69 years ago today Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer for Gone With the Wind (src). Two years later that popular southern novel would land on the nations screens and become a gargantuan and enduring screen epic. If you adjust for inflation, as you should, it's still the top grossing movie ever --nearly half a billion ahead of Titanic which is most frequently referred to as the biggest grossing film.
This year March, another civil war novel won the same prize. Will this one make it to the movies in so short a time? It springs from the Little Women mythos and tells about the father's side of things. You know the guy. He's the one Marmee and her girls are always yammering on about despite his absence. I hear Winona Ryder is looking for work. Noni needs a comeback in the worst way and what better way to do it than returning to 1994 (sort of) which you'll have to agree was her peak: she was a big star. She had just been nominated for an Academy Award. She followed that up with two majorly winning lead roles and a second consecutive nomination followed (it was for the wrong film but whatever). Maybe she could play Marmee this time?tags: Winona Ryder, movies, celebrities, civil war, books, Pulitzer, box office
