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...child of a dreamer-drifter who changed jobs and home towns every two years, Jessica had developed an active fantasy life, seeing Gone With the Wind 14 times, writing letters as Rhett Butler to herself as Scarlett. Now she would invent a life for Cora, to flesh out the novel's sparse details. Says she: "I imagined Cora's movements from the Midwest to Hollywood. I painted her parents with people familiar to me. I was from the Midwest. I had worked as a waitress. I had a grasp of reality...
Flamingo Road has a lot going for it: an infernal quadrangle straight out of Gone With the Wind (Lane, Sam, Fielding and Constance playing the roles of Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley and Melanie) with motives and M.O.s provocatively askew; randy women jackknifing their long bare legs around any man who will come near a canopied bed; meta-trash dialogue like "You're trouble, girl, nothin' but trouble." At the moment, a crushing share of the dramatic burden falls on the strong, hairy shoulders of Mark Harmon. His character, who is both rising-star politician and star-crossed lover...
Butterfly McQueen was not beautiful, but she had a quirky presence that impressed Producer David 0. Selznick. He gave her the role of Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's neurasthenic maid, in his 1939 production of Gone With the Wind. As Atlanta burned, Butterfly gave haunting memory to the line: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!" Looking as fresh and freckle-faced as ever, Butterfly and her quavery drawl have now returned to Atlanta. Still a part-time playground assistant in Harlem, she will act as hostess for the Gone With...
...exactly Scarlett O'Hara, but then who is? The real Dixie woman, says Daniell, is doomed to madness, spinsterhood or suicide unless she conforms to one of a few revered stereotypes. There is, among others, the belle, charming and pampered to a fare-thee-well, groomed for little more than catching men: "If a woman behaved correctly-that is, in a properly manipulative and feminine way-she would receive the rewards of a doting (and successful) husband, comfortable house, beautiful children, and freedom from the need to work for a living." There is also the good ole girl, "realistic...
Julia's neighbors fail to realize that Herman lives one step ahead of the bill collectors and the people who want to buy him out of his bakery shop. Alienated from the charmed world of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara by the South's rigid social hierarchy, Herman empathizes with Julia and her fellow Blacks. "I'm white," he says, "did it give me favors and friends?" The guilt that tortures him is more personal than Julia's; Herman feels he has betrayed his family, particularly his mother, with his love for a Black woman...