{"id":6432,"date":"2012-02-23T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6432"},"modified":"2012-02-23T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:26:32","slug":"obit-watch-february-23-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6432","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: February 23, 2012."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/23\/arts\/barney-rosset-grove-press-publisher-dies-at-89.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;pagewanted=all\">Barney Rosset<\/a>, Grove Press publisher.<\/p>\n<p>Rosset brought the court cases that allowed \u201cLady Chatterley\u2019s Lover&#8221;, \u201cTropic of Cancer\u201d, and &#8220;Naked Lunch&#8221; to be published in the United States. He was also behind the distribution of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00007L4I8\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stainles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00007L4I8\">I Am Curious (Yellow)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=stainles-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00007L4I8\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>&#8221; (yet another court case) and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Titicut_Follies\">Titicut Follies<\/a>\u201d (yet another court case, and the most horrifying movie I&#8217;ve ever seen).<\/p>\n<p>Joe Bob Briggs&#8217;s write-up of &#8220;I Am Curious (Yellow)&#8221; in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0789313146\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stainles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0789313146\">Profoundly Erotic: Sexy Movies that Changed History<\/a><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=stainles-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0789313146\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> goes into more detail about Grove Press and some of the colorful incidents in Rosset&#8217;s history (the Cuban exile bombing, the unionization attempt, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/23\/arts\/barney-rosset-grove-press-publisher-dies-at-89.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;pagewanted=all\">Mr. Rosset turned down J. R. R. Tolkien\u2019s \u201cLord of the Rings,\u201d saying he \u201ccouldn\u2019t understand a word\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barney Rosset, Grove Press publisher. Rosset brought the court cases that allowed \u201cLady Chatterley\u2019s Lover&#8221;, \u201cTropic of Cancer\u201d, and &#8220;Naked Lunch&#8221; to be published in the United States. He was also behind the distribution of &#8220;I Am Curious (Yellow)&#8221; (yet another court case) and \u201cTiticut Follies\u201d (yet another court case, and the most horrifying movie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-clippings","category-movies","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6434,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions\/6434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}