Valenti memoir stays on track
Book to come out June 5
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A rep from Harmony Books, a unit of Random House, said that Valenti's autobio, "This Time, This Place," will come out as planned with a 100,000-copy first printing.
Still, publishers often up a print run or go back to press before a release date if they sense increased media or public interest.
Tome will tell of Valenti's long career in both Hollywood and Washington. Harmony said there had been extensive media plans for D.C., NY and L.A. before his death on Thursday.
Valenti had said the book covers his youth in a poor Houston suburb to his long tenure at the MPAA.
"This is not a get-even book," the former head of the Motion Picture Assn. said at the time of the book's sale. "There may be three or four people I vent a little spleen on, but it takes too much energy to be vengeful or hateful."
Valenti had penned five previous books, including a nonfiction title about public speaking, but never a memoir.
Publisher noted that there was a certain sad irony to the book going from a retrospective from a living luminary to a memorial for him.
"(Jack) was really excited about the book and he had worked really hard on it," said Harmony's Tina Constable. "We are sorry he didn't get to see enjoy the actual publication."
