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...Even Valenti's critics would acknowledge the ratings system worked well for a while. X, belying its suggestion of toxicity, simply meant films for adults only. Most, like Medium Cool, were serious, intense, mature social studies; and one, Midnight Cowboy, won the Oscar for the best picture of 1969. But two things changed. The MPAA had copyrighted its other classification, but not the X, which was soon appropriated by the early-'70s wave of porno features. Studios quickly became reluctant to release X-rated films, and an important avenue for frank artistic initiative was closed off. The director was still...
...later years, Valenti and the MPAA fought movie piracy, using some bizarre strategies, like denying DVD screeners of year-end Oscar hopefuls to movie critics. Piracy saps plenty from the producers' coffers, but they're still making zillions: from a sturdy domestic box office, from an increasing domination of worldwide exhibition and from somehow persuading consumers to pay for what they once saw for free (in the burgeoning market of old TV shows on DVD). With Valenti as their spokesman - and with his successor, Dan Glickman - they've been doing fine...
...stretch for battery. The brothers aren't speaking. "Why would I have to be concerned about my brother's thoughts or feelings?" asks Roger during a Mayweather workout in Las Vegas. He is wearing a T shirt with Sesame Street characters, except Bert is chugging a 40-oz. beer, Oscar is flipping the bird and Big Bird is smoking. The shirt reads: DONTMESSWITME STREET...
...catch him. Mayweather zips around the ring like a mosquito, throwing quick punches and darting backward before his opponent can counter. De La Hoya's trainer, Freddie Roach, is teaching his fighter to attack when Mayweather crosses his feet, which puts him slightly off balance. "Floyd is so fast, Oscar has to react to it right away," Roach says...
Playing a misfit pianist in Shine may have won him an Oscar, but look at the prize Rush won for playing a villain...