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...significance of the international spectacle goes beyond money and real estate--it has to do with Atlanta's identity and self-esteem. For a city known primarily for peach trees and Scarlett O'Hara, the prospect of being placed alongside Rome, Berlin, Stockholm and Tokyo is dizzying...
...decades, critics lamented that cinema, unlike painting and music, was yoked to narrative. Movies told stories about real people, and the audience was meant to care about them. Would Rick leave Casablanca with Ilsa? Would Scarlett get Rhett? Film theorists didn't care. They wanted movies to slip the shackles of realism and burst into modernism. For cinema to enter the intellectual mainstream, there had to be movies whose subject was movies...
...Murphy Brown and Capital News depict journalistic superstars strutting down the corridors of power in Washington. Working Girl is climbing her way into the upper echelons of New York corporate life; next maybe Tess will be dating Donald Trump. In Atlanta the Designing Women are even less likely than Scarlett O'Hara ever to be hungry again. Newhart is living the yuppie fantasy of owning a Vermont country inn. Even the downwardly mobile Philadelphia lawyer of Shannon's Deal can still manage to take a first date out for a $172 restaurant meal. Yes, one of My Two Dads...
What do Rhett, Scarlett and the burning of Atlanta have to do with California Cabernet? Frankly, my dear, absolutely nothing. Still, Fujisankei Communications Group is betting that the gang from Tara may hold the key to marketing American wines in Japan. The company has uncorked a new line of four California wines to be sold in Japan under a Gone With the Wind label. It hopes to capitalize on Japan's near obsessive love for the 1939 epic, which company official Tsutomu Nakamura describes as "a symbol of American culture and an unforgettable dream of youth...
...Turner has launched a publishing company, and is shopping for a movie studio (though negotiations to purchase MGM/UA have come to a halt). Visitors to his Atlanta headquarters can even browse through the Turner Store, which sells everything from CNN T shirts to Wizard of Oz beach towels and Scarlett O'Hara chocolates...