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...ambitious, as coquettish, as headstrong as her childhood celluloid idol, Scarlett O'Hara. And when Governor John Y. Brown, 48, swept Phyllis George, 33, off her feet, he seemed as dashing and roguishly gallant as Rhett Butler. But now any similarity between Butler, that blockade-running profiteer, and Brown is frankly causing the Governor to give a damn. Over the past few years, the former owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken has apparently been withdrawing sacks of hundred dollar bills from his account at a bank in Miami, not far from his vacation home. His total haul: $1.3 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 11, 1982 | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...puts it in perspective. She is happy to talk about some of her favorite leading men. Spencer Tracy (nine films with Hepburn, from Woman of the Year in 1942 to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1967): "Spence was a magic actor, funny and quick." Gary Grant (Sylvia Scarlett, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story): "He was great fun. He had a wonderful sense of comedy." John Wayne (Rooster Cogburn): "He wasn't as clever as Spence, but a brilliant actor nonetheless, bigger than life in his performance?and often when he didn't have to be." Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Who Get It Right | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...construction projects generously support Blount's Old South lifestyle. His version of Scarlett O'Hara's Tara is Wynfield, a rambling 140-acre estate near Montgomery, complete with a 19-room Georgian mansion, a swimming pool, stables and magnolia trees. The bright red hair that earned him the nickname of his youth is now sparse and streaked with gray, but the strapping, 6-ft. 2-in. Blount keeps trim with frequent tennis matches and ski trips to Vail, Colo. On jaunts to visit construction sites around the U.S., he sometimes personally pilots one of his company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Jackpot | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...Scarlett Clark Southampton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 4, 1981 | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...simple sex. It moves out of reality into an erotic ballet that touches everything: compulsion, love, death. Jessica made me sexy. She does that. Few are the men who do not want to fall at her feet. She's a big, consensus movie sex bomb." Miss Scarlett, meet Mr. Butler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Post Mark of Cain | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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