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Worst Thing About Feeling Good Two touchie-kissie-sweetie movies, Ghost and Pretty Woman, won worldwide success. Audiences who had tired of muscling in on the macho antics of Arnold and Sly instead cozied up to a couple of lame femme fantasies with morals no more profound than Shop Till You Drop (Pretty Woman) and Kiss the Corpse (Ghost...
...devisers of these burly entertainments knew the Arnold character was both incredibly heroic and inherently comic; the films contain their own parodies. Moviegoers realized this too. Sure, even his forehead has intimidating muscles; but then he breaks into a big gap-toothed grin, and the put-off is revealed as a put-on. So to cast Schwarzenegger in comedy is very nearly redundant -- especially when, as with Twins (1988), it offered nothing more than Hollywood high concept: pairing the big guy with scruffy shrimp Danny De Vito. Even lamer is Kindergarten Cop, which opens in the U.S. this week...
Hollywood is more demanding than any critic; it looks for quality only on a profit statement. There, through good movies and bad, action films and comedies, Arnold gets four stars. His pictures can use a strong premise, but they don't need high-priced supporting players; his aura is enough. (Quick, name the second-billed actor of The Terminator, Commando, Predator or Total Recall.) He also has the respect -- maybe even the fear -- of the front-office boys, because he gets involved in every aspect of production and promotion...
BUSINESS: King Arnold has a hammerlock on box offices around the world...
PHOTOGRAPHY: Richard L. Boeth, MaryAnne Golon, Rose Keyser, Julia Richer (Associate Editors); Kevin J. McVea (Traffic); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consulting Picture Editor); Dorothy Affa Ames, Sarah Buffum, Paula Hornak Kellner, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam, Robert B. Stevens, Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Cynthia Johnson, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez...