The TV and Film Guy's Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... together. That is, until true love (if it is true love) in the form of the dashing and handsome Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) comes along. Gone with the Wind is an epic. It is a war film, it is a history, it is a love story, it is a melodrama. It is also one of those films which represents incredibly different things to different people. Someone in the film industry might note that the...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The most popular movie ever — winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture — was first released 70 years ago.For fans of "Gone With the Wind," the epic tale of the American South from the days of slavery through the Civil War and Reconstruction, this has resulted in seven decades of adoration for the dashing Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), the willful Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh),...
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Over at the Lemondro p , they've compiled a list of 15 literary charcaters "they'd totally sleep with." Most of them of them are pretty standard fantasies that we've all had (Jay Gatsby, Mr Darcy, Rhett Butler, Heathcliff). Some of them are from newer works, and are admittedly pretty hot (Noah Calhoun from The Notebook and Dr Carlisle Cullen from Twilight – YUM !) Then...
Scientific American (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... every day—or some 50,000 species a year—as the forests fall.According to researcher and writer Rhett Butler, who runs the critically acclaimed website, Mongabay.com, tropical rainforests are incredibly rich ecosystems that play a key role in the basic functioning of the planet. They help maintain the climate by regulating atmospheric gases and stabilizing rainfall, and provide many...
