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Google Network Shows Hollywood Trap: Between Fiddlers and Franklin

Art Brodsky | Posted 07.04.2012 | Technology
Read More: Mpaa, Google, Chris Dodd, Jack Valenti, Internet, High Speed Internet, Google Fiber, Motion Picture Association of America, Technology News
Art Brodsky

The entertainment industry should no longer fear technological change. It should no longer cling to a precarious balance on the roof of an industrial structure constructed long ago. It's time to look on technology as an opportunity, and to conquer its fear of the unknown.

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Berlin Film Festival: The World in Upheaval

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Asghar Farhadi, Jafar Panahi, Cinema for Peace, Media, Nadir and Simin, Prince Charles, Phyllida Lloyd, Harmony, Margaret Thatcher, Julie Bergman Sender, Sean Penn, Egypt, Berlin Film Festival, True Grit, State Funding, UK Film Council, Coen Brothers, Berlinale, Jack Valenti, Entertainment News
Vivian Norris

One way for us to travel and experience what our fellow human beings are going through, is through cinema. And the Berlinale film highlights these kinds of films better than the Oscars or Golden Globes.

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Hoover, Valenti, Gaydar, and DADT

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: PBS Frontline, Cross-Dressing, Dadt, J Edgar Hoover FBI, Senator Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, Jack Valenti, Clyde Tolson.HUAC, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

Most normal people today really don't care in which direction a person's sexual compass points, except as the subject of gossip and the gossip goes both ways, so to speak.


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Jack Valenti: FBI Investigated Top LBJ Aide's Sexuality

Washington Post | Joe Stephens | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Jack Valenti, Hoover, Politics News

When Beltway insider Jack Valenti died two years ago at age 85, he was playing the role of intermediary between Washington and Hollywood as the theatr...

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Goodbye Good Ole Boys, Hello Hollywood? How Will Obama Handle the Oil Industry?

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Entertainment, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Kennedy, American, Pipelines, Iraq, Obama, Texas, Cold War, Hollywood, Export, Iran, Exxon, Dan Glickman, Venezuela, Oil, Sudan, Will Smith, Nigeria, Spielberg, Jack Valenti, Rusia, Business News
Vivian Norris

The Republicans will always back a pro-oil immediate future, until their own voters, and the lobbyists filling their coffers with dollars, stop supporting them.

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