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Daniel R. Glickman is a man of many talents. A former Congressman from Kansas, Director of the IOP, Secretary of Agriculture and currently the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) president, this guy has dealt with everything from grains to George Clooney. FM sat down with this multi-talented man to ask him some questions about his unusual life...
...When times are bad, our business seems to buck the trend," says Dan Glickman, president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). "The movies are great therapy. It's a lot cheaper than a psychiatrist...
...average of less than $7 a ticket, compared to $23 for a Major League Baseball game and more than $50 for a concert, "movies are still a good value," says Glickman. "There's still this great desire to go on dates and have a social experience and a communal experience...
That was the deal enshrined by the Freedom to Farm law of 1996--except the part about no more subsidies. "The regular order took over," recalled Dan Glickman, a former Kansas Congressman who was President Clinton's Agriculture Secretary. "There was a lot of hefty intellectual discussion about weaning farmers off the dole, but of course, it didn't happen." Instead, GOP leaders agreed the next farm bill would wean farmers off subsidies but only after they received seven years of guaranteed transitional payments--even when prices were high. Farmers also received more generous crop-insurance subsidies so that Congress...
According to Winsten, some Harvard professors began a dialogue with current MPAA CEO and Chairman Daniel R. Glickman before he left his previous post as director of the Institute of Politics...