Word: gwtw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight episodes ranked among the Top Ten in all-time TV ratings (the other three: this year's Super Bowl, Parts 1 and 2 of Gone With the Wind). The last episode drew an audience of 80 million, smashing the record set last November by the first half of GWTW, which told much the same story but from the other side and smothered in magnolia blossoms...
...sequel, which the producers plan to call The Continuation of Gone With the Wind, was an idea whose time had come almost as soon as the original novel was published. GWTW devotees felt that Scarlett and Rhett were destined to be reunited, and scores of writers and producers were eager to oblige; they wanted to cash in on the sequel to a story that has since gone through 85 hard-cover editions and has almost certainly been seen as a movie by more people than any other film in history. Since Margaret Mitchell's death in 1949, however...
...Atlanta, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans and Jonesboro, she studies the big stories of the day, the proceedings of the state senate in Atlanta, and even advertisements for patent medicines hawked during the yellow fever epidemic of the period-a plague that will undoubtedly provide some of the melodrama for GWTW II. Plotting possible ways for Scarlett and Rhett "to get richer and richer," she leafs through the financial pages to see what was happening on the cotton and sugar exchanges...
Gone With The Wind. GWTW is so deeply and insidiously racist that it would make Birth of a Nation look like "An Interview with Bobby Seale." At the Pi Alley in Boston for $3.50. Get there early. No political discussion...
...than 30 years Gone With the Wind has been Hollywood's ultimate picture-ultimate in the Hollywood sense of being the industry's alltime biggest moneymaker. Until last year, the only challenger had been The Sound of Music (1965), which leveled off a few million dollars below GWTW. But now Variety reports that in only nine months of 1972, The Godfather grossed a spectacular $81,500,000, surpassing not only Music ($72 million) but also GWTW ($77,030,000). The other leaders in Variety's compilation...