In a Flea’s Navel

In a Flea’s Navel, by Don Freeman (A. S. Barnes, 229 pp., $8.95).

A generation ago John Crosby, who wrote television criticism for the New York Herald Tribune, quit—he could not, he said, countenance the thought of a career that required him to spend most of his working hours viewing television. When Wilfrid Sheed was invited to review movies for Esquire magazine, he confessed to a friend that he reviewed movies “in the same sense that pigeons review statues.” Don Freeman, whose base is the San Diego Union, and who is widely syndicated, is here with