Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Award Central: Disney, Warners chiefs will receive lifetime kudos -- The Directors Guild of America has tapped Disney topper Robert Iger and Warner Bros. chief Barry Meyer as recipients of the DGA Honorary Life Member Award.
Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
A rather common theme around here is how often various industries resist the use of new technologies, fearing that those technologies will somehow harm or even destroy the industry. And yet, before too long, the opposite turns out to be true. Remember how Jack Valenti declared the VCR to be the "Boston Strangler" to the movie industry? Just a few years later, revenue from VCR rentals and...
Tools of Change for Publishing (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
via ustream.tv Google Senior Copyright Counsel Bill Patry, who will be one of our keynote speakers at TOC 2010, delivered a great lecture at Duke last month dissecting the...
Tar Heel Mania (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
This week I decided to change things up a bit. Instead of answering From The Rumble Seat’s questions directly, I will answer them with Freakazoid clips. 1. Alright fellas, this is your turn to apologize to the Boston College Eagles who went to Hell and back and have now arrived as the 3rd team for the [...]
Medialoper (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Today’s links of interest: Collecting Headlines Funnier Than ThisThe staff of The Onion devotes two days a week to creating headlines (then writing/assigning the associated stories). Would that major media put that much thought into the process! Exclusive: How I Unmasked @FakeAPStylebook (an Only-on-Twitter Story)Oddly, this wasn’t an unmasking we wanted, though it’s interesting....
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: 60 Minutes Puts Forth Laughable, Factually Incorrect MPAA Propaganda On Movie Piracy — 31 years ago, in 1978, the television program 60 Minutes put on an episode about the awful threat of “video piracy” to the movie industry. Featuring the MPAA’s Jack Valenti, the episode focused …
43(B)log (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Jack Valenti famously (well, for certain values of famously) analogized the VCR to the Boston Strangler, with the American film producer in the position of "the woman home alone." Feminist analysis of that very rich analogy aside (compare Christine Haight Farley on the feminine mystique of the brand ), Valenti was, to put it mildly, in error about the economic impact of the VCR. Turns out...
Truman's Take (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Will Hollywood say, "call me"? (Via Rex de City Paper) Rex was recently thumbing through his copy of the Hollywood Reporter and stumbled upon the news that Harold Ford Jr. was up for the job as head of the Motion Picture Association of America. For the last five years, former Kansas congressman and agriculture secretary Dan Glickman has held the post, and for nearly 40 years before that,...
Scrivener's Error (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
A particularly diverse set of link sausages. No guarantees on species... or planet of origin. Dance has nothing to fear but dance itself. And critics. And the public. And the financial downturn. And the music available for dance. And... If you really, really need any proof that the S&M dorks are in charge in publishing, ponder S&S's decision to sign up a YAish trilogy based on an iPhone
TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Former Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. has emerged as the early front-runner among studios to succeed Hollywood's top lobbyist Dan Glickman, who has made it official that he will depart as MPAA chairman and CEO when his contract expires in 10 months. With Glickman's contract expiring Sept. 1, he informed the MPAA board of his decision Monday after an interview with Politico published late Sunday. Although...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Hollywood's top lobbyist announces that he will step down next September, opening up one of Washington's most high-profile and coveted posts. For all the rumblings in Hollywood that Dan Glickman was miscast as the industry's top Washington lobbyist, the next head of the Motion Picture Assn. of America could well be closer to his technocrat mold than to the suave celebrity of the man who made the job...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The departure of MPAA head Dan Glickman, who succeeded Jack Valenti in 2004, "was not unexpected given the behind-the-scenes expressions of discontent with him in Hollywood. It now formally opens one of Washington's most-high profile and coveted lobbying posts."...
The Register (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Piracy-buster pursues 'extracurricular' interests The chairman and CEO of Motion Picture Association of America, Dan Glickman, will exit stage left when his contract ends this September.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Front Page: As Glickman exits, biz mulls org's future -- Months before Dan Glickman confirmed he would depart the Motion Picture Assn. of America, the guessing game over who might be his successor was in full swing.
The Hot Blog (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
MPAA chief Dan Glickman is heading out the door next year, having survived be the The Guy After Jack. (That's Jack Valenti, if you aren't playing inside baseball.) Dan is a good man and a smart man and not Jack. And that is the issue facing the major studios - they are, in fact, the MPAA - as they look to fill the slot again. The industry has been lacking for a mouthy spokesparent, a role Valenti...
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