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...addition, Maxine Hong Kingson received the distinguished contribution to American letters accolade while Barney Rosset took home the literarian award...
Obscene Directed by Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O'Connor; not rated; in limited release For publishing many of the past century's landmark works, including Howl, Naked Lunch, Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, Barney Rosset's Grove Press earned the U.S. government's highest tribute: prosecution for obscenity. This zippy documentary distills all the zest and pain of Rosset's career. Like the man and his imprint, it's sensational...
...sentence of five years." But as the razing of New York's Pennsylvania Station roused the city's citizenry to band together and forestall the destruction of other landmarks, so the Eros conviction belatedly galvanized the intellectual community. Hentoff, Ginsberg, Sloan Wilson, James Jones, I.F. Stone, Grove Press' Barney Rosset and ACLUers far and wide rose to protest the pornographer's incarceration. "These eventually succeeded in having my prison sentence reduced from five years to three," Ginzburg wrote, "and in gaining my parole after I had been locked up for eight months...
There is luck and there is fate. Marc Rosset of Switzerland was eliminated from the U.S. Open tennis tournament in the first round. Ranked 47th in the world, Rosset, 27, decided to stay on in New York for practice with the best players in the world. He and his coach canceled their plan to fly to Geneva--on Swissair 111. That was luck...
...sheer size of the stage and audience, which can tempt film stars, fearful of understatement, into almost operatic playing. That happened last week to Marisa Tomei, the street-corner ingenue of My Cousin Vinny, in a vaudeville-influenced staging of The Comedy of Errors. While Brazilian director Caca Rosset emphasizes the many shades of emotion within the text, Tomei, a gifted stage veteran, struck one note: screeching fury...