Emile de Antonio is a specialist at cinematic acupuncture. In such documentary essays as Point of Order (about the Army-McCarthy hearings) and In the Year of the Pig (a cynical chronology of the Viet Nam War), he needled some popular historic myths and a few political reputations. Now. in Millhouse, De Antonio has employed his usual technique of matching fragments of news film with quick on-camera interviews to produce an unflattering hut funny likeness of the 37th President (whose middle name is Milhous, not Millhouse, but let that go). To be sure, De...
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