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Yep. The only thing missing is Powell taking a whiff of the no doubt heavily perfumed card. Sorry guy, Philip only swings one way.

The New South had to start somewhere.

-Are you Philip Marlowe, the private investigator? -Yes, how can I help you? -I'm the obviously homosexual man who comes to see you in just about all of your novels and movies. -Oh yeah, come on in, I've been expecting you.

Mammy, if I ever see you riding one of those cotton burners again, I'll tan your hide.

Yes, as the blog you posted noted, she did start a sawmill/lumber business before Frank Kennedy died. Maybe she could have named her growing business empire Fiddledeedee, Inc.

Yes, Frank Kennedy. He seemed an obliging enough gent to help the O'Hara family, fellow Irish-Americans and the family of his fiancee. Of course if he had married Suellen that would have put Scarlett a few rungs down the ladder of power, which was something she couldn't tolerate. And Suellen might have wanted to give Scarlett a few lessons in humility.

I thought the space between the two "paragraphs" would show that the first was distinct from the second. I also thought that most folks would know the difference between Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers. Blue Sky is the name of the song. Well you know what they say about assume. I too figured the two local yokels knew about what Kathy Browne did after the sun set and gave Vince her phone number. I also have seen Kathy in loads of TV shows from the 1960s. A very pretty actress. She almost married Adam on Bonanza, but then fell for his cousin. I believe she escaped the curse of the women who were about to marry one of the Cartwright boys. She was also on Perry Mason, maybe more than once. The two guys who escorted Vince around LA had it pretty easy. Just drive the guy around and twiddle their thumbs most of the time. Vastly overpaid. The interactions between the three of them was one of the best parts of the picture. Of course in the end they were both killed, even Bernardi who liked Vince.

I'm sure a person of Scarlett's intelligence and deviousness would have found a way to turn a legal buck, without having to marry a wealthy old codger (okay he was only a middle aged codger, but old codger is funnier.) She could have rented the remaining slaves out as day labor and maybe done the same with her sisters. She would have led a less glamorous life, but she could have done okay. In some aspects the movie is a period piece, in others it's a rather over the top melodrama, a sometimes entertaining one at that.

I watched this on YT a few years ago. Pretty decent low budget flick. If I recall it correctly, Vince Edwards was kind of the cold-blooded professional type who was also a bit of a smart aleck. And at 80 minutes it moves along at a good pace.

I saw parts of it and found it very interesting. And being 43 years old it's also a bit of a time capsule from the late 1970s. I recognized Jill Johnston, who wrote for The Village Voice and was fairly well known in feminist circles in the 1960s and 1970s. She looked a bit like Joni Mitchell in this film. I got a kick out of the woman with the beehive do and the woman she was in a relationship with, who was dressed like a man. Sitting together on a couch they look like Mr. and Mrs. Suburban Squares, which I doubt was the impression they meant to give.

But "beating them at their own game" implies that she is playing their game, which is basically a corrupt, dishonest one. I think she could have provided for herself and her various dependents without marrying the rich guy. That allows her to get back close to her original economic situation, as long as she's willing to keep cheating in business. No doubt some slaves got the hell off the plantation and some stayed, whether for practical or other reasons. Perhaps it was more likely that the house servants would have stayed and the field hands would have left.

How about Scarlett is a belle on wheels? She finally gets back to her original position by marrying a rich old dude who kindly exits so she can inherit the business and build it up, likely through questionable business dealings. Nothing to applaud in a person of either gender.

Yeah, the first half seems relatively subdued, plus it takes some exposition time to get the melodrama train up to full speed. And the Civil War is obviously going to put most of the characters into places they didn't expect to be and upend their mostly placid lives. And the visuals and production values and the whole epic sweep of the Civil War story are first rate. I vaguely remember going on a school trip to see GWTW in one of its re-releases. How the teachers sold a trip to see an almost four hour movie as educational and why they would want to take a mess of kids to do so is beyond me. Of course we got bored and there was a lot of snickering and joking, though I don't think anybody actually threw anything at the screen.

Have it discovered a few months after the tragic death on four legs of Bonnie that she is actually the illegitimate offspring of U.S. Grant and Prissy. Have Ashley open the first gay bar in Atlanta, the Carpetbugger.

Antebellum, Scarlett was a manipulative witch, bellum, she was a manipulative witch, postbellum, she was a manipulative witch, just in a more economic sphere. She stole her sister's husband to be, married the rich old coot and he graciously was killed and she inherited the business. After that it was more exploitation and low dealing. Sort of business Donny with better hair. Wind is kind of the culmination of the higher Hollywood nonsense. As entertaining as if often is, it's difficult not to see it as a piece of overheated melodrama.

I don't know nothin' about streaming no platforms.

I've read that Van Zant eventually came to be easier on Young and would sometimes wear a Neil Young tee shirt in concert and say he admired Young's music. The recent version of Skynyrd seems to be more right wing than the original. Good old Sunday mornin', bells are ringin' everywhereGoin' to Carolina, it won't be long and I'll be there

Yes, it's from Sweet Home Alabama. I often can't recall exactly how LS is spelled either. I like both Neil Young and Skynyrd, so I really don't have a problem with either one. I haven't seen Duel in the Sun in ages. I seem to recall that Jennifer Jones was made up to look like she was of mixed parentage. Parts of that movie were certainly over the top in a LOL way.

The only way I buy Mary Anderson being a "negro," is if she was supposed to be of mixed race and they were applying the one-drop rule. Other than that, it's pretty idiotic.

Well, I hope Neil Young will rememberA southern man don't need him around, anyhow.

My grandmother was big on Reader's Digest. I think the name of the feature was My Most Unforgettable Character. I just finished family by Ian Frazier a while ago. It's part boomer memoir, part family history, and part general reflections on different topics. Interesting and well written. There is a fairly lengthy section on certain Civil War battles as some of Frazier's ancestors fought in the war on the Union side.

I'd probably keep it secret for a little while.

I did. Not that they were indistinguishable, but I saw similarities. Of course that's without the aid of X-Ray vision.

I guess Bob was a cougar magnet. I had forgotten about Barbara Stanwyck. She liked his boyish good looks and he liked her big valley. Getting back to Noel Neill for a minute. I thought she looked pretty similar to Phyllis Coates, the other actress who played Lois Lane.

Despite the differences in age and interests--he liked flower arranging and she never missed a midget wrestling match, they fell hard for each other immediately. They just couldn't keep their hands off each other. Many years after it was over Mary confided to a gal pal, "Bobby, oh dear. He made George look like Daffy Duck."