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...amount of regional and national press over what insiders are calling “Opalgate” is bordering on the absurd. Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, author of “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” borrowed liberally from another author’s work. So what? In the hip-hop world, this goes down all the time. The main question for all the chick-lit fans, and possibly the courts, is whether Viswanathan is a “biter,” or just standing on the shoulders...
...Times also found that three similar passages exist between “Opal Mehta” and Kinsella’s “Can You Keep a Secret...
...page 59 of Viswanathan’s novel reads: “Every inch of me had been cut, filed, steamed, exfoliated, polished, painted, or moisturized. I didn’t look a thing like Opal Mehta. Opal Mehta didn’t own five pairs of shoes so expensive they could have been traded in for a small sailboat. She didn’t wear makeup or Manolo Blahniks or Chanel sunglasses or Habitual jeans or Le Perla bras. She never owned enough cashmere to make her concerned for the future of the Kazakhstani mountain goat population...
...Crimson learned of the similarities between “Opal Mehta” and both “Haroun” and “The Princess Diaries” through e-mail tips. The “Princess Diaries” similarity was found on the online weblog DesiJournal. Viswanathan has defended her writing in the past by stating that she “internalized” McCafferty’s books, and that she has a photographic memory...
...Angeles Times reported on Friday that Dreamworks, which bought the movie rights to “Opal Mehta,” has halted production of the film. The article cited “a source close to Dreamworks...