Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, January 20, 1992 TAG: 9201200003
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN
Tom Selleck said fans shouldn't count on him portraying Rhett Butler in the miniseries based on the sequel to "Gone With the Wind."Selleck said he has been approached by the producers, but "I wouldn't commit without seeing a script, and it would have to be an excellent script, because the part is loaded with pitfalls."
CBS is planning an eight-hour miniseries based on Alexandra Ripley's "Scarlett," which continued the saga of Scarlett O'Hara and her true love Butler, played by Clark Gable in the movie "Gone With the Wind."
"No one is a bigger fan of Clark Gable than I am, but I'm not Gable, and to do the sequel to `Gone With the Wind' would not interest me unless I thought I could bring something new and interesting to the story," Selleck said in the Jan. 25 issue of TV Guide.
Writer Shelby Foote says Cybill Shepherd makes a good drab kidnapper in the movie based on his book, "Memphis."
"She didn't emphasize her good looks," he told The Commercial Appeal in an interview published Sunday.
Shepherd purchased screen rights to the book and stars in the movie, to be shown today at a benefit for the National Civil Rights Museum. The movie premieres Jan. 27 on cable's Turner Network Television.
Shepherd, a Memphis native who starred in the television series "Moonlighting," plays a racist prostitute who helps kidnap a wealthy black businessman's grandson in 1957.
Sonny Bono says his campaign for the U.S. Senate is harder than he expected.
"Here I am, in the race, about 50 years older than I was three months ago," he said. "I was somewhat naive - I didn't understand the scope of the game, the depth of the game."
"When you're standing on the outside, you view it like Jimmy Stewart did in `Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' " Bono said.
The 56-year-old Bono, mayor of Palm Springs since 1988, is running for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Alan Cranston.
First lady Barbara Bush was in High Point, N.C., on Friday shopping for furniture for the Bushes' home in Kennebunkport, Maine, High Point television station WGHP reported. Most of the furniture on the first floor was damaged or destroyed during a storm last fall.