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...there's not an Academy Award for head fakes. As Arnold Schwarzenegger prepared to step onto the Tonight Show stage last week, Jay Leno asked him how he was going to make the expected announcement that he was not going to run for Governor of California. Schwarzenegger murmured, "I am bowing out." And that's what everyone was expecting to hear. In fact, top adviser George Gorton stood at the edge of the set, holding the official statement that began, "I am not running for Governor..." When Gorton offered one last word of regret over the campaign that wasn...
...film Pumping Iron, said that if Feinstein dropped out because she believed Schwarzenegger wasn't running, then she fell for the same tactic the bodybuilder used when he wanted to make his opponents believe he would stay out of the competition. "It looked to me like an old-time Arnold maneuver," Butler says. "What you're dealing with is one of the canniest operators who ever walked across the road in America...
Schwarzenegger shouldn't expect to see many of the other Kennedys stumping for him. "I like and respect Arnold," said Shriver's uncle Teddy Kennedy. But the Massachusetts Senator added, "I'm a Democrat, and I don't support the recall effort." But Schwarzenegger has never tied his fortunes, political or otherwise, to those of his famous in-laws. When Shriver threw an outdoor party at their house for Teddy and her cousin Caroline Kennedy during the 2000 Democratic convention in Los Angeles, Schwarzenegger mingled for half an hour or so and then retreated inside. "That was not his crowd...
Last Thursday, when Arnold Schwarzenegger arrived at the county government building in Norwalk, Calif., you could tell with no trouble that he was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood--and not just if you measure lat spread. He was trailed by a media contingent of the kind that usually turns out for George W. Bush. With the arched cushions of his pectorals thrusting out like an advance party, Schwarzenegger treated it all as his due. We're talking after all about a man who once routinely walked out on stages in a bathing suit to the opening theme from...
...from movie stars. A guy can spend decades playing killer robots and musclehead commandos without once being asked to provide the timeline on his steroid use, fill in the picture on his sex life or clarify his position on offshore oil drilling. On the Today show last week, Arnold was asked twice whether he would make his tax returns public. He claimed he couldn't hear the question...