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GONE WITH THE GARBAGE At the time of its release in 1939 GONE WITH THE WIND (or, GWTW for short) was, without a doubt, the most highly publicized movie-event of the decade. And, I also believe that it was the most expensive movie-production to date. The ridiculous publicity frenzy for GWTW was initiated by MGM's Movie-Hype Dept.. It began nearly 2 years before the movie's actual release date. The big scam at this early stage of GWTW-fever was 'Finding the perfect Scarlet O'Hara'. The reason why I call it a scam is because the actress to play this lead role had already been picked. This actress was, of course, Vivien Leigh, whose signature was already on the MGM contract, and film production was soon to commence as planned. But, nevertheless, MGM kept this delectable, little morsel of info a total secret from, not only, the general public, but also from most everyone else in the movie industry who they figgered couldn't keep their mouths shut. And, so for the following year MGM painstakingly went through this really stupid farce of auditioning and screen-testing every potential actress (and her dog). And, believe me, the women, literally, came in droves to Hollywood, from one end of the country to the other, in hopes of becoming MGM's Scarlet O'Hara-Discovery. Big friggin' deal. Can you believe this type of promotional bulls.h.i.t!? But it was a mighty effective ploy for plugging GWTW. MGM milked this one to the last drop. And, it worked! It had people everywhere talking-talking-talking about GWTW even before the frickin' movie had actually gone into production. Originally, the director for GWTW was to have been George Cukor. MGM had him all signed up and ready to start shooting. But because of some strong protests, and even a refusal to co-operate, made by super-star, Clark Gable, Cukor was soon replaced by Victor Fleming. This truly eye-opening story behind one of the great directorial switches in film history goes, pretty much, like this........Back in 1925 when Gable first arrived in Hollywood to begin his career as an actor he did what many young men did at the time. And, that was, he allowed himself to be 'serviced' by certain homosexual men in the movie industry who would promise to help his acting career in return. A couple of these men who had blown Gable in those early days of his career just happened to be close friends of George Cukor's, who was also a homosexual. Naturally, Gable assumed that Cukor was well aware (which he certainly was) of his questionable career-climbing strategies and he absolutely hated him for it. Gable could not look Cukor in the eye or bear the thought of having to take directions from him for the long months of filming that lay ahead for both of them. And, so, as a result of knowing about some BJ's given years ago to Gable by a couple of his buddies, Cukor was turfed from the GWTW set, and Victor Fleming, fresh off the set of THE WIZARD OF OZ, took over the directorial reigns. This Clark Gable/BJ incident would turn out to be one of Hollywood's best kept secrets for nearly 40 years. It wasn't until 1978, when, about 5 years before his death, George Cukor finally let the MGM cat out of the bag. Meow!!! To-The-Max. Personally, I found GWTW to be a big, 4 hour bore. It was far too over-rated for its own good. All the unfounded hype that this movie's received since its initial release has created the illusion that it's far superior to what it really is. The movie GWTW was adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name, written by Margaret Mitchell in 1936. It is a novel that promotes and applauds the ideals of slavery for blacks. It's a novel over-flowing with racial prejudices and bigotry, and the belief in the intellectual inferiority of Afro-Americans. It is over a thousand pages in length and, like the movie, it also is a big, fat bore. email this review to a friend
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