by Mark Silva
Wanted: New lobbyist for Hollywood.
Pays $1 million or more a year.
Dan Glickman, the former agriculture secretary and congressman from Kansas who has served as chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America since 2004, plans to step down when his contract expires next year, the association says.
Representing movie studios may be one of the more glamorous jobs in Washington, where tax and distribution issues consume the daytime debate and rubbing elbows with lawmakers and celebrities carries the night. Plus Glickman, 64, was paid more than $1.2 million in 2007, the latest year for which tax documents are available.
"It's more nuts and bolts and hard work than it's glamour," Glickman told the Associated Press today. "To be honest with you, people have come up to me since I've gotten the job and said, 'You have the greatest job in the world.'''
The more business-like Glickman carred on the role of a flamboyant Jack Valenti, who held the post from 1966. Valenti passed away in 2007, leaving a star on Hollwyood's Walk of Fame.
"I think they think that Angelina Jolie goes home with me every night. Which she doesn't, by the way,'' Glickman says. "I mean, I would like it if she did.''
The AP provided the material for this report.
Comments
Not mentioned in the above article, because it might lead people to believe that Hollywood leans a leeetle left--Dan Glickman is a former Democratic Party Congressman.
And for the job of new MPA chairman? Just like it is at The Swamp: "No Republicans Need apply".
Posted by: Peter Zenger | October 19, 2009 2:12 PM
"No Republicans Need Apply" Followup--sure enough, today's politico.com is reporting that Harold Ford, former Democratic Congressman, is lobbying for the MPAA job.
Posted by: Peter Zenger | October 20, 2009 12:45 PM
Unholywood is the perfect venue for the loony left.
Whoopi on Polanski: "I know it wasn't rape-rape. It was something else but I don't believe it was rape-rape."
"We stand by and wait for his release and his next masterwork," Debra Winger.
Wackos.
Posted by: LIberals At The Gates | October 20, 2009 3:58 PM