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...sold and still counting. The 3 3/4-hour movie, owned by Ted Turner since he bought the MGM film library in 1985, has become the eternal flame of popular culture. It is a safe bet that somewhere in the world, day and night, Clark Gable's Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara flicker across a screen...
...Margaret Mitchell estate, sold the foreign rights for $5 million more. William Morris' Robert Gottlieb believes film rights could sell in the "high seven figures." Scarlett is the first published sequel to Gone With the Wind, though it is not the first one written. Fifteen years ago, Leigh's biographer Anne Edwards wrote Tara: The Continuation of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. It was to be the basis for a joint film venture by Universal Pictures and MGM. When the deal soured, Edwards was left with an unpublishable manuscript, since its copyright was linked to the release...
...against B.C.C.I. while serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer in January 1990. Replied an ashen-faced Major, who said he had learned of the full extent of the bank fraud only on June 28: "If you are saying I am a liar, you had better say so bluntly." Robin Leigh-Pemberton, governor of the Bank of England, later affirmed that Major first received details of the scandal in late June...
British authorities said they were virtually forced to shut the bank. Leigh- Pemberton defended the seizure on grounds that "the culture of the bank is criminal." While he called the well-regarded Zayed's purchase of the bank "a welcome development," he said the corruption that originated with B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi and his fellow Pakistani managers had penetrated the entire institution. "The fraud involved not only past management but continuing management, board members and representatives of the shareholders," Leigh-Pemberton said. Yet he insisted that the full scale of the wrongdoing had only recently come to light...
VIOLENT FEMMES: WHY DO BIRDS SING? (Slash/Reprise). Ornery, typically strange and downright swell. When these three tie into a song like Life Is a Scream, they make the inside of your head sing like Janet Leigh in her Psycho shower...