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MARGARET MITCHELL Tara saved! Federal judge says novel retelling GWTW from slave's p.o.v. violates copyright...
...GWTW Author Margaret Mitchell, who died in 1949, always refused to extend her story. But Mitchell's heirs were concerned because the book's copyright was due to expire in 2011, leaving the story unprotected. Thus they reluctantly agreed to let Ripley, whose own "big, fat, serious historicals" (Charleston, New Orleans Legacy) have fared well on the moonlight-and- magnolia circuit, write a sequel. Last week, with two chapters of the new GWTW written, major publishers kicked off a brisk bidding war. The hardcover rights could fetch as much as $6 million...
...Wind. The U.S. Postal Service last week even issued a definitive memorial 1 cents U.S. postage stamp with Mitchell's likeness. As if to confirm the cult status of the Pulitzer- prize-winning novel (25 million copies sold in 27 languages) and the 1939 movie, serious philatelists and GWTW aficionados alike stormed a postal booth and bought 50,000 of the new stamps...
...some uneasiness in the mostly black city over the near veneration of a book that stereotypes blacks. Butterfly McQueen, 75, who played the movie role of Prissy, Miss Scarlett's maid, showed up with tongue firmly in cheek. Handed an album of the stamps, she repeated her most famous GWTW line: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' about birthin' babies...
...GWTW still has a way to go to become the all-time videotape best seller. That record is held by Jane Fonda's Workout ($59.95), last week's No. 3, which in three years has raked in more than $40 million. Boasts Court Shannon, a vice president of Karl-Lorimar Home Video, which produced the exercise guide: "Jane Fonda has greater endurance than Scarlett and a longer-lasting beauty." Perhaps, but tomorrow is another...