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...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...
...adjectives and adverbs, Segal created the Evelyn Wood Primer without the Evelyn Wood course. His novel naturally made the critics apoplectic. What more serious writers hoped to develop-the cinematic novel-Segal achieved rather grossly in a pulp classic that has more blackouts than Laugh-In or Meander. The GWTW Margaret Mitchell shouldn't be living at this hour to see how Hollywood has bastardized the best-seller. Segal's screenplay has so little substance that the movie had to be padded just to make it feature length...
...friends and influence editors. The girls are already on the road, whooping up the picture's merits and trumpeting the number of Gone With the Wind records already shattered. Some of them: shooting time, eight months and three weeks, about a month more than Selznick's GWTW; extras and bit players, 3,000; nine stars, including Joseph Gotten, Gregory Peck, Walter Huston, Lillian Gish and Jennifer (Bernadette) Jones, who is cast this time as a sexy, busty half-breed...
...Rebecca, released after GWTW, was finished by the time GWTW was premiered...
With as much of an aura of the coming millennium as GWTW surrounding its approach, FWTBT--"For Whom the Bell Tolls"--seems to be a little battle-scarred but still on its feet. If Hemingway's story had hit the screen unpublicized it probably would have been picked out as a marvelous picture and knowing souls would shake their heads and say, "Now there's a fine picture. Why didn't those Hollywood people give it a better break...