Timely Comparisons

At Thursday afternoon’s Cinerama Dome celebration of the memory of late Motion Picture Association of America icon Jack Valenti, Steven Bochco offered these words of tribute: “He was the human equivalent of the iPhone. He was a small, sleek package with irresistible features.” It’s probably best that Valenti himself didn’t live to see the iPhone era himself, as he likely would have seen the device as “the Son of Sam of intellectual property theft waiting to blast away the young lovers of copyright as they make out in the front of a parent’s Oldsmobile, an infernal machine that infuriatingly allows the brazen pirate to call up his friends and brag about how easy it is to steal food from the mouths of hard-working Hollywood professionals.” [LAT]