MPAA's CEO Quest Ends With Dodd
After a 15-month, Lost Ark-rivaling quest, the Motion Picture Association of America’s search for a chairman-CEO has finally ended. The MPAA announced this week that five-term Connecticut senator and one-time presidential hopeful Christopher Dodd would take on the role.
Dodd didn’t sound a bit shaken when he told the L.A. Times that his years of cross-party work “putting together a financial reform bill and 50 percent of the healthcare bill” have adequately prepared him to wheel-and-deal among cut-throat movie execs, big challenges lie ahead for the former senator, whose only previous experience with Hollywood was a cameo in the 1993 Ivan Reitman movie Dave.
Set to step into his new position on March 17, Dodd dons the hat of Hollywood’s chief lobbyist soon after a critically panned Oscars, and during a tough time for the film industry as a whole: Movie-theater attendance has declined by more than 20 percent since last year,...
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