Trigger Warning: This is a column about trigger warnings. Our coddling culture of celebrating weakness is perilously close to letting the above sentence become a serious, totally real, non-satirical norm. Take the latest label that was just added before Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel “Gone With The Wind.” It says that the old book, which was … Read more
Debating the merits of the Academy’s Best Picture winner is a time-honored tradition for any Oscars fan. As it turns out, even the Academy’s voters sometimes have second thoughts. In 2015, a Hollywood Reporter survey found that a majority would like to go back and change their 1977 votes for “Rocky” to “All the President’s … Read more
Film buffs are sure to give a damn about this revelatory piece of movie memorabilia. An unearthed shooting script for “Gone With The Wind” has exposed how a “war” over the depiction of slavery rocked the production of the beloved but controversial 1939 flick. The big-budget blockbuster — set against the backdrop of the Civil War and Reconstruction — … Read more
Mickey Kuhn — a child star of the 1930s and ’40s Golden Age of Hollywood — has died. He was 90. Kuhn famously made an appearance in the 1939 Civil War classic “Gone With the Wind” when he was just 6 years old. He was the last surviving member of that cast, as Olivia de … Read more