“Possibly the thing one remembers most about Levin – and the most pertinent here – is that although he was certainly a cultured and often an interesting man, he was also possibly the single biggest pompous twit at large in Britain in the Seventies.” – ejh.
Proof thatwanting to punch smug, condescending critics is not a new invention… Bet a few children’s writers want to do this to Martin Amis right now.
The Thinker
March 14, 2011 at 5:51 pmBernard wasn’t the slightest pompous. Typical response from somebody who never actually met him. The pompous bit, if you want to call it that, was an act, he was performing for the camera and audience, drawing out the meat of the content, the person he was conferring with, interviewing. You have to give it some welly when onstage, you come across as boring and depressing if you don’t. It helped he really LOVED taking the pee out of those who WERE pompous! Personal experience, mate, crossed swords with him a few times, just for fun, he teaching me to debate.
Frank
April 26, 2011 at 6:33 amOr rather proof that the pen is mightier than the sword. Bernard Leslie was a bully and a fraud. He was not defending his wife’s ‘honour’, as he claimed (not that that would have excused his thuggish attack on a man half his size), he was trying to save his own blushes. He was one of the producers of his wife’s show, and he screwed up the sound.