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Using a sophisticated statistical analysis technique called arithmetic, Bloomberg calculates 1939’s Gone With the Wind is the top-grossing movie of all time.

In recent years, the 1997 slapstick comedy romantic epic Titanic has been widely thought of as Hollywood’s biggest all-time earner.

But apparently it recently occurred to someone at Bloomberg that 1997 dollars were worth considerably less than 1939 dollars. A little bit of adjustment for inflation and, voila, Titanic drops from first-place to sixth-place on the all-time box office list.

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1) Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris continues at Alliance Theatre.

2) Candler Park hosts day 2 of the Sweetwater 420 Fest.

3) The Fox Theatre screens Gone with the Wind for a 70th anniversary celebration.

4) Hermon Hitson plays Smith’s Olde Bar.

5) Durham Stories: Not Hell but You Can See It from Here continues at Composition Gallery.

(Photo by Greg Mooney)

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1) Kingsized and El Vez perform at Variety Playhouse.

2) Oakhurst’s Harmony Park hosts BBQ, Blues and Bluegrass Festival.

3) Gone with the Wind, Dr. Zhivago and 2001: A Space Odyssey are playing at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre with scores by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for Turner Classic Movie Night.

4) Taking Off: The Atlanta Printmakers Studio opens at the Art Institute of Atlanta.

5) Fishhawk, To Whom and Almost Heroes perform at Vinyl.

(Photo by David Stuart)

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ZEBRA WATCH ‘08: Metro Atlanta’s zebra infestation continues as workers extract one that was sneaked into an Emory at Oxford building Wednesday.

MAKING THE BANDIT: Local media eager to apply catchy monikers to bank robbers after the success of the Barbie Bandits story have found a new popular pilferer: the Grandpa Bandit.

LIVE GRENADE: Discovered in a trash can outside a convenience store in Floyd County.

CLAYTON SCHOOL BOARD: Offers the corrective superintendent job to a candidate who already withdrew himself from consideration.

ILL WIND: British first-time playwright gets railed for her musical version of Gone With the Wind.

QB OR NOT QB? Not, according to SI’s Don Banks (thanks, Falcoholic), despite the unavailability of Jake Long.

HAWKS: This isn’t going well.

ON A LOITER NOTE: News sites and blogs worldwide are falling all over themselves to cover the bum bot story. Here’s an AP video of the viral vigilante in action. In other loitering news, American cities have begun installing Kids Be Gone teen-loitering repellents, which emit an unbearable noise audible only to teens and young adults.

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