And why we’ll always give a damn

“…part of the movie’s allure is bound up with those conflicting emotions. As Molly Haskell has written in her recent book “Frankly, My Dear” (its title a tip of the hat to the picture’s most famous line), “Gone With the Wind” “is both different things to different people and different things to the same person at different times in that person’s life.” David Mermelstein/WSJ.com