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...same "R" given the gore and genitalia of Basic Instinct. Malle had no choice -- many theaters won't show NC-17 movies. "In no way was the scene pornographic," he insisted. "In Europe we don't have this problem with nudity." Explaining the double standard, MPAA head Jack Valenti said, "Violence comes in many different forms. With sex there are only so many positions...
...These systems are used for banks orconvenience stores. Putting [them] into books israre," said Shawn M. Valenti, president of a Lynn,Mass. security equipment company...
...distinguished foreign films as Pedro Almodovar's Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and Peter Greenaway's The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, critics and directors petitioned the M.P.A.A. to amend its system and classify certain serious fare with an A (adult) rating. Publicly, M.P.A.A. president Jack Valenti opposed any alteration, while in private he helped hammer out the compromise. This week the first NC-17 film will be released: Philip Kaufman's love quadrangle Henry & June...
...just cultural pride but also megabucks: by 1998 European broadcasters will purchase an estimated $4 billion in programs. U.S. exporters, who have come to rely on foreign sales of their shows, assailed the new rule. "The European Community today took a step backward in time," complained Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. "They said no to competition and viewer choice and yes to trade barriers." In Congress, some even called for retaliatory measures...
...kiss-and-tell memoir. Psychoanalyze-and-tell better describes Goodwin's finished product. The most provocative chapter in the book, entitled, "Descent," describes Lyndon Johnson's progressively paranoid behavior following the 1964 election. This chapter has drawn the most attention--and fire--to the book. Former Johnson aide Jack Valenti and former Secretary of State Dean Rusk have both bitterly attacked Goodwin's portrayal of the president. They accuse Goodwin of misunderstanding Johnson's eccentricities and misusing psychiatric terms that he knows little about...