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  • 'Saving Milly': An Aloof Treatment Of a Family's Loss (Tom Shales of Wash Post rips the movie)

    03/13/2005 11:25:13 PM PST · by Cableguy · 50 replies · 1,324+ views
    Wash Post ^ | 3/12/05 | Tom Shales
    No doubt Morton Kondracke poured his heart into "Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease," a book about the long, lingering illness and eventual tragic death of his wife, Millicent. But as translated into a CBS movie, "Saving Milly," the story becomes strangely dry and emotionless, even when the symptoms worsen and the heroine struggles bravely to survive -- standard cues, in this kind of film, for the audience to haul out the hankies. The movie, at 9 tomorrow night on Channel 9, stars Madeleine Stowe as the flinty and defiant Milly and Bruce Greenwood, outfitted with the proper pair...
  • Kondracke's Life on Screen in CBS Movie (Mort's 'Saving Milly' now a movie with Madeleine Stowe)

    03/11/2005 11:10:39 AM PST · by Cableguy · 34 replies · 1,590+ views
    AP Wire ^ | 3/10/05 | DAVID BAUDER
    There's something strange about seeing a 35-year marriage — your own 35-year marriage — condensed into a 90-minute movie for the television screen. Political pundit Morton Kondracke will experience that on Sunday when CBS televises "Saving Milly," a movie based on the struggles of Kondracke and his wife with her Parkinson's disease. Kondracke, executive editor of Roll Call and a frequent commentator on Fox News Channel, was an ambitious young journalist in Chicago when he met liberal activist Milly Martinez. It wasn't the type of woman he envisioned falling in love with, but he did. Their life together changed in...