Valenti, Jack

John Gardner : uncommon American( Visual )

2 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Chronicles the career of John Gardner, an "establishment" man who took on the establishment to build a better America. Called the "ultimate builder of ideas, people and causes," Gardner founded Common Cause and played an instrumental role in a vast array of enterprises: campaign finance reform, education reform, civil rights enforcement, Medicare, public television, volunteer action and community renewal. The film also tells the story of the unique relationship between President Lyndon Johnson, practical politician and Gardner, idea man, after his appointment in 1965 as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

A personal close-up of President Johnson by Jack Valenti( Recording )

2 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Valenti, former top aid to President Johnson, discusses Johnson's complex personality and the major achievements of his Presidency

Ten heroes and two heroines by Jack Valenti( Book )

2 editions published in 1957 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A very human President by Jack Valenti( Book )

7 editions published between 1975 and 1976 in English and Undetermined and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Speak up with confidence( Visual )

3 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Provides instruction for effective public speaking on television. Describes the nature of the television medium and presents techniques for effectively delivering statements to the camera and handling news interviews, presentations, press conferences, and talk-show appearances

Speak up with confidence( Visual )

2 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Describes basic elements of style in public speaking. Defines "style" in terms of its effect on an audience and gives techniques for building and maintaining rapport with the audience during a speech

Guns don't kill people--writers do( Visual )

2 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Call us irresponsible...everyone else does. Every time a misfit in touch with his anger goes postal or lights a cigarette, a congressional counterpart pins it on Hollywood. Even some of our colleagues cry "mea culpa!" Do writers have any moral or ethical responsibility for what they write? Does the industry need a code of conduct, or is this just another attack on the First Amendment?

The voluntary movie rating system : how it began, its purpose, the public reaction by Jack Valenti( Book )

3 editions published between 1987 and 1996 in English and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This time, this place : my life in war, the White House, and Hollywood by Jack Valenti( Book )

7 editions published between 2007 and 2013 in English and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew fifty-one combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 attack bomber with the 12th Air Force based in Italy. In the 1960s, with the nation reeling from the assassination of a beloved president and becoming embroiled in a far different kind of war in Vietnam, he was in that fateful Dallas motorcade in 1963, flew back to Washington with the new president, and for three years worked in the inner circle of the White House as special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson. Then, for the next thirty-eight years, with American society and popular culture undergoing a revolutionary transformation, Valenti was the public face of Hollywood in his capacity as head of the Motion Picture Association of America. Been there, done that, indeed. Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Valenti has led several lives, any one of which could have provided ample material for an unforgettable memoir. As it is, This Time, This Place is the gripping story of a man who saw the terrible face of war while fighting with skill and bravery for his country; who was in the room, listening, participating, and remembering, as political decisions were made that would benefit or devastate countless lives in this country and on the other side of the world; and who championed the interest of the vast and globally influential movie industry with tenacity and vision. The list of boldface names whom Valenti knew and with whom he worked is as varied as it is astonishing in number. Aside from LBJ, there were Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Robert McNamara, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julia Roberts, Cary Grant, Lew Wasserman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, Warren Beatty, and Bill Clinton, to begin a very long list. The life of a man who earned both the Distinguished Flying Cross and his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is inherently intriguing, but Valenti's warm, sometimes rueful, always engaging account gives this memoir a depth of humanity and a taste of life's unpredictability that will linger long after you turn the final page. From growing up poor but largely oblivious to that fact in a hardscrabble neighborhood of Greek and Italian immigrants in Houston to rising to the highest summits both of national government and Hollywood, This Time, This Place is a candid and clear-eyed reflection of the joys and sorrows, ambitions and disappointments, of a life fully recognizable in its extraordinary variety. It is also a sweeping and important historical record, written by a brilliantly successful man who helped to shape politics and entertainment in the second half of the twentieth century, and who always found himself in the center of the current storm. From the Hardcover edition

Cinema Houston : from Nickelodeon to Megaplex by David Welling( Book )

2 editions published between 2007 and 2011 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide