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REEL POLITIK The late MPAA chief Valenti kept his assessments of Hollywood close to the vest in the memoir he left behind
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Jack Valenti, the ex-MPAA czar who died in April, had ''a fascinating life,'' but his sometimes self-aggrandizing tome is only fitfully so. In This Time, This Place, he offers a rousing account of his WWII bombing missions, JFK's assassination (he was in the motorcade), and his three-year stint as one of LBJ's closest aides. But aside from niblets on the movie ratings system's creation and the Academy's 2003 DVD-screener debacle, his Hollywood chapters oddly lack insight: Liz Taylor is ''classy''; Bono is ''world-famous''; various lawyers, producers, and restaurants are ''first-class.'' To paraphrase Shakespeare (a Valenti idol), there's too much blather signifying nothing.
Posted Jun 01, 2007
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