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...popular demand, it would seem, Jane Seymour has already won the part of Scarlett O'Hara in an upcoming sequel to the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind. The only trouble, reports the actress, "is that I haven't been approached by the people making the movie." This unflattering state of affairs came about when newspapers in Britain and the U.S. simultaneously asked readers who would be their favorite choice to refill the role made famous by Vivien Leigh. Seymour won both polls hands down, and rumors began to fly. "People have been asking me about this for months...
...sexy spiritual being sent to earth by her father, the God of the Universe, in order to experience the woes and sufferings of mankind. Valerie Steiker, who has the drop-dead looks of a Hindu goddess, plays her with the allure and comic Southern wit of a displaced Scarlett O'Hara...
...Karl, I'm sooo touched," said Kimberly, sounding just a little bit like Scarlett O'Hara. But this was no Southern belle, for after slipping the postcard down her blouse, she politely demanded Karl's phone number. He refused...
THIS IS NOT fair. A movie traditionally sets up a problem and then lets you watch the characters try to solve it. Arnold just stomps the problem into shapeless bits. Imagine that right after Rhett sees Scarlett at the party at Twelve Oaks he grabs her, drags her off, and rapes her. Brutal, horrible, you bet, but it gets you right to the credits...
Local officials were notably absent from the stampissuing ceremony, however, and there was 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...