Word: milkman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elderly gents meeting in a hospital as they await the death of their wives. The season premiere of Masterpiece Theatre can be poignant, yes, but just as often it's sly and funny, as Albert Finney, playing a randy former R.A.F. pilot, and Tom Courtenay, a fastidious retired milkman, are thrown into a sort of Odd Couple living arrangement. When Finney sets his sights on a chic divorce (Joanna Lumley, of Absolutely Fabulous), the results are delightfully unpredictable. And the richly nuanced performances are altogether superb...
...whole focus here is the story," says Redford, who grew up the son of a Los Angeles milkman in a neighborhood sandwiched by Beverly Hills and the barrio. Those clashing cultures, mixed with an interest in jazz and the Beat scene, infused in him a lifelong, insatiable desire for untold stories in alternative voices...
These thinnish, arc-less characterizations--shocking from the creator of Song of Solomon's galvanizing Milkman and Pilate, or Beloved's triumvirate of mother and daughters--detract from the novel as a whole. Again, though, this ailment of the text proved ironically rewarding for the Faneuil Hall audience, who could follow the movements of plot and character easily without the impediments of tortuous internal conflicts or irreducible psychic complexities...
...Ebbers has traveled a circuitous route to become the telecom industry's Southern-fried Paul Bunyan. After graduating from high school in Edmonton, Alta., Ebbers started out as a milkman but soon found that "delivering milk day to day in 30-below-zero weather isn't a real interesting thing to do with the rest of your life." A warmer clime beckoned in the form of Mississippi College, a Southern Baptist school in Clinton, Miss., where the Canadian won, of all things, a basketball scholarship and mostly rode the bench before graduating in 1967 with a bachelor's degree...
...British commercial for "milk in the mornings" shows a cheery milkman and his dancing milk bottles, intriguing because it is a cultural practice foreign to a modern American audience. A perfume ad also tries to be original, mocking commercials in general. "Why are you watching this? Go on, switch it off!" the screen dares, in between segments from a steamy sex scene...