O'Brien, Glenn

Glenn O'Brien is primarily a writer of non-fiction articles, largely on the subjects of art, music and fashion. He's featured as "The Style Guy" at GQ magazine, and has published a book with that title. He has worked as an editor at a number of publications, and published the arts and literature magazine Bald Ego from 2003-2005. In his early years he was a member of Andy Warhol's Factory. He was a music critic for the Andy Warhol publication Interview in the punk era, with the column "Glenn O'Brien's Beat". In 1980-1981, he wrote the screenplay (which he also co-produced with Patrick Montgomery for a film to be called New York Beat, starring Jean Michel Basquiat (The film was only released in 2000, as "Downtown 81"), with post-production managed by O'Brien and Maripol. From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called "TV Party," which featured such then underground figures as David Byrne, Klaus Nomi, August Darnell, Fab 5 Freddy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Fekner, Amos Poe, and bands like Blondie, The Clash, DNA, and The Fleshtones.