how does Jack Valenti sleep at night?

on a pile of cash.

the Washington Post noted that Hollywood's mouthpiece in DC is the second-most-highly-paid trade association head in the US, pulling down $1.15 million in 2000.

granted, it's not the same kind of coin as some of his paymasters are earning: Viacom's Sumner Redstone, Disney's Mike Eisner, AOL Time Warner's Gerald Levin, and MGM's Alex Yemenidjian earned a combined $260 million last year (i couldn't find any numbers for Sony's Howard Stringer and the boys at DreamWorks SKG)