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...decline, they’re fooling you, liberals warn. “Conservatives are using moral panic over girls ‘going wild’ and pre-marital sex to distract from the problems that young women actually need help with,” Jessica Valenti, executive editor of Feministing.com, wrote in an e-mail. “I’m similarly concerned that people are being duped into supporting regressive gender politics...
...These numbers require caveats. “It’s not as if once a poor couple marries, a money tree magically sprouts up in their backyard,” Valenti countered. And couples should separate if they have abusive relationships—those also harm children. Yet sociologists Paul Amato and Alan Booth note that two thirds of divorces do not stem from abusive relationships and the separations themselves traumatize children. This inquiry is not a search for the guilty, but an indicator that families are more than aesthetic arrangements...
Hoover, J. Edgar • obsession of with possible homosexuality of - well, everybody, really, but specifically, in this case, Jack Valenti...
Glickman: Before Jack Valenti, my predecessor, created this system, there were a hodgepodge of ratings boards, some governmental, some not. It created confusion for filmmakers and audiences and was basically tantamount to censorship, since these boards laid out certain behaviors that could and could not occur in a movie whatsoever. Jack determined that we needed to put some order and structure to this system to give parents some predictability. He felt, rightly so, that the prime purpose of ratings were to give parents information about movies...
With his silver hair, urbane style and tendency to quote the classics, Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for four decades, was an erudite icon. A tenacious athlete--he got his Taekwondo black belt at 78--Valenti was well suited to his role as Hollywood lobbyist-ambassador. One of Lyndon Johnson's closest aides, he was in the motorcade in which John F. Kennedy was killed and attended Johnson's sober swearing-in on Air Force One. As head of the MPAA from 1966 to 2004, he championed open markets for movies, fought digital piracy...