Kondracke’s ‘Saving Milly’ Airs Sunday

The story of Mort Kondracke, Roll Call’s executive editor and a FNC pundit, and his wife’s struggle with Parkinson’s will air as a movie on Sunday night on CBS. The movie, “Saving Milly,” is based on Kondracke’s 2001 frank and heart-breaking memoir of the same name.

Kondracke says actress Madeleine Stowe, who plays his wife of 35 years, was fantastic: she “just is Milly. She’s got the verve and the strength and assertiveness of the old Milly. She really studied hard to duplicate the physical symptoms.”

In an AP preview of Sunday’s showing, Kondracke said, “If you write a book you can only dream that it’s going to be made into a movie…. The idea that this can happen is enormously gratifying and I think they’ve done a fantastic job with it.”

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