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Jack Valenti
Jack Joseph Valenti was an American political advisor and lobbyist who served as a Special Assistant to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was also the longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38-year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world.
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Born 5 September 1921 · Died 26 April 2007 · Q1380767
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A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.
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2007· 6 entries
“I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.”
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“In a political struggle, never get personal — else the dagger digs too deep.”
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“No one today knows what is indecent.”
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“We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home.”
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“A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.”
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2004· 2 entries
Narrowly avoiding a massive and embarrassing antitrust lawsuit against the MPAA
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Valenti became the first President of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, an organization founded by philanthropists Edward W
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2003· 1 entry
Valenti found himself at the center of the so-called screener debate, as the MPAA barred studios and many independent producers from sending screener copies of their films to critics and voters in various awards shows
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2002· 1 entry
The University of Houston bestowed Valenti an honorary doctorate
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1998· 1 entry
Valenti lobbied for the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, arguing that copyright infringement via the Internet would severely damage the record and film industries
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1995· 2 entries
“A Plea For Keeping Alive the U.S. Film Industry’s Competitive Energy”
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Valenti voiced himself in the Freakazoid
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1990· 1 entry
The trademarked "adults only" NC-17 rating was introduced as a replacement for the non-trademarked X-rating
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1985· 1 entry
Jack Valenti received the French Légion d'Honneur
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1984· 1 entry
To provide a greater range of distinction for audiences and was first proposed by Steven Spielberg
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1982· 1 entry
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone
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1974· 1 entry
“Comments on the Cable television industry, in testimony to Congress (June 1974); quoted in "What Jack Valenti Did for Hollywood" by Richard Corliss in TIME magazine (27 April 2007)”
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1969· 1 entry
Jack Valenti received the Bronze Medallion, New York City's highest civilian honor
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1968· 1 entry
Valenti developed the MPAA film rating system, which initially comprised four distinct ratings: G, M, R and X
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1966· 2 entries
Valenti, at the insistence of Universal Studios chief Lew Wasserman and with Johnson's consent, resigned his White House commission and became president of the Motion Picture Association of America
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (1966–2004).
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1965· 3 entries
“I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.”
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“Address before the Advertising Federation of America convention, Boston, Massachusetts (28 June 1965); published in the Congressional Record (7 July 1965) Vol. 111, Appendix, p. A3583”
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Valenti said: "I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president
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1964· 2 entries
The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an investigation concerning whether Valenti had a sexual relationship with a male photographer, at a time when homosexual acts were still illegal in many parts of the United
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Johnson gave Valenti the responsibility to handle relations with the Republican Congressional leadership, particularly Gerald Ford and Charles A
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1963· 1 entry
Johnson's November 22, 1963, visit to Dallas, Texas, and Valenti was in the presidential motorcade.
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1960· 1 entry
Valenti's firm assisted in the Kennedy-Johnson presidential campaign
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1956· 1 entry
Valenti met then Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B
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1952· 1 entry
And a partner named Weldon Weekley founded the advertising agency Weekley & Valenti, with oil company Conoco as its first client
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1948· 1 entry
Valenti worked for Humble Oil in its advertising department, where he helped the company's Texas gas stations jump from fifth to first in sales through a "cleanest restrooms" campaign
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1921· 2 entries
In Houston, the son of Italian immigrants
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Born 1921-09-05.
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