Valenti's long goodbye begins

James Bates chats up 81-year-old Jack Valenti on the eve of meetings with studio execs to consider his eventual retirement and successor as head of the MPAA. No date has been set, but Bates declaims in the L.A. Times, "Valenti's long-running show has entered its final act."

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