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Gone With the Wind will now come with a trigger warning for those affected by descriptions of 19th century slavery in the Deep South.  The Daily Telegraph in the UK reports that publisher Pan Macmillan has decided readers could find depictions of the era "hurtful or indeed harmful," and is adding a…

Mickey Kuhn, the last surviving credited cast member of the 1939 film classic Gone With The Wind, died Sunday at a hospice facility in Naples, FL. He was 90. His death was announced in a Facebook post by friend George Terrell. Related Story Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gal…

The rules of survival in Hollywood have always fascinated me. "Consistency is the key – always present yourself to studios as a total bitch," Bette Davis once confided. "Never delude yourself into thinking that a star can become a loyal personal friend," advised Billy Wilder. "Since studios always lie, a producer's…

It seems we are living through a phase of so-called “cancel culture” these days. Just this week, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it will no longer publish six lesser-known books by the famed children’s author due to offensive and racist depictions. Mr. Potato Head is now non-gender. Some episodes of The Muppet…

Jimmy Fallon responded to HBO Max’s addition of proper social notices with a film intro of his own. On Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show, Fallon dressed up as Cherished Cinema Classic (spoof of TCM) host Clyde Darwell to introduce Passion on the Prairie, a fake 1940s Hollywood film. Much like Jacqueline Stewart in…

EXCLUSIVE: Believe it or not the 1990 Oscar-winning box office blockbuster Ghost celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, and to mark that milestone Paramount Home Entertainment’s Paramount Presents label releases a new limited edition collectible Blu-ray on Tuesday which has been remastered from a 4K film transfer…

Could Walt Disney be next? Really? Let me explain: Most industry people I know were drawn to Hollywood by the prospect of creating things, not cancelling things. Now the dialogue has shifted, whether about airports (John Wayne), statues (Teddy Roosevelt) or movies (Gone With the Wind). Could logos be next? Walt Disney…

A day after WarnerMedia's Sandra Dewey promised a virtual Cannes that Gone With the Wind would be back on HBO Max "very soon," the controversial 1939 film has indeed returned – with some poignant historical context "about the film's handling of the topic of slavery, and its treatment of Black characters." Pulled from…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director John Ridley has been writing and directing film and TV projects about racial conflict his whole career. And despite winning the Oscar for scripting 12 Years a Slave, he has always found it a tough sell, the idea of forcing people to confront their own feelings about race and prejudice. He is…

Bob Greenblatt, WarnerMedia’s entertainment and direct-to-consumer chairman, called the decision to temporarily pull Gone With the Wind “a no-brainer” but said it will be restored because “we can’t censor these films.” The executive made the comments Thursday in an interview on Sirius XM with Jess Cagle, the former…

Actor and rapper Tip “T.I.” Harris and Jeff Clanagan, Kevin Hart’s business partner, represented the entertainment perspective in a virtual panel Thursday examining issues across society and culture raised by the George Floyd protests. “There is no perfect revolution,” Harris said. But even if ultimate outcomes don’t…

"If you want to make consistently lousy decisions, hire a consultant." That was the defiant dictum that Ted Turner barked at me a few years ago when I was doing a column about his latest financial crisis. I had told him that one of his outside advisers had decreed that his decision-making process was "off the wall,"…