RIP Jack Valenti
RIP Jack Valenti
#1RIP Jack Valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 6:58pmhttp://www.fresnobee.com/384/story/44178.html
cheezedoodle
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/15/05
#2re: RIP Jack Valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 7:02pmI just hate those long drawn out articles.
#2re: RIP Jack Valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 7:06pm
LOL
It just happened (or was reported) - articles will no doubt be numerous soon enough
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#3re: RIP Jack Valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 7:08pm
I have to say, I will always think of Jack Valenti as a reactionary obstructionist. Many of you young uns probably aren't even AWARE of how videotape recorders frightened the film industry so much when they were new that Valenti and crew tried to get them banned, lest the film industry suffer. He thought of the machines in the way file sharing programs are considered by the RIAA today. He actually wanted VCR manufacturers to pay royalties to the studios.
He was also SO threatened by the success of Deep Throat that he put together the nefarious MPAA ratings board to make sure that mainstream Hollywood films from the '70s on would not have the sort of mature sexual frankness that would inevitably followed in the wake of porno chic.
But as Bette Davis is alleged to have said upon being told of the passing of Joan Crawford: "I was always told not to say anything of the dead if you can't say anything nice. She's dead. How nice."
#4re: RIP Jack Valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 7:13pm
I never said he was well liked :)
In fact - I remember him speaking at my college and he was acerbic as hell.
But there goes one of my theories that Namo was Valenti 
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#5re: RIP Jack Valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 7:15pmI'm still heeeeeeeeeerrrrre!
#6rip jack valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 7:16pmoh please, like death would even slow namo down.
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#7rip jack valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 7:25pmHeaven (or Hell)'s got great wifi
cheezedoodle
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#8rip jack valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 7:28pm
Here is the MPAA page with the announcement. President of the Academy for 38 years! Long time.
Valenti - 2007
#9rip jack valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 7:29pmI agree, Namo. And I wasn't even alive for most of his "work."
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#10rip jack valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 7:32pmCan't say I'm a big fan of Valenti... so I'll gladly add a RIP.
#11rip jack valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 7:45pmI was not a fan of his either. I saw "This is film is not yet rated" again a few weeks ago and it brought home the point how much of an obstructionist he really was, and Dan Glickman seems to be heading in that same direction. Anyway, RIP to him an condolences to his family.
#12rip jack valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 11:12pmI want to hear Namo do that line in a flawless post-stroke Bette Davis imitation.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#13rip jack valenti
Posted: 4/26/07 at 11:16pmIt's damn good, PalJoey. I'll record it for the next edition of BWW Idol.
#14rip jack valenti
Posted: 4/27/07 at 1:56amWell...the man was dedicated, I'll give him that.
--Aristotle
#15rip jack valenti
Posted: 4/27/07 at 1:22pm
Check out this movie. You'll look at Jack and the MPAA from a different viewpoint. Great Documentary by the way!
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