She wants others to be happy, as well-"their own way.” Margaret Mitchell’s heroine hobbled home to Tara swearing she’d never be hungry again. This Scarlett wants to be happy, not to run lumber mills or stores. “Now they could truly be friends,” she reflects. When her old crush Ashley Wilkes finally proposes, on, this Scarlett says no. Her obsession is not survival but love for Rhett. Ripley’s heroine is a single mom whose hurts feel better when she sees her baby. Orchestrated hype is only one difference between the sequel and the original. That led to rumors that “Scarlett” was a bust, especially as “Gone With the Wind” made its name being passed hand to hand long before it reached book stores. No prepublication copies surfaced, even in New York’s book world. Reporters received copies last weekend, under oath that their articles wouldn’t appear before today. Warner publicists have engineered a splashy publication, including items on this evening’s networks news shows and “Entertainment Tonight,” and, Thursday, with Regis and Kathie Lee. Otherwise, the book has been mostly a mystery. The publishing community has known of Scarlett’s search for roots for quite some time. “I started reading up on Ireland,” says Ripley, “and I thought, ‘Thank you, God.’ What we have at this time in Ireland is like 20 years before in the (United States).
“I started finding out what was going on in American history, and it was"-she squinches her mouth up and sings a word- “nuh -thing.”
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Before film sales, TV or china from the Franklin Mint, Margaret Mitchell’s heirs will earn about $10 million from the book Mitchell insisted never be written.īut Ripley moved her tale out of the South and the United States. It reaches book stores today-a million and a quarter copies, in 18 languages, in 40 countries. But Warner Books, the publishers, preferred “Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind.” “The sequel.” That’s what Alexandra Ripley wanted to call her new book. Now we’re doing it again in ’91 when the sequel’s coming out.” “Then we went through it again in ’89 when the movie was 50 years old.
“We went through this when the book was 50 years old in ’86,” says Bridges. Such are life’s burdens when you own more “Gone With the Wind” collectibles than anyone else in the world and times like these arise.
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Reporters keep calling from Denver and New York and Paris, plus there’s an exhibit to be set up at the local historical society and another at Macy’s in Atlanta. It’s getting hectic for Herb Bridges, down in Sharpsburg, Ga.