Word: mcmillans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From there comes "Get Back to the Country," a foot-stomping ripsnorter from the first snaps of Rufus Thibodeaux's Cajun fiddle to the jangling bounce of Terry McMillan's Jew's harp. Both musically and metaphorically, "Get-Back to the Country" provides the strength to carry the album, both signalling Young's new direction and showing the best example...
...Family Honor, also on ABC, is a more ambitious undertaking. Kenneth McMillan and Eli Wallach co-star as former boyhood pals who are now the patriarchs of families lined up on different sides of the law. The location filming in New York City lends the true grit of authenticity, but the show is out of balance. Too much time is spent on McMillan's police family (among them a granddaughter who has just joined the force), while Wallach and his criminal clan are tossed off in cut-rate TV cliches...
...giant walrus-like creature that rules the universe while floating inside a liquid cage. The Harkonnens are the comic villains of the piece. These red-haired nasties with a taste for drinking human blood and baroquely torturing farm animals are led by the pustulous, airborne Baron Vladimir (Kenneth McMillan) and his aide-de-camp Feyd (the rock star Sting), in gold-leaf bathing suit resplendent. The Guild Spokesman, an imperial messenger, has a bald head cracked on one side and oozing like a soft-boiled egg. Then there are the 1,000-ft. worms of Arrakis, the universe...
...added that McMillan does not, as a rule, like food places, but maintained that Tommy's was in no danger of being evicted...
...film's central relationship while maintaining a strong, easy and persuasively naturalistic stride. With fine impartiality, Patrick has provided good roles for Burt Young and Tony Musante among the Mafiosi, for Jack Kehoe and Geraldine Page as a crooked cop and his adoring mom, and for Kenneth McMillan, playing an aging safecracker with a sad personal life, who provides a note of weary realism. Under Stuart Rosenberg's intelligently permissive direction, they provide the film with a rich variety of eccentric life...