Word: valenti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party, attired in a trendy grey dinner jacket, blue-grey evening shirt and black evening slippers, a hush settled over the elegant living room. Johnson greeted the diners, who included Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Designer Mollie Parnis, Playwright Marc Connelly, ex-White House Aide Jack Valenti (now the $125,000-a-year president of Hollywood's Motion Picture Association). Soon Johnson fell into conversation with Williams and two other guests. He reminisced for a bit about the Old West and Artist Frederic Remington, one of his favorites. Then he spoke of the vast relief...
Well aware that parental concern about galloping pornography had powerful support in Washington, the Motion Picture Association of America last October announced a new voluntary system of rating pictures-the first in Hollywood history. "We don't want to legally pass judgment on art," explained M.P.A.A. President Jack Valenti. "What we're trying to do is educate the parents." All Mom and Dad have to learn is four letters: G, M, R and X. G is the code's symbol for suggested for general audiences; M: suggested for mature audiences; R: restricted-persons under 16 not admitted...
After a fast canvass of exhibitors, Valenti countered last week by quoting theater owners who told him privately that Reade is "irrational and wrong." Said Valenti, "Even if some other small exhibitors hold out, we feel satisfied with the 80% to 85% that we estimate will voluntarily support us." With that majority demanding proof of age at the box office, youth will now be restricted to four choices: G: go to a Walter Reade Theater; M: mark time until you grow up; R: riot in front of the box office; or X: wait until the movie makes the Late Show...
...question: Will the film moguls tamper with the artistic integrity of their product to avoid a classification that will shut out the under-16 market? Next year will tell. At least the producer will have the option of appealing to a board headed by Motion Picture Association president Jack Valenti. Mr. Valenti's credentials for making moral judgements aren't bad; he left the Johnson Administration two and a half years...
...these, however, are petty considerations compared to the sheer feat of performing that much Bach--any musician's ordeal by combat--on one program. Almost consistently competent on a professional level, the combined efforts of Buswell and Valenti frequently achieved real excitement as well. Hedonist or intellectual, that is as much as anyone...