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...Your article about TV critic Jack O'Brian [Nov. 20] was a perfect description of him. It reminded me of the time in 1956 when 1 worked at a gambling casino, in Nassau, Bahamas, where he was a guest. He was so uncouth and ill-mannered I had all I could do to restrain myself from doing him bodily injury...
...need critics of Jack O'Brian's caliber who see through the hokum and drivel of what passes for TV entertainment today...
...guiding precepts. "Let the laughs go and play the people," he says. When he makes a mistake, he is the first to acknowledge it. "Mike is the best director I've ever worked with, and that includes Gielgud and Peter Brook," says Brian Bedford of The Knack. "Mike has the patience to wait until the part slowly emerges. I'm sure he does guide you, but so subtly you think everything comes from within yourself...
...Brian's effect on television is best measured, perhaps, by the fact that few of his detractors are willing to declare publicly against him. Almost without exception, network executives and press agents fulminate from behind the refuge of anonymity. Their barbs fly toward well-insulated ears. There are six TV sets in O'Brian's six-room apartment on Manhattan's 73rd Street, and they command his" undivided attention at least six hours out of every...
After 14 years, that big, multiple eye has finally begun to pall. "Who the hell ever said there should be TV 24 hours a day?" O'Brian asked last week. He is thinking seriously of switching off all six sets, he said, in favor of seeking broader battleground with a column conditionally titled "Jack O'Brian at Large." In its way, that ambition constitutes Jack O'Brian's most devastating TV criticism...