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...Iron Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be experiencing a few problems as California's Governor [May 2]. It might cheer him to read an excerpt from Richard Schickel's Jan. 24, 1977, review of Pumping Iron, the documentary that helped make Schwarzenegger a household name...
...Pumping Iron] is a very good film, beautifully shot and edited, intelligently structured and?to risk what will surely seem at first a highly inappropriate term?charming. Yes, charming ... The film's second, longer half deals with professional-level competition in the Mr. Olympia contest. The filmmakers have found an ideal protagonist ... 'the one and only' Arnold Schwarzenegger, 29, an Austrian-born U.S. citizen, six times winner of this title and anxious to retire on a seventh victory. A cool, shrewd and boyish charmer, HE EXUDES THE EASY CONFIDENCE OF A MAN WHO HAS ALWAYS KNOWN HE WILL...
...pills that have gone missing somewhere between Amsterdam and London. This story line is essentially incomprehensible in its complexity. Mostly what one observes about it is that from time to time, not-very-nice people get dead in a variety of not-very-nice ways. Having a hot steam iron pressed against the chest is perhaps not the way any of us would choose to leave this life...
...most explosive trend in golf clubs? Hybrids--those half wood, half irons. Their larger, woodlike club faces make two- and three-iron approach shots far easier to hit. This season's hot hybrid newcomers: the Nickent Genex ($129) and Sonartec...
...actually good at both. As a musician, he has a reputation for being progressive and socially conscious, a post-bling antidote to hip-hop's rampant gangsterism. His latest solo album, The New Danger, came out in October, and it's an example of how Mos's iron commitment to his idiosyncratic sensibility can get in his way. It features his laid-back, verbally adroit rapping over shredding rock riffs. Critics dug it, but some fans shrugged. "I think people just were expecting something different," Mos says. "Kinda like, crusading, 'I'm gonna save hip-hop from all these jewelry...