Gone With the Wind

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Box Office Records Are Bunk
 Box Office Records Are Bunk 
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Box Office Records Are Bunk

Measuring a film's success in dollars is misleading

(Newser) - Not a year seems to go by without a film breaking a box-office records: Dark Knight a contender for biggest all-time earner! Bourne Ultimatum the top August opener! But that’s not because the films actually draw more viewers than the previous record-holders; it's because the figures are in dollars,...

'Ashley Wilkes' Was a Spy
 'Ashley Wilkes' Was a Spy 

'Ashley Wilkes' Was a Spy

Howard's plane shot down after delivering message to Franco

(Newser) - Best remembered as one of Scarlett O'Hara’s love interests in Gone with the Wind, actor Leslie Howard was also a British secret agent who died returning from a clandestine war mission on behalf of Winston Churchill, the Guardian reports. The Luftwaffe shot down Howard's plane in 1943 after the...

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