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...becomes "Other," Rhett Butler "R," Ashley Wilkes "Dreamy Gentleman"--but these draw whatever substance they have in this version from the people fleshed out in Mitchell's novel. Randall's invention is the character Cinnamon/Cynara, the slave Mammy's mulatto daughter and the half sister of Scarlett, er, Other. Cynara's diary forms the basis of The Wind Done Gone. She writes of her childhood at Cotton Farm and Tata (Tara) and then of events after the period covered in GWTW: her freedom and her life in Atlanta as R's mistress and eventual wife. Along the way, she reports...
...Cynara's voice and character are, in fits and starts, inspired and inspiring. Newly emancipated and literate, she acquires, by virtue of what she calls her "crazy quilt" education, an arresting fictional presence. She can be blunt, circa the 1870s--"There is a lot of Indian in her nigger"--and sometimes poetic: "Mothers grow flaccid, rich in babylove, each baby taking some of the mother's beauty as if the baby knows it needs to protect its babyself by making Mama less kiss-daddy pretty." Why shouldn't the loyal slaves enshrined in the magnolia myth of GWTW, novel...
According to a survey by Cynara Stites, a clinical social worker at the University of Connecticut, professors themselves admit the potential for exploitation in such romances: 9 out of 10 agreed that a student who breaks up with a professor risks "unfair reprisals." More than half the male faculty members agreed that a professor who sleeps with a student he supervises is taking advantage of her. "There's a real risk of her losing her entire academic career," explains Stites. "It undermines her self-confidence. She doesn't know whether [her success is] based on her lover or based...
Simone: Monogamous! Get him. Marriage is a bourgeois institution, a way of fixing woman as man's property. Sartre and I have worked out one possible alternative: contingent loves with a certain fidelity. "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion...
...husband. Claire Bloom, a nymphoholic divorcee, goes for delivery boys and straight gin. Only Glynis Johns and John Dehner, as a sort of artsy-daftsy fun couple, manage to bring a whiff of fresh air to the otherwise musky proceedings. While declaiming "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion" into a tape recorder one afternoon on the beach, Glynis gets trampled by a strapping pro football player, decides that a romp with this animated side of beef would give her a new outlook on life. The romp turns into a beery rout, and she wriggles home...