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Film Lobbyist Jack Valenti Dies at 85
AP ^ | April 26, 2007

Posted on 04/26/2007 4:22:37 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jack Valenti, the former White House aide and film industry lobbyist who instituted the modern movie ratings system and guided Hollywood from the censorship era to the digital age, died Thursday. He was 85. Valenti had a stroke in March and was hospitalized for several weeks at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center in Baltimore.

He died of complications of the stroke at his Washington, D.C., home, said Seth Oster of the Motion Picture Association of America.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: film; hollywood; jackvalenti; jfk; lbj; movies; valenti
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RIP. Another member of the JFK-LBJ time passing.
1 posted on 04/26/2007 4:22:38 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Also in one of the most famous photos of the 20th century (to the left of the guy in the bow tie).


2 posted on 04/26/2007 4:25:12 PM PDT by IndyTiger
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Would a "R" movie in Valenti's original movie rating code be a "G" today?

RIP, Jack.

3 posted on 04/26/2007 4:27:36 PM PDT by llevrok (Do cats have belly buttons?)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

RIP.


4 posted on 04/26/2007 4:28:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Would you vote for President a guy who married his cousin? Me, neither. Accept no RINOs. Fred in '08)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Although a Democrat, Valenti was a STRONG advocate of the FairTax.

His influence will be missed.


5 posted on 04/26/2007 4:30:30 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Dick Bachert

Valenti was a decent guy. Also btw a war hero in WWII. RIP.


6 posted on 04/26/2007 4:34:57 PM PDT by Argus
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Another member of the JFK-LBJ time passing.

Ahh, yes. "The Best and the Brightest" who thought they knew it all.

They'll be remembered for really screwing this country up. Big time.

7 posted on 04/26/2007 4:40:40 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81

And for comparing home video taping to the Boston Strangler:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070115-8616.html


8 posted on 04/26/2007 4:48:57 PM PDT by abt87 (Liberals aren't stupid...they can still beat Koko the monkey in chess)
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Wow. He was a Luddite, to boot.


9 posted on 04/26/2007 5:00:48 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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Another member of the JFK-LBJ time passing. Ahh, yes. "The Best and the Brightest" who thought they knew it all.They'll be remembered for really screwing this country up. Big time.

Although LBJ and Valenti may be guilty as charged I don't think that JFK is.

10 posted on 04/26/2007 5:00:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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He had quite a career. It was always interesting to hear him speak about the Johnson years. He served back at a time when even many Democrats (but not Ramsey Clark!) loved and supported America. Sadly, it is Johnson’s domestic legacy that continues to hurt society today.


11 posted on 04/26/2007 5:31:34 PM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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Although LBJ and Valenti may be guilty as charged I don't think that JFK is.

I'll give you that. If only he had known what Ted would become.

12 posted on 04/26/2007 5:33:02 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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Good riddance. Anyone who hailed from the Hollywood culture and didn’t ever reform (unlike Reagan). Who cares if he was some kind of a veteran. Everyone of that age was.
13 posted on 04/26/2007 5:36:51 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: BearWash

I agree on the good riddance. This idiot degraded the movie industry with the bogus ratings system, wanted to ban the VCR, and basically wanted to restrict the internet with the DMCA.


14 posted on 04/26/2007 6:11:48 PM PDT by D-Chivas
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Always a vital and interested man..full of life he seemed.

RIP, Mr.Valenti..


15 posted on 04/26/2007 6:15:48 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet & FredFan)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I have to chime in on the good riddance. Yuk. This guy was one of the worst creeps of the 20th century. The Stalinist idea that some kind of “official rating system,” for any art form, is in any sense morally acceptable, is, well, simply disgusting. It would have been better for America if he had, say, lived in East Germany during the Cold War, where he would have been very happy being a government censor.


16 posted on 04/26/2007 7:04:48 PM PDT by omnivore
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I guess I won’t say good riddance, seems pretty harsh to say to the dead. Instead, I will say I always thought he was a toady to the Hollywood lefty elite, who thought their $hit didn’t stink. He became a flag waver for the nutjobs out there and a gasbag and I will not miss it when the MSM would look to him to comment on what Hollywood thought about some political topic.


17 posted on 04/26/2007 7:13:29 PM PDT by irish guard
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I’m sorry, but as far as I’m concerned, he won’t be missed.


18 posted on 04/26/2007 7:34:16 PM PDT by zeugma (MS Vista has detected your mouse has moved, Cancel or Allow?)
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To: omnivore

> The Stalinist idea that some kind of “official rating system,” for any art form, is in any sense morally acceptable, is, well, simply disgusting.

Would bringing back the Hays code make you happier?


19 posted on 04/26/2007 8:30:09 PM PDT by Revenge of Sith
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To: BearWash

What are you talking about? What did he need to reform from?


20 posted on 04/30/2007 8:18:33 AM PDT by Borges
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