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Jack Valenti

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Jack Joseph Valenti (September 5, 1921 – April 26, 2007) was a longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America. [1]

81 relations: A Clockwork Orange (film), Air Force One, Air Medal, Albert Richard Thomas, Alfalfa Club, American Advertising Federation, Antidote Films, Arlington National Cemetery, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Betamax, Boston Strangler, Bronze Medallion (New York City award), Charles A. Halleck, Competition law, Conoco, Copyright, Copyright infringement, Dallas, Dan Glickman, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Distinguished Flying Cross (United States), Edward W. Scott, Eric Johnston, Everett Dirksen, First lieutenant, Freakazoid!, Gerald Ford, Harvard University, Hollywood, Home video, Houston, Houston Chronicle, Humble Oil, Injunction, Internet, Jackie (2016 film), Jeff Levy-Hinte, JFK (film), Joan Graves, John F. Kennedy, Legion of Honour, Lew Wasserman, Lobbying, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Scorsese, Max Casella, Member of Congress, Midnight Cowboy, Motion Picture Association of America, Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, ..., MSNBC, National Italian American Foundation, National Journal, North American B-25 Mitchell, Oliver Stone, Oval Office, President of the United States, Retirement, Screener (promotional), Sony, Steven Spielberg, Stroke, Texas, The Daily Cougar, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, The New York Times, United States, United States Army Air Forces, United States Congress, United States House of Representatives, United States Secretary of Agriculture, United States Senate, Universal Pictures, University of Houston, Videocassette recorder, Washington, D.C., White House, William F. Patry, World War II, X rating, Yale School of Management. Expand index (31 more) »

A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name.

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Air Force One

Air Force One is the official air traffic control call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States.

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Air Medal

The Air Medal is a military decoration of the United States Armed Forces.

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Albert Richard Thomas

Albert Richard Thomas (April 12, 1898 – February 15, 1966) was a Democratic Congressman from Houston, Texas, for 29 years and was responsible for bringing the Johnson Space Center to Houston.

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Alfalfa Club

The Alfalfa Club is a social club that exists only to hold an annual black tie banquet on the last Saturday of January at the Capital Hilton in Washington D.C., with an after-party at a local restaurant.

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American Advertising Federation

The American Advertising Federation (AAF), headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the oldest national advertising trade association in the United States.

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Antidote Films

Antidote Films, also known as Antidote International Films, Inc., is an independent film production company founded by producer Jeff Levy-Hinte based in the Hudson Square neighborhood of New York City.

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Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars.

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Assassination of John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.

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Betamax

Betamax (also called Beta, as in its logo) is a consumer-level analog-recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video.

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Boston Strangler

The Boston Strangler is a name given to the murderer (or murderers) of 13 women in the Boston area, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, in the early 1960s.

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Bronze Medallion (New York City award)

The Bronze Medallion is the highest award conferred upon civilians by New York City.

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Charles A. Halleck

Charles Abraham Halleck (August 22, 1900 – March 3, 1986) was an American politician.

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Competition law

Competition law is a law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies.

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Conoco

Conoco Inc. was an American oil company founded in 1875 as the Continental Oil and Transportation Company.

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Copyright

Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.

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Copyright infringement

Copyright infringement is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission, infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Dan Glickman

Daniel Robert Glickman (born November 24, 1944) is an American politician, lawyer, lobbyist, and nonprofit leader.

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)

The Distinguished Flying Cross is a military decoration awarded to any officer or enlisted member of the United States Armed Forces who distinguishes himself or herself in support of operations by "heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight, subsequent to November 11, 1918.".

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Edward W. Scott

Edward W. "Ed" Scott Jr. is an American businessman, philanthropist, and former senior United States government official.

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Eric Johnston

Eric Allen Johnston (December 21, 1896 – August 22, 1963) was a business owner, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, a Republican Party activist, president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and a U.S. government special projects administrator and envoy for both Democratic and Republican administrations.

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Everett Dirksen

Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was an American politician of the Republican Party.

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First lieutenant

First lieutenant is a commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces and, in some forces, an appointment.

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Freakazoid!

Freakazoid! is an American animated television series created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini and developed by Tom Ruegger for the Kids' WB programming block of The WB.

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Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Home video

Home video is pre-recorded video media that is either sold, rented or streamed for home entertainment.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Humble Oil

Humble Oil and Refining Co. was founded in 1911 in Humble, Texas.

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Injunction

An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts.

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Jackie (2016 film)

Jackie is a 2016 biographical drama film directed by Pablo Larraín and written by Noah Oppenheim.

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Jeff Levy-Hinte

Jeff Levy-Hinte (a.k.a. Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte) is an American film producer.

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JFK (film)

JFK is a 1991 American conspiracy-thriller film directed by Oliver Stone.

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Joan Graves

Joan Eldridge Graves is the head of the Classification and Rating Administration for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and was appointed to that position by Jack Valenti.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Lew Wasserman

Lewis Robert Wasserman (March 22, 1913 – June 3, 2002) was an American talent agent and studio executive, sometimes credited with creating and later taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades.

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Lobbying

Lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials in their daily life, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.

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Max Casella

Max Casella (born Maximilian Deitch; June 6, 1967) is an American actor.

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Member of Congress

A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature.

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Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy.

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Motion Picture Association of America

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is an American trade association representing the six major film studios of Hollywood.

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Motion Picture Association of America film rating system

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) film rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences based on its content.

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MSNBC

MSNBC is an American news cable and satellite television network that provides news coverage and political commentary from NBC News on current events.

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National Italian American Foundation

The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational foundation that promotes Italian American culture and heritage.

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National Journal

National Journal is a research and advisory services company based in Washington, D.C. offering services in government affairs, advocacy communications and policy brands research for government and business leaders.

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North American B-25 Mitchell

The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American twin-engine, medium bomber manufactured by North American Aviation (NAA).

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Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American writer and filmmaker.

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Oval Office

The Oval Office is the working office space of the President of the United States located in the West Wing of the White House, Washington, DC.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Retirement

Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life.

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Screener (promotional)

A screener (SCR) is an advance screening of a film or television series sent to critics, awards voters, video stores (for their manager and employees), and other film industry professionals, including producers and distributors.

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Sony

is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Daily Cougar

The Cougar is a weekly newspaper run entirely by students at the University of Houston.

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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (or simply the Global Fund) is an international financing organization that aims to "ttract and disburse additional resources to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria." A public-private partnership, the organization maintains its secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Secretary of Agriculture

The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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University of Houston

The University of Houston (UH) is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Houston System.

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Videocassette recorder

A videocassette recorder, VCR, or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the recording.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.

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William F. Patry

William F. Patry (born January 1, 1950 in Niskayuna, New York) is an American lawyer specializing in copyright law.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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X rating

In some countries, X is or has been a motion picture rating reserved for the most explicit films.

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Yale School of Management

The Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM) is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti

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