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Asra Nomani is best-known today for
imploring the press to just forget about fucking
Britney Spears already. But Asra Nomani was best-known last
summer for being the
former best friend of Mariane Pearl who had basically been dropped by Mariane for
Angelina Jolie, who played Mariane in the movie
A Mighty Heart, and was, for that and various other reasons, declared by
Esquire to be the "best person in the world" (in a piece notably criticized as the
worst celebrity profile in the world.) I thought hard about ALL THESE THINGS when I read this week's
Rolling Stone cover story on Britney Spears, which is sort of the logical sequel to the Angelina Jolie profile; overwrought, over-intellectualized and really fucking good rumination on the transformation of a troubled young girl estranged from her father. Is any of it
true, though? Well, at the beginning, Britney gets approached by a nervous fan, who says she's "from the South too" and could she maybe get a picture for her little sister? Lips "almost vibrating with anger," she stares the girl "deep in the eyes" and says "I don't know who you think I am, bitch." (Um, Britney, bitch?) "But I'm
not that person." In a way, it's the same thing Nomani is trying to say!
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