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Fatwa'd author Salman Rushdie, whose new novel The Enchantress of Florence came out this week, is eager to let everyone know that contrary to media gossip, he hasn't been playing the field since his divorce from Padma Lakshmi. He tells Patricia Cohen in the New York Times: "All the people I've been associated with" in such reports "are not true...I'm totally eligible, single and available." Perhaps this explains his recent penchant for turning up on celluloid where you'd least expect him, like as Helen Hunt's ob-gyn in her new movie There She Found Me, and—even ickier—a neck-nuzzler in Scarlett Johansson's pop video.