TV Review: Mailer and Laing Seen in Channel 13 Talk
John J. O'Connor's New York Times review of a Patrick Watson-hosted program on which Mailer and R.D. Laing discussed schizophrenia; Mailer says he would choose to be reborn in the womb of 'a black woman of marvelous grace and strength.'
“TV Review: Mailer and Laing Seen in Channel 13 Talk,” an article by John J. O’Connor in the New York Times (10 November 1972), reviews a program hosted by Patrick Watson on which Mailer and the psychiatrist R. D. Laing discussed schizophrenia and other matters. O’Connor judged the show a “disaster,” but the quotations he gives suggest otherwise — Mailer says that if he could be born again he would choose to spend nine months in the womb of “a black woman of marvelous grace and strength.”