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Jack Valenti, 85, best known as having created the movie ratings system but also worked in the LBJ administration, has died.
I like this fun fact:
Valenti was also smitten by Johnson secretary Mary Margaret Wiley. After spotting her coming off an airplane with Johnson in Houston, Valenti asked an aide to call the Rice Hotel and order the staff to rearrange the seating so she would be placed next to him.
When the couple married in 1962, Wiley's father was ill, so Johnson gave the bride away. The couple had three children: Courtenay Lynda, John Lyndon and Alexandra Alice.
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What a sweetheart:
Testimony from the first witness, Dorothy Melvin, settled into a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" description of Spector, with the defendant described as a compelling and romantic suitor and a genius, who changed into something else. Prosecutors said the other side was "a raging maniac."
"Phil is a really brilliant and charming man, and you really enjoy him when he’s in his charming mode. Then when he’s drinking," Melvin testified today. "He snaps. He turns on a dime and becomes a lunatic."
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