R.I.P. Jack Valenti   By leboheme  From his Washington Post
obit:  "Of course, Valenti never just talked. In his many public
utterances, he orated and declaimed, grandly and voluminously,
as if addressing the Roman Senate about the urgency of
conquering Gaul. Some people found such verbiage pompous and
smarmy, particularly since Valenti, who wrote all his own
speeches, was usually talking about something relatively
mundane, such as DVD piracy or runaway movie-production costs.
Such lofty language would have been ridiculous -- if it weren't
such a pleasure to hear a man so out of step with ordinary
speechifying."  Tags: Truman Says