Gone - back into storage

Beautiful sketch I saw on etsy - click image to visit artist's site.

I took a "real" vacation this year. I went to Atlanta. While I was there I visited the Margaret Mitchel museum. The tour guide was so knowledgeable about the author of Gone with the Wind (and kindly answered each of my questions) so I found that I wanted to re-watch the movie. I know it's a classic, but it's not one I have ever liked. I saw it while I was a teenager and remember not liking it then - I just couldn't remember the specifics of why I felt that way about it. After watching it again, I remembered. I dislike every one of the characters (save Mrs. Ashley, Scarlet's selfless friend - though, no one I know is that kind and selfless so that character seemed a little plastic to me). Scarlet was more heartless than I remember her being. She was the epitome of selfishness in everything she did. Even Mr. Ashley didn't glow in this, though he seemed more respectable than Mr. Butler... and I was appalled at the scene where he took her upstairs and her apparent unconcern with that situation that seemed to glamorize it...  blah, blah, blah, right? There's so much online about this movie, but I had to put in my two cents.

I've been re-watching the Christy series lately. I want to say that came out somewhere around 1994 or 1995. I have been enjoying most of it. I wish they had stuck closer to the story line in the book, but they have to get in their agenda - specifically with the fabrication of a new character, a black medical student - media is always pushing something to keep people stirred up. Anyway, I like that series. I'm not surprised it didn't last more than a season, but I'm glad it was created to begin with. I think I'll pull out the book and re-read that soon.