From the Cornfields to the Field of Dreams

Daniel R. Glickman is a man of many talents. A former Congressman from Kansas, Director of the IOP, Secretary of Agriculture and currently the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) president, this guy has dealt with everything from grains to George Clooney. FM sat down with this multi-talented man to ask him some questions about his unusual life.

Fifteen Minutes: What’s the most shocking thing you’ve seen in Hollywood?
Daniel R. Glickman: Probably me at the Academy Awards.

FM: If your life became a film, who would play you? What type of film would it be?
DRG: Maybe how the Jewish son of a scrap-iron dealer becomes lead-farmer in America and then goes on to end up in the movie industry association. I don’t know who would play me, but George Clooney wouldn’t be bad, if we could get him to do that.

FM: Can the MPAA send Batman and Spidey to Hong Kong to fight copyright infringement?
DRG: We’ve used Jackie Chan quite a bit in Hong Kong. I don’t know if Batman and Spiderman can do in reality what they can do on the screen, though.


FM: What’s your favorite PG-13 moment in a G-film?
DRG: There aren’t any. All G-rated films are G-rated. There aren’t any PG-13 moments in a G-rated film.


FM: What is your favorite movie genre?
DRG: Big, powerful biographies. I loved Animal House, because it reminded me of my college fraternity. And I like some of the movies kids like, like Knocked Up, and Wedding Crashers. Superbad was okay, but I liked Knocked Up better. I still live in my adolescent days.