The Motion Picture Association of America's decision to ban DVDs of Oscar contenders for Academy Awards voters has developed into an industry cat fight, (as) distributors and publicists of smaller films, who fear that their pictures no longer will have a shot at a gold statuette. The MPAA acted after discovering that of the 68 titles sent to members of the academy and the press last year, 34 wound up on the streets as counterfeits. Valenti adds that the DVDs' recipients are not to blame. Until the controversy over the MPAA decision dies down, Valenti will follow the advice of his former boss, President Lyndon B. Johnson. "You just hunker down like a jackass in a hailstorm and wait till the wind stops blowing," Valenti said. [Bad example. LBJ tried this during Vietnam and look what happened ;-) ] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/08/DD69468.DTL&type=movies