Jack Valenti

Flowers are placed on the Walk of Fame star of Jack Valenti on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, Thursday, April 26, 2007. Valenti, the former White House aide and film industry lobbyist who instituted the modern movie ratings system and guided Hollywood from the censorship era to the digital age, died Thursday. He was 85.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, left, talks with Motion Picture Association of America President Jack Valenti in this April 21, 1998, file photo during a trip to Los Angeles. Valenti, the colorful, charismatic head of the Motion Picture Association of America for almost four decades, died Thursday, April 26, 2007. He was 85.

Former Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) president Jack Valenti poses wearing his new insignia outside the French Culture ministry after an award ceremony, in this Sept. 6, 2004, file photo in Paris where he was awarded with the distinction of Officer of the Legion of Honor by French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabre.

President Bill Clinton gestures while meeting with Motion Picture Assiciation of America President Jack Valenti in the Oval Office of the White House in this Dec. 19, 1996, file photo. Valenti served as the film industry's Washington liaison from 1966-2004 and was among the most visible lobbyists in the country.

This photo supplied by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library shows Jack Valenti working on the State of Union speech for President Lyndon Johnson while a White House aide, at the White House in Washington on Jan. 12, 1966.

President Lyndon B. Johnson consults with assistants while drafting the State of the Union address at the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 1966. From left are, Richard Goodwin, former presidential assistant called back from Wesleyan University to help on the speech; Jack Valenti; President Johnson; and Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

This photo supplied by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library shows Jack Valenti at the bedside of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md., for gall bladder surgery, on Oct.10, 1965.

This photo supplied by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library shows Jack Valenti, right, listening as President Lyndon B. Johnson listens to McGeorge Bundy, kneeling, during a strategy conference of the Vietnam War at CINCPAC headquarters at Camp Smith in Honolulu on Feb. 8, 1966.

President Lyndon Johnson confers with his close aide, Jack Valenti, after watching on television the launch of the Saturn super rocket in Washington, in this Jan. 29, 1964 file photo.

Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as President of the United States in the cabin of the presidential plane as Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy stands at his side in this Nov. 22,1963, file photo. Judge Sarah T. Hughes, standing foreground left, administers the oath. From left are, Jack Valenti, administrative assistant to Johnson; Rep. Albert Thomas, D-Tex.; Mrs. Johnson; and Rep. Jack Brooks,D-Tex.

President Lyndon Johnson pauses near the door of his office for a brief conference with his close aide, Jack Valenti, in Washington, in this Feb. 8, 1964 file photo.

Actors Michael Douglas, Kirk Douglas and former MPAA president Jack Valenti attend the hand and footprints ceremony honoring Valenti at the Grauman's Chinese Theater December 6, 2004 in Hollywood, California.

President and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America Jack Valenti delivers the opening ceremony convention address at ShoWest 2003 at Le Theatre Des Arts Paris Hotel on March 4, 2003, in Las Vegas. The highly articulate and pugnacious Valenti was among the most visible lobbyists in the country, as comfortable testifying at a government hearing as he was appearing on the Academy Awards.

In this Sept. 4, 2004 file photo, Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America arrives for the premiere of Stephen Spielberg's film 'The Terminal' during the 30th Deauville American film festival in Deauville, France.

Former MPAA president Jack Valenti and director George Lucas, right, pose at the dinner during the 33rd AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to George Lucas at the Kodak Theatre on June 9, 2005, in Hollywood, Calif.

Former MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) president Jack Valenti, right, arrives with his wife Mary Margaret Valenti March 5, 2006, for the 78th Academy Awards to be presented at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Calif.

Director Steven Spielberg, left, and former Motion Picture Association of America CEO Jack Valenti in the audience during the 59th annual Directors Guild Of America Awards held at Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on February 3, 2007, in Los Angeles.

Jack Valenti speaks at the First Annual MPAA "The Business of Show Business" Dinner on Feb. 6, 2007 in Washington. The highly articulate and pugnacious Valenti was among the most visible lobbyists in the country, as comfortable testifying at a government hearing as he was appearing on the Academy Awards.

Former chair and CEO of the MPAA Jack Valenti poses with the sculpture at the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and American Film Institute (AFI) reception in honor of the unveiling of a bust of Jack Valenti at the Mark Goodson screening room on Feb. 22, 2007, in Los Angeles.

Former chair and CEO of the MPAA Jack Valenti attends the 79th Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre on Feb. 25, 2007 in Hollywood, Calif.