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"Obscene" Documentary of Barney Rosset

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[BeatBuddy]

There's a full article about Barney Rosset in the December 8, 2008 issue of Newsweek.

Why do so many champions of free speech come from the sleaze sector? Rosset, Larry Flynt, Lenny Bruce and more... They have done more for our freedoms than all of the evangelical Bible-thumpers combined.

[lark23]

Barney Rosset is a hero for battling against our insipid, puritanical American culture.

[BeatBuddy]

Didn't like it, even though it's an innovative adaptation of Shakespeare. The best part was the theme song, Slim Whitman's big hit, Cattle Call.

[BeatBuddy]

Question Gerald Ford's judgment. He is the philistine of philistines.

[danceofthegoblins]

What did you think of "My Own Private Idaho" if you saw it?

[BeatBuddy]

Yes, a riveting movie and critically acclaimed. It takes place in more recent times than City of Night, which takes place in the early 60s. It goes to show how much the problem of runaways has exacerbated over the years, and the kids today are dealing in far more dangerous traffic. The 60s didn't have so many potentially lethal drugs and AIDS to deal with. What hasn't changed is that a lot of runaways are gay; they can't deal with their particular home situations; too much tension.

[BeatBuddy]

That's hard to deal with. Charles Manson was inspired by The Book of Revelation and Jeffrey Dahmer was an avid Bible reader. When I was in San Francisco, there was a furor in the local news over a lecturer giving lessons on how to kill people you don't like.

[danceofthegoblins]

Then again re: "the book made me do it": I guess one could say the movie or the news story or whatever made them do whatever and that's bunk.

I'm talking more about outright instructing someone on how to do such odious acts.

[danceofthegoblins]

Have you seen Larry Clark's movie "Kids"? I haven't but have it in queue. Just wondering how it compares to "City of Night"?....

He did "Bully" based on a true case that I read the book of and it was an excellent interpretation of the book, to the point of using dialogue from it verbatim. It's rare that a film is as good as the book, typing of which I have another thread to find you on....;)

[danceofthegoblins]

I literally got the creeps standing there loooking at those books: curiosity well sated LOL.

[danceofthegoblins]

I was once browsing out of curiosity in a "spy shop" and they had a book section that contained books with titles like "How to Dispose of a Body" and "How To Kill Someone and Get Away With it" etc. I recall there being some legal case with a murderer who used one of those books that was made into a movie but I don't recall if the press got shut down (I'm all for free speech but there are some maniacs out there and I think you could draw the line with stuff like that...