Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie's most effective scenes, a confrontation between father and son (Michael O'Keefe) punches home the family's problems. As his wife, Lillian (Blythe Danner), and the rest of the family watches, Metchum reveals the ugliness of his desire, his will, his need to win when the refuses to admit defeat in a game of basketball against his son. After playing dirty in the first place, he taunts his son for being a sissy, a homosexual, and a girl, because the boy will not continue to keep playing until the father wins. Meechum shoves his wife to the ground...
...Miss Lillian, mother of Jimmy, Billy, Gloria and Ruth: "Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin...
...seriously. It presents the viewer with people he can take home with him, because they were always there. Lewis John Carlino has adapted Pat Conroy's novel without much cinematic grace, but the artlessness serves the subject and showcases three splendid performances: Blythe Banner as the willowy, resilient Lillian Meechum; Michael O'Keefe as 18-year-old Ben, his father's cross and joy; and, above all, Robert Duvall as the raging Bull-sacred monster, gung-ho dinosaur, one-man nuclear-family holocaust-who can do everything except express what he feels for the people he loves...
...broadcast at least the keynote, the nominations, the roll calls and the acceptance-but, while carrying the words, feel free to eye gabbling or dozing delegates. So, to get the anchorman's attention, politicians-including last week the Secretaries of State and Defense, as well as Rosalynn and Lillian Carter-found themselves climbing up to those glassy network booths. So much for those who think the podium is where the convention takes place. Arriving at Walter Cronkite's aerie, Vice President Walter Mondale was welcomed on the air and asked to wait a moment while CBS-following...
...gentleman who stooped to kiss the hand of Phyllis George Brown got a swift kick from behind and a lesson in Georgian etiquette. "You shouldn't kiss a married lady. She's married to the Governor of Kentucky," scolded Miss Lillian Carter. Thereafter, the President's mother stood close by fair Phyllis at a party hosted by the Browns aboard Publisher Malcolm Forbes' yacht. "I felt like my mother was there," giggled Phyllis. Among the weighty matters the two discussed were food and dieting. "We're shrimping it," said Phyllis, as she daintily split...