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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Exit Smutcoms, Enter Sweetcoms | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...evening outfits that could turn First Lady Nancy Reagan into a blue-jeans and turtleneck kind of girl, Bob Hope, 78, Bruce Jenner, 31, and former Football Great Merlin Olsen, 40, dragged out a parody version of Johnny Paycheck's Take This Job and Shove It. The trio were done up as the Mandrake Sisters (read Mandrel! Sisters) for Bob Hope's All-Star Comedy Look at the New Season-It's Still Free and Well Worth It, to be aired on NBC later this month. Though the three woeful crooners belted out the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 14, 1981 | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Bawlamer, in the state of Merlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: He Digs Downtown | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

White imagined Merlin as a wizard who lived backward, progressing from dotage to youth. It was yet another instance of literature anticipating life-as, for example, the life of Isaac Bashevis Singer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Province of Irony | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...MERLIN--the real central character of this film--Nicol Williamson thoroughly enjoys himself, savoring his every line with a sly insouciance. With an amazing array of inflections and twitches. Williamson makes his wizard a peculiar combination of magician, clown, and guardian angel. His consistent brilliance gives the film its only consistency...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Blood and Sex and Chivalry | 4/17/1981 | See Source »

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