Jack Valenti

Jack Valenti wiki (died in 2007)

"Jack Valenti, who became a confidant of President Lyndon B. Johnson and then a Hollywood institution, leading the Motion Picture Association of America and devising a voluntary film-rating system that gave new meaning to letters like G, R and X, died" in 2007.

"In 1966 Mr. Valenti took his talents for personal politicking — and lionizing his bosses — to Hollywood, heeding the request of Lew Wasserman and Arthur Krim, then chairmen of MCA/Universal and United Artists respectively, that he take over the Motion Picture Association. “If Hollywood is Mount Olympus,” Mr. Valenti once said of his new liege, “Lew Wasserman is Zeus.” He became the organization’s third president."

After retiring from the MPAA in 2004, Valenti became the first President of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.


 * Director, Riggs Bank N.A.
 * Aspen Institute / Aspen Strategy Group
 * Other Leadership: American Foundation for AIDS Research
 * Trustee, Save the Children USA
 * Jefferson Awards for Public Service Selectors, American Institute for Public Service

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