Jack Valenti, known within the PWNED circle for describing the VCR as the Boston strangler of the American film producer, died on Thursday of complications arising from an earlier stroke. The powerful lobbyist has inspired a cornucopia of obituaries--some sweet with praise and others sizzling with the flavor of long latent controversy.
Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America from 1966 to 2004, is also remembered for having fathered the modern movie ratings system, acting as an advisor to Lyndon Johnson, and for being an irrepressably grandiloquent speaker.
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Act Fred Van L. about Jack and Clint Eastwood. It's a good story about using racist "yellow, anti-Jap" rhetoic in the Sony/MPAA wars in Congress.
Makes Eastwood's Iwa Jima movies all the most int. and not many film critics, if any, have talked about Eastwood's congressional participation against the Japs in that war.
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