Word: scarlett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...AFTER COLIN POWELL DECLINED TO enter the presidential race, many Americans felt an irritated deflation, followed by a wave of what might be called Scarlett O'Hara syndrome--a pining for the Ashley Wilkes we cannot have...
...American electorate's psychology that Powell should be the Ashley Wilkes in this piece, the unavailable paragon. (Pursuing the analogy too far is tough, since it involves transforming either Bob Dole or Bill Clinton into Rhett Butler.) As Powell's case shows, the romance of the withheld is powerful. Scarlett wanted Ashley because she could not have him. Human nature yearns for--idealizes--what is placed out of reach: Lycidas, the hero who dies in youth; Camelot, the bright, magic might-have-been. A politics of Zen--the most powerful presence is someone who isn't there...
...split from Michael, Whalley Kilmer said she "hopes to work out all the issues involved in the marriage amicably." The "issues" include Jack and three-year-old daughter Mercedes, as well as the not inconsiderable proceeds they earn from their trade, he most notably in Batman Forever, she in Scarlett. Whalley Kilmer is asking for custody of the children...
Brit actress draws unexpectedly nice reviews for Scarlett...
...tawdrier scenes are so strangely earnest that they fail to imbue this interminably long spectacle with the campiness it desperately needs. No one expected Scarlett to be comparable with David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind, the recipient of nine Academy Awards.But it might at least have tried to measure up to Melrose Place...