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Carter also told Congress that he planned to announce some of his choices for Cabinet positions within a couple of weeks. Aware that the talent hunt is beginning to resemble David O. Selznick's search for a Scarlett O'Hara, Carter said: "I'll be a little slow and a little more methodical about the selection of Cabinet members than has been the case in the past." He also said his appointments would be "a good balance of newcomers combined with Washington experience." The one probable appointee whose name trickled out last week belonged unmistakably...
Almost forty years have passed since Scarlett O'Hara, spurned by Rhett Butler, sat down on the stairway of her Atlanta house to mull over the future. Now, at last, Scarlett's petty-paced tomorrow is about to dawn-in a new novel and movie. Hollywood Producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown have won the right to produce a movie sequel to Margaret Mitchell's classic tale of the Old South, Gone With the Wind...
...soon to be published work on Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett in the movie. Says Edwards: "All my books are about survival, and Scarlett was an absolute master of the art. I also consider myself a great survivor. In fact, I think of myself as Scarlett O'Hara." There are some parallels. Edwards' father was born into a wealthy family, but was unable to earn a living after the money ran out in the 1930s. To help out, little Anne began earning her keep at the age of seven by singing and dancing in vaudeville theaters...
Music by RICHARD RODGERS Lyrics by LORENZ HART Book by JOHN O'HARA...
Musical comedies ignore that fact at their peril. John O'Hara's book has the spine of a skyscraper, with big-city sleaziness reflected in every panel of the glass-curtain wall. This is a Brechtian book in which a small-time heel, Joey (Christopher Chadman), with his naive boasts and shameless buttering-up, is letched onto by a rich, man-eating tigress named Vera (Joan Copeland), who loves him enough to stake him to a night club, but who coolly leaves him before he can leave...