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...CAROL JO WESTCOAT
What Birmingham did get was the complete cooperation of Marquand's longtime friends and agents, Carol Brandt and her late husband Carl of the literary agency Brandt & Brandt. With a few revisions the book could have been called Three Friends, or even Carol and John. When the Brandts enter Marquand's life, the writing suddenly gets some real texture. We know about weather, clothing, whether drinks were drunk or ice cream spoons licked. We also find out what pleased Marquand and what annoyed him, which situations he could face and which ones...
...Carol Brandt, with whom Marquand had a long, open love affair, seems to have been the only woman who could cope with him. She also seems to have given him a measure of contentment. Yet despite Birmingham's efforts to make her the book's heroine, she comes off as an odd mixture of brazenness and complacency-arranging an abortion for one of John's other girls, supervising travel plans for him and his infuriated second wife...
...Ballad of Cable Hogue. Writer-director Sam Peckinpah's best film, a bawdy tragicomedy which epitomizes his oldtimer's vision of the diminishing West and the downfall of the American individualists it bred. Lyrical. With Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. PUBLIX CINEMA. Ballad...
...reruns. Sometimes the networks use it to examine talent on approval, testing prospects for possible recall during the dark days of winter. The newest and brightest experiment of this type is CBS's Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show, a slick, soulful variety series now subbing for the Carol Burnett Show...