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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 05:00 PM
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Poll question: Favorite Gone with the Wind character:
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Va Lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 07:09 PM
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1. "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies"
Edited on Sun May-14-06 07:09 PM by Va Lefty
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 07:11 PM
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2. Carol Burnett
Edited on Sun May-14-06 07:25 PM by Oeditpus Rex
"I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist it."

:rofl:



(Edited to add image and fix quote.)
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 07:30 PM
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4. Best. Skit. EVAH!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 07:32 PM
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5. Yup... killed me
Check out: http://www.carolburnettfan.com/burnett_wwtw2.html
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 07:53 PM
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6. Yeah, but it's funnier if you remember her silly Southern accent...
she saw it in the "winda."

That skit can still reduce me to laughter and tears in a matter of seconds, no matter how many times it's seen or discussed!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 08:08 PM
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8. Here's the sound file
http://www.carolburnettfan.com/screengrabs/went_with_the_wind/saw_it_in_the_window.mp3

Others and all kinds o' photos from that sketch at the link above. :hi:
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 08:59 PM
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11. I absolutely remember how she sounded
In fact, a couple of months ago, there was a Carol Burnett special, and they showed that skit. I too, laugh 'till I cry!
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 11:05 AM
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19. Isn't That A Bob Mackie Costume?
Or was it something that the set-designer/costumer just threw together?

Thanks for the photo and the laugh, Oeditpus Rex!! That's one of my favorite Carol Burnett skits!!
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blue neen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 07:14 PM
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3. Scarlett did what she had to do to survive.
I like that.
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 10:59 AM
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17. In 8th grade my teacher snatched that book from my hands
and told me it was not a book to read as we hear enough about sex as it is. What! I was going to a very fundie (what fun?!) boarding school. I was shocked to say the least. Later on in high school I was reading it and the director of the school told me I shouldn't read it because Scarlett was a bad person that no woman should look up too. Lord save us from dirty books about uppity women.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 07:54 PM
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7. Miss Katie Scarlett O'Hara, of course. Rhett Butler second.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 10:28 AM
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16. Absolutely spot-on.
Not just because the great southern belle was played by an English actress either ;)
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 08:30 PM
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9. I would marry Rhett Butler oh yes I would and Charleston is
the best city in the whole wide world.
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 08:58 PM
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10. The extras who tried to waylay Scarlett on the bridge
they were great!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 12:11 AM
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12. Belle Watling
She had a good heart, and wasn't so goddam prissy.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 12:23 AM
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13. I could always identify with Scarlett
She was strong, but weak at the same time. I know, her character was a spoiled brat. But, there was something about her I couldn't help but be drawn to.
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cmkramer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 10:11 AM
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15. She was a survivor
Scarlett was tough and she would do whatever it took to survive including working with Yankees, etc.

Did anyone else read the "sequel" that came out in the 1990's called "Scarlett"? I hated it because they turned Rhett Butler into this awful wimp.
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 12:23 AM
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14. I do declare Mr. Rhett has stolen my heart.

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Left_Winger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 11:01 AM
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18. I'm rather partial to that ol' mule
who gave his life so that b---h Scarlett could make it back to her precious Tara.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 11:05 AM
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20. Sherman
Every character in that film is unsympathetic.
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 11:07 AM
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21. Even Rhett? n/t
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 12:24 PM
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23. He raped Scarlette!
The fact that she was smiling with afterglow the next morning does not change that.
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 12:33 PM
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24. You do have a point there. n/t
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 11:27 AM
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22. Mammy
She was great-she was the only person who really loved Scarlett for who she was, that was why it was so easy in the end for Scarlett to break her heart.

She was Scarlett's mother, for all intents and purposes. The book makes that far clearer than the movie does.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 12:58 PM
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25. Um...I kinda wish they all woulda burned with Atlanta....
All of them were spoiled rich gentry, not too different than the Paris Hiltons of today, that did no real work but instead lived off the sweat of the slaves.

And the slaves in the book were content with this - who do you know who would be content with 12 hour days, abuse and no pay????
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 01:40 PM
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27. Cump! Cump! Cump!
That's what Sherman's friends called him. Short for Tecumseh, his middle name.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 01:05 PM
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26. Scarlett is the most selfish, ignorant, self-involved lead role ever
GWTW is terrible because of the useless woman at it's center.

Her mere presence makes the movie the most tedious film imaginable.

In short, GWTW sucks.
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