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...Crawford and Charlie Chaplin continued to make pictures. Jerry Lewis, Doris Day and Elvis were starring in their two anodyne movies a year. Virtually all income came from box office receipts and showings on broadcast TV stations. There were no home computers, cable networks, videocassettes or DVDs. No four-letter word had been spoken, no adult body fully exposed, in a Hollywood film. Many films were still shot in black-and-white...
...watchdogs of those industries - the fox guarding the foxhole, essentially. But in 1968, Valenti went an audacious step further. Since his arrival in Hollywood, the liberalization of the screen had begun; American movies, long stuck in a bland adolescence, were suddenly and controversially open to "adult themes": nudity, four-letter words, explicit violence. Valenti headed off the puritan backlash. He persuaded Congress to eliminate the regulatory middle man and let Hollywood monitor its own content...
...followed her visit with greater interest, it seemed, than the still influential but greatly diminished John Smith. He wrote a letter to King James' wife, Queen Anne, urging her to receive Pocahontas in a manner befitting her status as Algonquian royalty. Uncomfortable months passed before Smith summoned the courage to call on Pocahontas. What followed was a heated, if not altogether tender, scene. Pocahontas turned her back on Smith, refusing for more than two hours to speak. When at last she did, she gave him a piece of her mind, telling Smith he had betrayed her people and upbraiding...
Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 took a bold step in his push for a revised academic calendar yesterday, demanding an audience with the University’s top governing board at its next scheduled meeting on April 30. Petersen’s letter to the members of the Harvard Corporation, which comprises Interim President Derek C. Bok and six Fellows, comes after the UC’s staging of a student referendum on calendar change. “As the FAS community considers the [calendar] proposal in the weeks and days ahead, the Corporation must...
...from Senators last week. The Senate Judiciary Committee has also written to Gonzales asking him to supplement his testimony "with answers to those questions for which you responded that you could not recall or did not know." The Committee chairman Patrick Leahy yesterday sent Gonzales a separate letter asking specifically for any e-mails Justice has that were written by senior White House adviser Karl Rove...