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...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...
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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...
...newest power perk is to do away with an old status symbol, the Mussolini-size desk. Now the office at the top should not even look like an office but resemble a living room, complete with coffee tables, comfortable sofas and original art on the walls. Brandon Stoddard, president of ABC Motion Pictures, works behind a big marble table, while Designer Calvin Klein works in the modern mode of couches and comfort. Explains Office Designer Charles Winecoff: "Executives are getting away from the idea of a big, formal desk because most of their business really is conversation." For many businessmen...
...film is not entirely cliché-free. The character played by Mason is a fairly standard woman-doctor stereotype: pretty but prim, with deep-frozen attitudes toward men and a sharp tongue, at first, for the handsome radiologist (Michael Brandon) who wants to cuddle. Oddly, it is the teen-age romance that escapes stereotype: the scenes between Buffy and her boyfriend (Paul Clemens) are remarkably real and touching. In balance, the film is decent and compassionate, and truthful enough not to disguise too much the fact that truth can hurt terribly. -John Skow