Margaret Mitchell

As a boy, Harrison Mero heard stories about his Grandpa Joe secretly ferrying slaves to the North through the Underground Railroad and listening to abolitionist Frederick Douglass speak in Connecticut. | "We heard how Grandpa Joe was an outspoken guy at a...

UNTIL YOU'VE lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is," said the great Gone with the Wind writer Margaret Mitchell. I wonder how "free" John Edwards is feeling these days? If Edwards thought by breaking...

Fred Crane, a former longtime Los Angeles classical music radio announcer who achieved a slice of film immortality when he played one of the handsome Tarleton twins in the 1939 movie classic "Gone With the Wind," has died. He was 90. Crane, who had...

For the sake of English letters, J.K. Rowling should let go. Harry Potter has finished school and is out making his way in the world; it's time for his progenitor to stop clinging. The phenomenally successful author is doing no favors to herself, her...

Atlanta Amuch-needed storm drenched Atlanta on Oct. 22, the day the Dalai Lama spoke to thousands in Centennial Olympic Park. For many, his words brought the kind of water that nourishes the seeds of compassion and humanity. On that day, Emory...

In the sweet science of early-21st-century struggles over intellectual property rights, the title fights tend to be fairly technology-rich. Court cases over network DVR, Viacom's continuing battle against Google, Microsoft's grudge match with the open-...

Actress Ann Rutherford is "just tickled" that Gone With the Wind, the 1939 movie epic she was in, is celebrated now as a document of Civil War history and a piece of American history itself. But she understands why some black Americans don't celebrate the...

From The Times: March 1, 1940 Two English motion-picture players won the highest awards last night from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. They are Vivien Leigh for her performance in "Gone With the WInd," a Selznick International...

Don't expect to lose weight in the South. The food is rich and the servings large. Southerners have a sweet tooth; meats and vegetables are often flavoured with sugar or honey, and there are tempting desserts like pecan pie, banana pudding and peach...

I grew up reading the Los Angeles Times, but not long ago I canceled the subscription I had held for nearly 30 years. Though I graduated from college a proud liberal, my political views have moved steadily rightward as I've grown older, and I came to find...

Officer Jeff Nolte was leading a drug raid on a motel in Gardena when a suspected cocaine dealer pointed a shotgun at him. Nolte fired two shots "in immediate defense of his life," hitting the suspect, Leonard Robinson, in the hands and disarming him. At...

What do you think of the WGA list? ++++++++++++++++++++ || 1. || CASABLANCA Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison || || 2. || THE GODFATHER...