Commentary A puff piece on Sinead O’Connor scheduled to appear in The New York Times on Sunday and timed to coincide with the publication of her memoir, with the Borat-like title of “Rememberings,” includes this little jog to the reader’s own rememberings. “If you remember two things about her,” writes Amanda Hess for the Times about Ms. O’Connor, “it’s that she vaulted to fame with that enduring close-up in the video for her version of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’—and then, that she stared down a ‘Saturday Night Live’ camera, tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II and killed her career.” But wait! What we all thought we knew about Sinead O’Connor turns out not to be true—at least not according to Shuhada Sadaqat, as Ms. O’Connor has taken to calling herself, off and on, since her conversion to Islam. “O’Connor doesn’t see it that way,” writes Ms. Hess, …
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