Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail. Both the young stars of Slumdog Millionaire became homeless in May after each of their homes outside Mumbai were bulldozed. For, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, who played Salim in the film, this was the second time his home was bulldozed, the first occurring while the film was in production and film crews found him sleeping on top of a car. Ismail said all his belongings were damaged or had to be thrown out after police forced his family to abandon their things. The young actors’ homes were in unregistered, and therefore illegal, slums and were demolished along with dozens of others. The film director, Danny Boyle, has since found permanent housing for Ismail’s family and hopes to do so for Rubina Ali, 9, as well. Ali is reportedly staying with relatives.
Harland Sanders, a.k.a Colonel Sanders Harland Sanders, original spokesman and founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, was homeless twice in his life. At the age of 10, in 1900, Sanders was briefly homeless while holding several jobs to support himself and later his family. Sanders was then in the U.S. Army and earned a law degree. After practicing law for five years, Sanders opened a service station and began selling fried chicken to customers. By 1952, the state of Kentucky built a highway that bypassed Sanders’s store and sales plummeted. Forced to live off of social security, Sanders slept in his car and traveled around the country to sell his chicken recipe to restaurants in exchange for a small fee for every chicken sold. After being rejected by over 1,000 restaurants, Sanders sold his company in 1964 for $2 million.
