Achievement in Sound. Clearly exploiting this child for publicity has not been working out so great so far.
