Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 27, 1992                   TAG: 9203270368
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: E-11   EDITION: METRO 
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COMICS

Doctors had not been optimistic until recently about mobility in his lower arms.

Thompson got his arms caught in a piece of machinery in January. They were reattached and he left the hospital Feb. 24.

Tomorrow is another day, but TV is another matter. "Scarlett," the miniseries sequel to "Gone With The Wind," may not look much like "Scarlett," the book.

Producers and writers for the TV project, to begin shooting this fall, plan major changes in author Alexandra Ripley's story.

Scarlett will spend less time in Ireland, more time in Dixie, and the final installment will perhaps send her and Rhett Butler - business rivals by now - off to San Francisco and maybe another sequel.

"We want to bring it back to America 'cause we hope there will be a sequel," said Robert Halmi, the producer who paid a record $9 million for rights to Ripley's book.

The miniseries also plans to give Scarlett yet another husband, who appears in neither book - a nasty Anglo-Irish lord whom she eventually kills.

Jacksonville, Fla., taxi driver Louise Hartley had to think fast when a dispatcher told her by telephone her passenger might be using her cab as a getaway car.

Instead of driving to the destination, Hartley drove the passenger to a police station where another cabbie yanked him from the car and he was arrested.

"I told him I had an emergency and that another cab would meet us at the police station and carry him on to where he was going," said Hartley, a 49-year-old mother of six. "He bought it."

David Serfass, 18, was arrested Wednesday on charges of burglarizing a house and trying to move the goods in Hartley's cab.