In the carny funhouse that is California politics, a supposedly serious U.S. senator has now gone after actor/candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger over the deep public policy import of his movie roles. Less than profound.
In her most passionate comments yet on California's recall election, Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Thursday suggested Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie image "glorifies violence'' and called on the actor-turned-candidate to get behind her federal ban on assault-style weapons."I'm one that believes there is too much violence in movies and that violence begets violence, and that you become a role model for someone of lesser maturity out on the street to try to imitate what you do in the movies,'' the state's senior senator said during a news conference outside Los Angeles Police Department headquarters. That, she added, is not "terribly healthy for a society.''
via the Mercury News
To round out the picture, Hollywood's leftists are starting to get their knickers knotted, including the always horny, publicity-seeking Cybill Shepherd, who inexplicably thinks that we care that she once kissed Gray Davis when they were teens, or that The Terminator can be threatened by his own dark past.
Cybill Shepherd is freaked out by the prospect of the Austrian-born action hero in the executive mansion. "That would be the worst tragedy in the history of California," Shepherd hyperventilated to "Access Hollywood."Posted by Alan at August 22, 2003 07:50 AM"I think that we are the laughing stock of the world, with Arnold Schwarzenegger running [for] governor," Shepherd said. "I think he's a real hypocrite. I think he has a past that is going to come out, and I'm not going to mention what it is, but it's not going to be pretty."
via the New York Post