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...Selznick had already burned down the massive sets from King Kong and The Garden of Allah to effect the destruction of Atlanta. Selznick's brother Myron, slightly drunk, pulled up to the glowing ruins and triumphantly presented the young English actress: "I want you to meet your Scarlett O'Hara." Leigh remembered that when she got into Scarlett's costume for the test, it was still warm from the previous candidate...
Died. Sir Compton Mackenzie, 89, prolific, puckish patriarch of British letters; in Edinburgh. Though successful movies (Sylvia Scarlett, Tight Little Island) were adapted from Mackenzie works, the novel Sinister Street, banned as too risqué when it first appeared in 1913, remained the most popular of his more than 100 books. He wrote controversial nonfiction as well: Greek Memories (1932) earned him a ?100 fine for revealing official documents from his tenure as a World War I intelligence agent, and The Windsor Tapestry (1938) created a sensation with its passionate defense of Edward VIII's abdication. Mackenzie held...
From childhood Alan Bates has had an urge to play a romantic hero-a Rhett Butler, perhaps, carrying Scarlett O'Hara up the stairway of Tara. Instead, for most of his career he has been the antihero, borne along, as he puts it, "on the new wave of English writers -kitchen sinks and psychology." He was the funny but menacing brother in Harold Pinter's play and movie The Caretaker, the father who half mocks his helpless, brain-damaged child in the filmed version of A Day in the Life of Joe Egg, and the attractive...
...gets so "very lonely" while traveling. Cornelia, who is 33 (19 years younger than her husband), is smart, ambitious for both him and herself and experienced in the ways of politics. Although she sees herself more as "a Huck Finn" than "a Southern belle," her favorite fictional heroine is Scarlett O'Hara. "You saw what she did with that lumber company," Cornelia recently recalled. "When she had to, she took over that business and made a success of it. She made do for herself." In the face of her husband's probably permanent paralysis, Mrs. Wallace is determined...
Intimidated. Not all of the adjustments were confined to the men, of course. Vastly outnumbered, women tended initially to be intimidated in class, though the girls did well in their written work. "You were expected to be a mixture of Margaret Mead and Scarlett O'Hara," says Janet Lever. "There you are in class discussing Lolita, and the professor turns to you and asks for the woman's point of view. It created a very tense situation." By the second year, adds Pepper Schwartz, "the women students had been radicalized. They had more of an idea of what...