Third-Tier Gone With the Wind Costume Sells for $137,000
Somebody coughed up $137,000 for a dress once worn by Vivien Leigh during the filming of Gone with the Wind.
Nobody Cares About the 75th Anniversary of Gone with the Wind
Terrible news if you're all dressed up in your drapes with nowhere to go: It's the 75th anniversary of the premiere of Gone with the Wind, and there's little fuss being raised besides a flurry of think pieces. Thank God.
Little Women Is Suddenly One of America's Favorite Books
Not sure how this happened, but I'm certainly not going to argue with it: Little Women has crept onto the list of America's ten favorite books, settling into the number eight spot. Meanwhile, Atlas Shrugged got bumped. Put one up on the big board for Jo March!
There's A New 'Gone With the Wind' Book About Mammy; People Suck
As if once wasn’t enough, the infamous and complicated Gone With The Wind character Mammy will get a spin-off book 75 years later. *slow clap*
Cambridge University Ditches Gone With the Wind Ball Theme Because Duh
A college at Cambridge University has been forced to revamp its annual spring dance, after complaints that their original inspiration was, well, racist. The objectionable subject matter? Gone with the Wind. Again, this is 2014 and these were students at the United Kingdom's Cambridge University, not Ole Miss.
For Fifty Grand, Scarlett O’Hara’s Breakfast Gown Can Be All Yours
If you have a huge pile of money just sitting on your kitchen table collecting cockroaches, you might want to consider putting in a bid for the blue accordion-pleated silk sleeping gown Scarlett O’Hara was wearing when Bonnie Blue Butler falls off the pony (and, spoiler alert, dies) in Gone with the Wind. How else…
Fiddle Dee Dee! Scarlett's Gowns Will Be Saved
More than 600 people from around the world responded to an appeal from The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, raising $30,000 to restore five of Scarlett O'Hara's dresses from Gone with the Wind.
Was Vivien Leigh A "Slutty Bisexual"?
According to a new biography, the star of Gone With The Wind allegedly had an insatiable appetite for "rough trade" and would pay hustlers with cigarette cases. As God is my witness, I'll never be desperately horny again!
Avril Lavigne's Perfume Is So Edgy
Give A Damn
In Frankly, My Dear: Gone With the Wind Revisited, feminist film scholar Molly Haskell explores what's behind the enduring appeal of "the racially backward, historically revisionist and bodice-rippingly ripe Oscar champ from 1939." [USA Today]
Dear Ladies: Chivalry Makes "Life More Worth Living"
Do you care if a guy opens the door for you? If he pulls your chair out at dinner? Well a British dating site, DatingDirect.com, surveyed 1,000 British men, and whether you like it or not they enjoy being chivalrous. According to the Times of London, 56% of British dudes "enjoy" paying for dinner on a date, and 34% of…
