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...Wind Done Gone indisputably uses characters, events and settings from GWTW. Randall changes names--Scarlett O'Hara becomes "Other," Rhett Butler "R," Ashley Wilkes "Dreamy Gentleman"--but these draw whatever substance they have in this version from the people fleshed out in Mitchell's novel. Randall's invention is the character Cinnamon/Cynara, the slave Mammy's mulatto daughter and the half sister of Scarlett, er, Other. Cynara's diary forms the basis of The Wind Done Gone. She writes of her childhood at Cotton Farm and Tata (Tara) and then of events after the period covered in GWTW: her freedom...
...Players: Emmitt Smith, Fred Taylor, Jevon Kearse, Kevin Carter, Ike Hilliard, Reidel Anthony, Lomas Brown, Mo Collins, Jacquez Green, Errict Rhett...
Liar's courage aside, certain couples do seem destined. It is difficult to imagine substitute partners for Fred and Ginger, Rhett and Scarlett, Roy and Dale. Would a benevolent fate have tossed together George and Dale? Roy and Gracie? I have a hard time picturing Bonnie and Ozzie. There's a wizened couple who travel in New York semi-literary circles who are both so poisonous, it is impossible to believe the gods would have allowed them to infect two others...
...broaden the context: never rise to a provocation, especially on that subject. Do not! Turn aside temptation. Go deeply Zen. Repeat a mantra. Think of Rhett Butler at Ashley Wilkes' place early in Gone With the Wind, when he confronts the naive Southern glory-talk. Clark Gable bows slightly and ironically and works his mouth in that sly, urbane way, saying, with a tricky formality of self-effacement, "I apologize for all my shortcomings...
...hold that mint julep, Rhett: the flag in question is done in red, black and green--the colors of African liberation. In the heart of the city where the first shots of the Civil War rang out, Sherman Evans and Angel Quintero, both 34, both black, have fired a volley of their own. At NuSouth, their 10-month-old boutique, all the gear features that red, black and green flag logo, a symbol, they say, of racial solidarity. "It's about unification, not polarization," says Quintero, noting that most of his customers are white. The line has caught the attention...