Gone With the Wind

Are Harry And Sally Still Married?

Jane L. Rosen | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Shrek, Meet Cute Story, Divorce, Gone With the Wind, Romantic Comedies, When Harry Met Sally, Dirty Dancing, While You Were Sleeping, Classic Love Stories, How We Met, Reasons for Divorce, Grease, Pretty Woman, Meg Ryan, Boy Meets Girl, Sleepless in Seattle, Divorce News

Perhaps that pair that we yearn to emulate are not even together by the time their movie is available on Netflix.

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'Antiques Roadshow': Amazing Signed 'Gone With The Wind'

Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Pbs, Clark Gable, Reality TV, Victor Fleming, Antiques Roadshow, Video, Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, TV Canada, Tv Replay, Signed Book, Hattie McDaniel, Vivien Leigh, TV News

Are you a Windie? Do you know what a Windie is? On "Antiques Roadshow" (Mon., 8 p.m. ET on PBS), a woman brought in an item that she was told would ma...

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Our Favorite Bookish Love Scenes From Films

Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: You've Got Mail, Movie Love Scenes, Beauty and the Beast, Book Love Scenes, Gone With the Wind, Book Adaptations, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Love Scenes, Funny Face, Audrey Hepburn, Books News

In an essay about the idiosyncrasies of new relationships, humor writer Sloane Crosley reflects on her past lovers' too-avid desire to create intimate...

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Valuable 'Gone With The Wind' Memorabilia May Be Destroyed

AP | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Atlanta Fire, Gone With the Wind, Gone With the Wind Fire, Atlanta, Gone With the Wind Memorabilia, Jonesboro Museum, Culture News

STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. — Museum officials are waiting to see whether memorabilia from the classic film "Gone with the Wind" was ruined when a fire hea...

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Clark Gable: King of Hollywood

John Farr | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Wallace Beery, Carole Lombard, The Academy Awards, Don Rickles, Charles Laughton, Joan Crawford, Robert Wise, Louis B. Mayer, Burt Lancaster, Frank Capra, Claudette Colbert, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Mgm, Best Movies on DVD, Walter Pidgeon, Olivia De Havilland, Gone With the Wind, Spencer Tracy, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Rosalind Russell, John Ford, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Lewis, Leslie Howard, David O. Selznick, Vivien Leigh, Loretta Young, Old Hollywood, Hollywood, Entertainment News

As we kick off Oscar month tomorrow, we also honor the birthday of Clark Gable, who picked up a statuette at the seventh Academy Awards ceremony in 1935.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Twilight, and the Return of Women's Blockbuster Films

Govindini Murty | Posted 02.19.2012

Hollywood is finally making an effort to give women and their stories the blockbuster treatment. In doing so, the film industry is hearkening back to what was once a strength of classic Hollywood: the blockbuster women's film.

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One-Hit Wonders Revisited: Happy Anniversary to The Last Picture Show

David Galenson | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Catch-22, Joseph Heller, J.D. Salinger, Peter Bogdanovich, One Hit Wonders, Gone With the Wind, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Last Picture Show, Arts News

All the artists mentioned here appear to have been conceptual innovators, and that their puzzling declines may be a result of the fact that age is not the friend of the conceptual imagination.

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Q&A With Jessica Sherr, Star of
Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies

Joshua Kors | Posted 11.08.2011

Jessica Sherr has been playing the raven-haired 1940s cinema icon Bette Davis for two years. Sherr sat down with me to discuss how an off-hand comment about her bright green eyes sparked a burgeoning career.

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One Southerner's Take on The Help

Cathy Whitlock | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Sixties South, The Help, Kathryn Stockett the Help, Mark Ricker, Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind, Sharen Davis, Entertainment News

The Help paints a powerful, all too painful and more importantly, accurate picture of a snapshot in time. It's all there -- the racism and mean-spiritedness and compassion and love. No matter what region you are from, it is a story that transcends.

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'Gone With The Wind' Curtain Dress: Scarlett Wouldn't Be Caught In It Now

AP | By JIM VERTUNO | Posted 09.19.2011

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AUSTIN, Texas -- Efforts to preserve and restore several iconic dresses from the Oscar-winning Civil War movie "Gone With the Wind" have uncovered wha...

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Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With The Wind' Turns 75

npr.org | Maureen Corrigan | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind Movie, Literary Prizes, Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind, Book Adaptations, Film Adaptations, Pulitzer Prize, Books News

In June 1936, a blockbuster of a book was published; it gave the world a sense of the Old South, an unforgettable heroine and (in the movie version) t...

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Which Sexy Book Character Do You Want To Sleep With?

Zoe Triska | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Franny and Zooey, Jane Austen, Lord of the Rings, Literary Characters to Sleep With, Gone With the Wind, Pride and Prejudice, True Blood, Sexy Literary Characters, J.D. Salinger, James Joyce, Sexy Book Characters, Video, Sleep With Book Characters, Love & Sex, Charlaine Harris, Ulysses, Slidepollajax, Books News

It's a very personal question to ask but we didn't let that stop us, and readers really seemed to want to let us know which book characters they'd mo...

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Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Confederacy, Germany, Victoria Cross, Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind, William Faulkner, Confederate Flag, American Civil War, US History, German History, Atlantic Monthly, Yankees, National Socialism, Books News

Civil War re-enactors take heed. I have perfected the Rebel yell: Oweeeeeeyaaahhooooo!!! That's me after reading Yoni Applebaum's piece, "Confedera...

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Tonally Inappropriate Book Covers

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: William Golding, J.D. Salinger, Book Covers, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Lord of the Flies, David Foster Wallace, Gone With the Wind, David Copperfield, All Quiet on the Western Front, Infinite Jest, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Books News

Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but um, we kind of do it all the time. In fact, half the fun of that anachroni...

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HuffPost Readers' Picks: Best First Sentences In Books

Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson, First Sentences, Samuel Beckett, Ray Bradbury, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gone With the Wind, Leo Tolstoy, A Tale of Two Cities, Pride and Prejudice, Books News

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortun...

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A Literary Sin: On Giving Away Books

Maegan Carberry | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Right of Passage, Book Drives, James Joyce, Dr. Phil, Second-Hand Book Shop, Charity, Blackwater, Donating to Charity, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Second Hand Books, Reading List, Gone With the Wind, Jay Z, Imagination, Classic Books, Books News

I am having a hard time coming to grips with whether I will ever read The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In some respects, I believe a good book finds you at the exact moment in your life when you need to read it.

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The 2011 Academy Awards: It Gets a C-Plus at Best

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Billy Crystal, Kirk Douglas, Academy Awards, Mo'Nique, Hugh Jackman, The Oscars, Helen Mirren, Marilyn Monroe, Alfred Hitchcock, Halle Berry, Mary Martin, Christian Bale, The Fighter, Eli Wallach, Tony Curtis, David Seidler, The Social Network, Bob Hope, Billy Wilder, Gone With the Wind, Lena Horne, Anne Hathaway, John Hughes, Russell Brand, Tom Hanks, Francis Ford Coppola, The King's Speech, Ethel Merman, Michael Russnow, Reese Witherspoon, Aaron Sorkin, Kenneth Brownlow, Fred Zinnemann, Melissa Leo, Lauren Bacall, Colin Firth, James Franco, Christoph Waltz, Abc, Film, Oscars 2011, Celebrities, Natalie Portman, Award Season, Movies, Entertainment News

You know the writers are in trouble when they have to rely upon Hathaway's mother and Franco's grandmother to help out in the audience. All in all the show was mediocre, but not a disaster.

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Favorite Rereads: What Do You Come Back To Time And Time Again? (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, 1984, Ernest Hemingway, Books We Love, George Orwell, Homer, Ray Bradbury, Gone With the Wind, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Middlesex, Harry Potter, Slidepollajax, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rereads, Jeffrey Eugenides, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

Author François Mauriac once said, "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what ...

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The Real News? Women Supporting Women

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Mentors, Business, Mentoring, Networks, Wpo, Pwn, Gone With the Wind, Professional-Woman, Jane Austen, 85 Broads, Businesswoman, Atonementm New, Business News

Everywhere I go, I see women's networks. Everywhere I speak, it's in support of female mentoring schemes. Women have quickly figured out the strength and power they have together.

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Pat Conroy's Memoir

AP | KIM CURTIS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Stephen King, Gone With the Wind, My Reading Life Conroy, My Reading Life, Pat Conroy, War and Peace, Reading, Books News

"My Reading Life" (Doubleday, $25), by Pat Conroy: Best-selling novelist Pat Conroy doesn't just love books, he devours them. He doesn't just visit li...

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University Of Texas Hits 'Gone With The Wind' Dress Donation Target

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harry Ransom Center, Gone With the Wind Dresses, Ut Ransom Center, University of Texas, Gone With the Wind, The South, Ransom Center, College News

AUSTIN, Texas — Legions of "Gone With the Wind" fans have together donated tens of thousands of dollars to prove they, frankly, do give a you-kn...

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Rubbernecking: Project Runway, Episode 9 "Race to the Finish"

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Vampire Diaries, April Johnston, Project Runway, My Fair Lady, Nina Garcia, Rubbernecking, Adam Ant, The Little Mermaid, Rainbow Brite, Ivy Higa, Andy South, January Jones, Michael Kors, Michael Drummond, Breakfast at Tiffany?S, Gretchen Jones, Tim Gunn, Fashion, Michael Costello, Christopher Collins, Naeem Khan, Michelle Obama, Peach Carr, Santino Rice, Jackie O, Valerie Mayen, Heidi Klum, Collier Strong, Style News, Fashion Week, Marie Claire Magazine, Gone With the Wind, Audrey Hepburn, Reality TV, Competition, Mad Men, Lifetime TV, Scarlett O?Hara, L?Oreal Paris, Joni Mitchell, Lady GaGa, Mondo Guerra, Sewing, Merchant Ivory, Entertainment News

As we rejoin the remaining eight, Gretchen shares that not having Michael D there makes it feel more like a competition, as he was well-liked.

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I Saw Elvis in His Coffin

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Graceland, Anita Bryant, Gone With the Wind, New South, Bob Greene, Sex Pistols, Elvis Presley?S Death, Marshall Fine Blog, Born to Run, Elvis Presley, Memphis, Esquire, Jimmy Carter, Chicago Tribune, Mississippi State Fair, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Miss, Entertainment News

When Elvis fell off a toilet and straight into rock'n'roll heaven, I was the reporter the paper called to drive up to Memphis to cover it. But I didn't want to go.

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A Tale of Two Sisters: Hollywood's Longest Running Feud

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

It is exceedingly strange and more than a little sad that actresses Olivia de Havilland, 94, and her sister Joan Fontaine, 93, have been estranged for many years, the result of an intense sibling rivalry which has never dissipated.

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Love Stories: Esther Freud, Author Of 'Hideous Kinky' Picks 10 Favorite

The Guardian | Esther Freud | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History of Love, Bestsellers, Dr. Zhivago, Gone With the Wind, Jane Eyre, Novels, Love Stories, Tolstoy, Chickflicks, Books News

"The love stories that have stayed with me are the ones that broke my heart. Novels that managed to create the unbearable longing of two people to be ...

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