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Posted on 10/14/2003 11:18:11 PM PDT by kattracks
ARNOLD Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial triumph has gotten others thinking. First in line is "Access Hollywood" anchor Pat O'Brien. The former sportscaster is setting his sights on South Dakota. "I have harbored thoughts about running for governor of South Dakota," O'Brien told GQ. "I am from South Dakota. I love it there. It's not a whim. I know what I'm talking about." The self-proclaimed "George McGovern Democrat" won't be announcing his intentions on Jay Leno's show - he'll break the news to Schwarzenegger first.HIS OWN STUNTS
LAST night's fund-raiser for the Rev. Al Sharpton at Jay-Z's 40/40 club was also a late birthday party for the Democratic presidential hopeful. He turned 49 on Oct. 3. Though Sharpton doesn't seem to be going anywhere in the polls, he was upbeat as he prepared to party with P. Diddy and Russell Simmons. Sharpton was buoyed by Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory in California. "He proved that you don't have to be a career politician to get elected," said the Rev. "We're a lot alike, only I didn't have a stunt man to do all my dirty work."
WOODY'S WORLD, IN HIS WORDS
WOODY Allen is ready to tell all about his fascinating life - and PAGE SIX has obtained a copy of his 12-page book proposal. "One selling point to begin with is that I do have some ability to write," Allen's pitch to publishers begins. "It's not an 'as told to' book, nor is it written by an actor or director who has no experience with prose . . . The drawback is that it would take me between six months and a year to really do a fine job and it's hard to imagine there's enough money out there to make me take the time away from film or theater to do it."
But if the bucks are big enough - and Allen is said to want a whopping $10 million - he'll detail his colorful childhood in Brooklyn, his 50-year show business career and his relationships with the likes of Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow, Soon-Yi Previn and former business partner Jean Doumanian.
Among the more tantalizing topics:
* "My incredible meeting with Mia Farrow, our totally unconventional courtship (I never phoned her, only my secretary spoke to her) - our experiences together, our problems, my falling in love with her daughter and the subsequent earthquake it caused. The Mia episode is really a book in itself, a few years of bedlam including court cases, custody fights, experiences too bizarre to detail with psychiatrists of all types, private detectives, phone tap sweeps, and a press that one wouldn't (and shouldn't believe)."
* The messy lawsuit against Doumanian: "There was not a day in 40 years we didn't see each other or speak many times on the phone, not a day we didn't have dinner together for at least ten to 20 years, went through millions of ups and downs (not with each other, with the outside world) - they backed me to the hilt in my custody battle, I backed Jean Doumanian when she had a brutal tenure as producer of 'Saturday Night Live,' and yet we wound up in court never speaking to one another again. Quite a tale."
* Wife Soon-Yi's journey from a 6-year-old orphan on the streets of Korea eating out of a garbage pail to her current life as a "lady of fashion on the Upper East Side with a large home, children, a full staff of domestics and has traveled all over with me."
Allen vows a book "full of fascinating and juicy real life dramas and conflicts, some more dramatic than any film I can make."
He ends his pitch: "For this I want a lot of money. The ball is in your court."
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Ewwww. Please God, no.
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