Hooray Jack Valenti is dead

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goodbye you stupid motherfucker

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/26/valenti.obit/index.html

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 26 April 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

His stance on copyright stuff was always short-sighted and now quaint, but why the bile? He wasn't all bad.

RIP.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

history of fucking over filmmakers

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't he have some weird right wing conections and questionable ethics regarding his rating system?

― darin, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

enshrined a ratings system that prefers excessive violence to sexuality

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

I mean there is a LONG list

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

He was LBJ's BFF.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

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.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

[url=[Removed Illegal Link] bullshit from Mr. Professional Censor for America[url]

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://mediamatters.org/items/200507180008

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

You are the classiest human being on Earth.

― HI DERE, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

(ps I am drinking so plz ignore me)

― HI DERE, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

"What is judgment?" he asked, rhetorically. "It's a little elf that lives between your belly and your brain...And if you're not careful, that little elf crawls out of your mouth when you yawn. Then it becomes 'bad judgment,' rampaging through your home, hunting for a broadband connection to download the valuable work of movie professionals. Once it's finished making a mockery of copyright laws, it absconds with your ability to maintain an erection. Only then does the critter return to its elf-hovel inside your body. Also, Lyndon Baines Johnson was a very great man."

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

item: jack valenti had archaic opinions

― félix pié, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

that elf-stuff is next level

― river wolf, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

Okay you are not convincing me that this dude was not insane and awesome.

Once it's finished making a mockery of copyright laws, it absconds with your ability to maintain an erection. = WAU

― HI DERE, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

I mean there is a LONG list

<adolescent girl mode> Jack Valenti like totally ruined my life! Because of those stupid ratings I can't see any of the movies the cool kids watch! I hope he dies! </adolescent girl mode>

― Aimless, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

fuck a greedy no-talent self-appointed censor, that's all I'm sayin.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

(altho yes that elf shit is hilarious couldn't resist posting that one)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

in person, i would speak sensitively about how i really did not agree with his positions regarding film, censorship, anything, but am always sad when people die and would never wish that on anyone.

on the internet, i am free to say 'good riddance to bad rubbish.'

tosser.

― Gukbe, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:22 (eighteen years ago)

Shakey, all I'm saying is that, if you could bring yourself to view his death with simple, quiet satisfaction and a subdued smile, rather than shouting 'hurray! the fucker's dead and I have a hard on,' it would be more becoming. He didn't brutally rape you with a broomstick, bro, he was just a dime-a-dozen asshole with a bit of power.

― Aimless, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

The ratings system has its flaws, but I shudder to think at some of the alternatives.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

Jack Valenti was featured "Ripley's Believe it or Not" getting his hair cut with fire.

― félix pié, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

this man was clearly awesome

― félix pié, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

stay strong shakey, these panty-waists gave me flack for talking shit about roger ebert!

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

is that fatass dead yet?

― Wrinklepaws, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

That elf quote comes from here, right? - http://defamer.com/hollywood/movies/jack-valenti-shares-his-thoughts-on-politics-elves-23348.php
The way I read that page, it looks like everything after "What is judgment?" he asked, rhetorically. "It's a little elf that lives between your belly and your brain." was just them joking.

― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 27 April 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

I always found it interesting that in the famous photo of LBJ taking the oath of office aboard Air Force One right after the JFK assasination, Valenti isn't looking at Johnson - he's staring straight into the camera.

http://www.jfklibrary.org/NR/rdonlyres/2F9718CD-0EAA-41D7-9EA5-223F3977F8EA/33412/365E71EC577E49FB8E5EB28F072A9F24.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 27 April 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

Great quote: "If LBJ dropped the H-bomb, Valenti would call it an urban renewal project."

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 27 April 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Did he say that? He can't be all bad.

― Eric H., Friday, 27 April 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

actaully he's looking at the woman who is speaking

― jeff, Friday, 27 April 2007 04:20 (eighteen years ago)

but yeah RIP, guy

out with the old, in with a new, likely worse version of the old

― jeff, Friday, 27 April 2007 04:21 (eighteen years ago)

Shakey, all I'm saying is that, if you could bring yourself to view his death with simple, quiet satisfaction and a subdued smile

why do i always get a mental image of the most punchable face in the world whenever you say anything

― strgn, Friday, 27 April 2007 06:56 (eighteen years ago)

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i think a new conspiracy theory was born today!

― latebloomer, Friday, 27 April 2007 07:14 (eighteen years ago)

Beats me. [looks smug]

― Aimless, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

RIAA President Cary Sherman to take helm at MPAA

― kenan, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

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
Worthy of the Yeats he would quote so lovingly.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

During the controversy surrounding the introduction of the household VCR, Rogers was involved in supporting the manufacturers of VCRs in court. His 1979 testimony in the case Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. noted that he did not object to home recording of his television programs, for instance, by families in order to watch together at a later time. This testimony contrasted with the views of others in the television industry who objected to home recording or believed that devices to facilitate it should be taxed or regulated.

The Supreme Court considered the testimony of Rogers in its decision that held that the Betamax video recorder did not infringe copyright. The Court stated that his views were a notable piece of evidence "that many [television] producers are willing to allow private time-shifting to continue;" it even quoted his testimony in a footnote:

Some public stations, as well as commercial stations, program the "Neighborhood" at hours when some children cannot use it ... I have always felt that with the advent of all of this new technology that allows people to tape the "Neighborhood" off-the-air, and I'm speaking for the "Neighborhood" because that's what I produce, that they then become much more active in the programming of their family's television life. Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My whole approach in broadcasting has always been "You are an important person just the way you are. You can make healthy decisions." Maybe I'm going on too long, but I just feel that anything that allows a person to be more active in the control of his or her life, in a healthy way, is important.

– Frederick Rogers, [5]

The Home Recording Rights Coalition later stated that Rogers was "one of the most prominent witnesses on this issue."

Rogers had been a supporter of VCR use since the very early days of the VCR. In his final week of episodes of the original run in 1976, Rogers used a U-Matic VCR to show scenes from past episodes, as a way to prepare viewers for repeats that would begin the following week.

― JW, Saturday, 28 April 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

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