The film, set in the American South during the time of the Civil War, tells the story of Scarlett O’Hara (played by Vivien Leigh), the headstrong and willful daughter of the owner of the plantation Tara. The story begins in 1861. Scarlett is in love with Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), but she learns that he intends to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland). At a party at Ashley’s home, Scarlett’s overtures to Ashley are seen by another guest, Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Ashley rebuffs Scarlett, and she therefore agrees to marry Melanie’s brother Charles (Rand Brooks). War is declared, and the men go off to enlist. Charles dies of measles during the war, and the widowed Scarlett goes to Melanie’s home in Atlanta. She meets Rhett at a charity fund-raising bazaar, and she dances with him, violating the customary rules of mourning. Rhett, a successful blockade runner, continues to visit Scarlett over the next few months, as Atlanta comes increasingly under sieg
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Wind, TCM host Eddie Muller notes Malcolm X s mention of the film in his 1965 autobiography. I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug, the activist wrote. Some intros examine the expectation of who an audience for a film might be in the case of classic movies, producers were thinking almost exclusively of white audiences. It s important to come face-to-face with that uncomfortable idea that what many of us have considered safe is the opposite of that for other people, says TCM host Alicia Malone. One person s safety can be another person s trauma.
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Twenty-five years after Cheryl Dunyeâs The Watermelon Woman (1996), the first US feature directed by an âoutâ Black lesbian, you can count on a single hand the number of films offering such an audacious subversion of the filmic gaze. The Watermelon Woman takes Black lesbians as its subject matter, but also â and most importantly â as a standpoint from which to challenge the basis of representation, history and how stories are told.
In The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl, a fledgling Black lesbian filmmaker played by Dunye herself, sets out to make a documentary about Faith Richardson, a lost cinematic ancestor glimpsed in 1930s race films. Playfully switching between 16mm film and the glorious, radical and short-lived 1990s grainy videotape aesthetic, Dunye layers slices of everyday life with black-and-white archival bits about Faith.Â
Oskaloosa News Recap For January 7th, 2021
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More people are leaving the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area due to the COVID crisis, than any other region in the country.
United Van Line’s annual moving survey for 2020 found that NJ led all states with 70% of people exiting, while only 30% moved in.
NY and Illinois were tied for second worst with departures accounting for 67% of all moves between March and October.
Connecticut took the third spot with 63% of residents leaving the state.
The states with the highest “move-in” rate include: Idaho (70%), South Carolina (64%), Oregon (63%), South Dakota (62%) and Arizona (62%).