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...history of Big Entertainment suggests it is quite comfortable waging war from behind the curve. In 1982, Jack Valenti, then as now the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, went before Congress to decry the good old VCR. "The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology," Valenti said, "is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone." (In the end, the VCR worked out pretty well for everyone concerned, with the possible exception of exhibitors...
...moves on, pitching him a story she wants to do for NBC News about Johnson's special assistant. "We want to follow Jack Valenti all over with whatever he does and take pictures," she says, trying to make it sound fun. With her faint Midwestern accent it sounds like she's delivering a line in a musical. "No," Johnson comes back quickly. "You'll have more jealousy here than I can deal with now." She tries again for several more minutes, but Johnson shoots her down...
...moves on, pitching him a story she wants to do for NBC News about Johnson's special assistant. "We want to follow Jack Valenti all over with whatever he does and take pictures," she says, trying to make it sound fun. With her faint Midwestern accent it sounds like she's delivering a line in a musical. "No," Johnson comes back quickly. "You'll have more jealousy here than I can deal with now." She tries again for several more minutes, but Johnson shoots her down...
...advertising explanations of why any of its films received PG-13, R or NC-17 ratings--for instance, for violence, sex, profanity or drug use--and that its ABC-TV network would no longer accept ads for R-rated movies during prime time before 9 p.m. Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, admitted to the committee that the FTC report identified some practices--like focus groups for 10-year-olds--that should end. But he insists that the ratings system adopted by the movie industry in 1968 is working as intended. "Eighty-one percent of parents...
...JACK VALENTI Gov't report says movie bosses market to kids. Their no-show on Capitol Hill doesn't help...