Anyone who knows me knows that I love love LOVE Gone With the Wind. The book, the movie, the Classic Hollywood glamour, and yes, Scarlett O’Hara herself, one of the great film characters of all time, a woman you both love and love to hate. I recently got to see the restored film on a …
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I know plenty of people that consider Gone with the Wind a snooze-fest (for its almost four-hour running length), or find it unwatchable because Vivien Leigh’s Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara is such a despicable heroine. Sure, Scarlett is a bitch, but she is also one of the greatest movie heroines ever to grace the screen. …
I’m the first to admit that Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood is not for everybody. Heck, it may not even be for folks that are huge fans of the movie. This is a book about a book. It is a book about a writer releasing her years-in-the-making …
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I’m one of the few people (of my generation at least) that I know that still gets all swoony over Gone With the Wind, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary (!) with the 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition DVD and Blu-Ray release today from Warner Home Video. If there is anyone out there who is …
Gone With the Wind’s 70th anniversary? Oh, yes, I give a damn! Read More »