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This Is...Brenda

#"When My Dreamboat Comes Home" – (Dave Franklin, Cliff Friend)


A Clergyman's Daughter

Brenda Salkeld, a gym teacher at St Felix School and the daughter of a clergyman, was to remain a friend and regular correspondent about his work for many years, although she rejected his proposal of marriage.

Brenda Chenowith

Brenda becomes pregnant again and this time the baby is seemingly healthy, until the doctors begin to worry that the baby may develop Down syndrome or spina bifida.

Brenda Jefferson Foster

Brenda Jefferson Foster (born 1955 - May 17, 2010 Lake Providence, Louisiana) was a witness for the prosecution in the 2008-2009 trials of her older siblings Betty Jefferson and Mose Jefferson, Betty Jefferson's daughter Angela Coleman, and Mose Jefferson's companion former City Councilwoman Renée Gill Pratt.

Brenda Reid

Brenda's son (Mark) Cory Rooney is a songwriter and producer, known for creating hits for many famous artists.

Brenda Way

Brenda Way is the Artistic Director/Founder of ODC/Dance (Oberlin Dance Company)ODC has since become the premier contemporary dance company of the West Coast, performing for more than 50,000 people a year.

Brenda Webster

Brenda Webster was born in New York City in 1936, the daughter of abstract expressionist painter Ethel Schwabacher and the prominent entertainment lawyer Wolf Schwabacher.

Bryan Russell

He was previously married to singer/songwriter Brenda Russell, with whom he formed the musical duo Brian & Brenda in the 1970s.

Cake Girls

Mary & Brenda Maher appeared on the Food Network challenge Disney Princess cake.

Camden Crescent, Bath

In July 1951 Number 1 Camden Crescent was the scene of an abduction when John Straffen took five-year-old Brenda Goddard and later killed her.

Carmel Cryan

In June 2008, she was cast as Brenda Boyle in EastEnders a love interest for Charlie Slater, Cryan signed a six-month contract in August 2008 and she and the character of Charlie Slater (actor Derek Martin) took their relationship to the next level.

David Wynn Miller

In 2005, Montclair, New Jersey resident Brenda Rickard was arrested and charged with orchestrating a $30 million mortgage scam: "Rickard, who claimed her name is :Brenda :Rickard, is a follower of :Judge: David-Wynn: Miller, who gives seminars around the country and advocates speaking in the 'true language,' which features odd punctuation and syntax. 'I have no problem with the complaint against me as long as it’s in the truthful language,' Rickard told the judge."

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

On their 18th anniversary, Helen awakens to find all of her belongings packed in a U-Haul truck with Charles kicking her out of the house in favor of Brenda (Lisa Marcos), his young mistress, the mother of his two children.

Eve Whittle

Eve Whittle (born August 5, 1967) is an American actress and child psychologist best known for her TV role of the earnest and enthusiastic airport supervisor/technician Brenda Blue on the PBS Kids CGI animated cartoon series Jay Jay the Jet Plane.

George Gordon-Lennox

He married Nancy Brenda Darell and they went on together to have two sons (the eldest was Major-General Bernard Gordon-Lennox).

Goodbye, Columbus

One summer, Neil meets and falls for Brenda Patimkin, a student at Radcliffe College who is from a wealthy family living in the affluent suburb of Short Hills.

Harvard Square

The 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus takes place in Harvard Square near the film's conclusion, after the Richard Benjamin character learns that his girlfriend, Brenda Potimkin, an undergraduate at Radcliffe College played by Katharine Ross, left her diaphragm in the top drawer of her bureau at home for her mother to discover.

Has a Good Home

The title of the song is also a reference to "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan", a song by Dntel and Ben Gibbard that was the seed of the pair's collaboration as The Postal Service.

Heading South

Ellen, a professor of French literature at Wellesley College in Boston, Brenda, a stay-at-home wife from Savannah, Georgia; and Sue, a factory worker from Quebec, Canada, feel lonely and ignored by middle-aged men back at home.

Holly Cruikshank

She is known for her role as Brenda in the Billy Joel/Twyla Tharp musical Movin' Out, and has also danced lead roles in two other Tony-award winning Broadway musicals: Fosse and Contact.

Julia Tobin

Julia Tobin (born 1955 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English actress from Newcastle upon Tyne, and is best known for playing Brenda Hope in the comedy drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Joan of Arc in the music video for "Maid of Orleans" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

Kristal Uzelac

Uzelac was born on June 27, 1986 to parents Donnie and Brenda.

Linda Blair

She appeared in the 2009 documentary Confessions of a Teenage Vigilante, discussing her role as Brenda in Savage Streets (1984).

Miss Understood

Her film and television appearances include The Brenda and Glennda Show; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; HBO's Dragtime; TLC's Faking It; Wigstock, The Movie; Project Runway; and Sex and the City.

MS-13

On July 13, 2003, Brenda Paz, a 17-year-old former MS member turned informant was found stabbed on the banks of the Shenandoah River in Virginia.

Murder of Brenda Dawn Hirons

Brenda Dawn Hirons was murdered in the village of Bretforton in the English county of Worcestershire on 5 January 1976.

Nate Fisher

Brenda later becomes pregnant again, but she and Nate disagree on whether or not she should have amniocentesis to determine if the baby has Down's syndrome or spina bifida after blood tests show the baby may have special needs.

Patrice Holloway

Patrice also co-wrote 'You've Made Me So Very Happy', which in 1969 rose to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 when the band Blood Sweat & Tears covered it, two years after it was co-written and originally recorded by her sister Brenda.

Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004

On 8 November 2004, the Island Council named Christian's sister, Brenda, interim Mayor pending elections scheduled for 15 December 2004.

Restaurant Makeover

It is hosted by chefs Brad Long, Rene Chauvin, Lynn Crawford, Massimo Capra, Corbin Tomaszeski, David Adjey, and Susur Lee along with designers Robin De Groot, Meredith Heron, Cherie Nicole Stinson, Jessica Cotton, Glen Peloso, Brenda Bent, Cheryl Torrenueva, Lisa North, and Jonathan Furlong, who perform renovation makeovers on restaurants desiring transformation.

Sami Jo

She worked with producer Jim Ed Norman (best known for his work with Anne Murray) on a remake of Brenda Lee's "Emotions", but Warner Brothers recalled the single soon after sending promo singles to radio stations.

Sarabande Books

Notable authors published by Sarabande Books include Ralph Angel, Mark Jarman, Cleopatra Mathis, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Gerald Stern, Sallie Bingham, Alice Fulton, Cate Marvin, Rick Barot, Deborah Tall, Ann Townsend, James Kimbrell, Alyce Miller, Joan Silber, Brian Leung, Lia Purpura, and Brenda Miller.

Superluv!

A yellow Aston Martin car strolls around the school and Brenda is seen in the shotgun, visibly miserable.

She rubs a few abrasions on her arm, and tells him she hates her father. To comfort her, Switch gives Brenda a necklace he made himself.

Tarzan II

Glenn Close and Lance Henriksen reprise their roles as Kala and Kerchak from the first movie; Harrison Chad, Brenda Grate, and Harrison Fahn are the new voices for Young Tarzan, Terk, and Tantor.

Tarzan's two best friends, Terk and Tantor (voiced by Brenda Grate and Harrison Fahn) come looking for him, but Tarzan does not want to return home with them.

The Devil in Me

#"It's Just Me Feeling Good" (Brenda Sutton, Michael B. Sutton, Pam Sawyer)

The Goon Show running jokes

Bluebottle:"Cor, dolly mixture - thinks - with these-type sweets I could influence certain girls at playtime - that Brenda Pugh might be another Rita Hayworth."

The Museum of the American Cocktail

The current Board of Directors include Dale DeGroff (president), Jill DeGroff (vice president), Robert Hess (secretary), Ted Haigh (curator; aka “Dr. Cocktail”), Phil Greene (treasurer), Tim McNally, Brenda Maitland, Ti Martin, Chris McMillian, and Laura McMillian.

The Wandas

" New Wave Blues is full of sweet harmonies and music that is unburdened with extravagance" - indie.mp3.co.uk "This is some of the best pop I've heard this year" - Mary Leary; San Diego Entertainer Magazine.

The Wind Will Carry Us

After seeing the film in the first days of 2000 Michael Atkinson said, "This is the best film we'll see this year," and stranded on his word.

This is...

In 2003, publisher Rizzoli began reissuing some of the titles, although not in the original publication order.

This is Cape Canaveral (1963) (later republished as This is Cape Kennedy) (to be republished in June 2009 under the name This is The Way to The Moon)

Velma Kelly

Women who have portrayed Velma on the Broadway stage include: Chita Rivera, Terra C. MacLeod, Amra-Faye Wright, Nancy Hess, Deidre Goodwin, Brenda Braxton, Caroline O'Connor, Roxana Carrasco, Bebe Neuwirth, Reva Rice, Donna Marie Asbury, Lori Ellis, Stephanie Brown, Holly Shepard, Pia Douwes and Ute Lemper.

Wicked Appetite

Carl the monkey was introduced in Fearless Fourteen humping Brenda's hair, and was featured in Plum Spooky.


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