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Party Clown Dan Glickman Helps Washington Celebrate Ratings’ 40th Birthday

8:20AM STV | It seems fitting that on a day when pigs and their lipstick are a subject of national discourse, MPAA boss Dan Glickman would add a bit of Hollywood colour with a gushing, glimmering tribute to his institution’s widely reviled ratings system. The infamous G, PG, R and the disused X celebrate their 40th anniversary Nov. 1, trailed by the PG-13 (est. 1984) and NC-17 (est. 1990) denotations; as Glickman reportedly told a gathering today in Washington, the ratings are “synonymous with the First Amendment … with political, artistic and creative expression in this country”: More »

State of Alabama to Gamble Pensions on Your Willingness to Pay $35 For a Movie

7:18AM Defamer Hollywood | Mere days after MPAA mascot Dan Glickman and pals around town swore up one side and down the other that movies are a relatively inexpensive, recession-proof industry, a group of brass-balled fate tempters — including “the Retirement Systems of Alabama pension fund” (we can’t make this up) — are betting that even $35 tickets wont scare off potential patrons of their planned luxury chain. More »

Movie Industry Mouthpieces Shockingly Confident in Movie Industry’s Recession Resiliency

2:00AM Defamer Hollywood | In an environment as volatile and prone to bullshit as the film business is, we tip our caps to the guileless souls who keep it real when things are looking down. Particularly people like MPAA president Dan Glickman, who, when asked by Time Magazine how the industry’s ‘08 crop of retreads, sequels and adaptations might weather the sluggish economy, steadfastly refused to toe the company line: “When times are bad, our business seems to buck the trend,” says Dan Glickman. … “The movies are great therapy. It’s a lot cheaper than a psychiatrist.” … More »

Dan Glickman: We Are Living In A Golden Age Of Hollywood Crap

4:43AM Defamer Hollywood | To celebrate a summer movie season that has delivered an unprecedented, soul-crushing string of record-breaking pirate-, ogre-, and superhero-related sequels, MPAA spirit squad captain Dan Glickman has grabbed his pom-poms and megaphone and headed for the Huffington Post to lead the world in a call-and-response “Holly!”…”WOOD!” cheer, careful not to tear anything amid his flurry of ecstatic scissor-kicks. Glickman reminds us that the while the MySpaces and the YouTubes may have their place in modern life, nothing beats a wholesome trip to the multiplex to watch horny college girls get eviscerated by sadistic hostel-keepers for old-fashioned community-building: Popular Internet sites may be the flashy new kids on the entertainment block, but moviehouses rank among the original social networks. As a kid in Kansas, the local cinema was a centre of the community. Still today, when we ask teens how they prefer to see movies, over and over they tell us in the theatre with friends (apparently, we parents are too embarrassing to be seen with in public). It makes sense to a generation that perpetually seeks out community – whether it be online gaming, video-sharing or social networking. More »