Gone With the Wind

Matt Roush says...

Sundays with Carol Burnett: One of the many highlights of the classic sketch comedy The Carol Burnett Show (1967-78) was its lampooning of Hollywood classics. Over four Sundays, the legendary Carol Burnett (now 91) joins host Dave Karger for screenings of movies that were memorably spoofed on the show, followed by their parodies—none more hilarious than the 1976 “Went with the Wind” send-up of 1939’s epic Gone with the Wind (8/7c), with Burnett as a hysterical Starlett O’Hara to Harvey Korman’s swaggering Capt. Ratt Butler. The sight gag of Starlett wearing a dress (designed by Bob Mackie) made from curtains—with the rod still attached!—was a meme before memes were a thing, and the dress was donated to the National Museum of American History in 2009. (Movies in weeks to come include Born to Be Bad and Torch Song on Dec 8, The Heiress and A Stolen Life on Dec. 15, and Mildred Pierce and Double Indemnity on Dec. 29.)

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