Word: brandon
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Wackford Squeers, the scurvy headmaster from Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, has trouble with enrollment-his students keep starving on him. He could use Clark Brandon, who plays high school apprentice to Barnard Hughes' Mr. Merlin (CBS, Wednesdays at 8 p.m.). Brandon is a comely lad-in the androgynous, Los Angelized tradition of former teen throbs like David Cassidy-but his character lacks character. Squeers' spartan regimen and unspared rod could provide...
...Muffle Brandon, the tall, elegant social secretary, seeks to give each formal dinner "a personality and an ethos of its own." Serious preparations begin at least six weeks in advance. The guest list, which Nancy Reagan has decreed must be kept to no more than 100 to encourage an atmosphere of comfortable intimacy, should be balanced as delicately as a political ticket in Chicago. It is a mix of officials from the two governments, members of Congress, business and cultural eminences, a couple of journalists, one or two party contributors, some personal friends of the Reagans. Says Brandon: "There...
...gremlins are still at work. One of Sadat's daughters, Mrs. Mahmud Osman, is taken ill. Brandon, in the calligrapher's office, rearranges the seating plan. Shortly after 7 p.m. the arrivals commence at the White House diplomatic entrance on the south side. Either Brandon or her assistant is there to greet them when they enter the mansion...
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...teacher having an affair with one of his students (Bo Derek, who is splendid-looking, of course, but whose blankness of eye and manner makes one long to see her admission test). When his wife (Shirley MacLaine) discovers this lapse, she immediately takes up with a young carpenter (Michael Brandon), whose brain has been dulled by an overdose of Consciousness III. Soon they all edgily repair to a country house. There they scandalize the married couple's daughter, who drops by with some problems of her own, and Derek's father...