You are a girlie man.
Posted on 05/26/2005 7:52:09 AM PDT by Dick Vomer
"I see nothing wrong with Maria [Shriver] becoming a Republican. I'd say many of my best friends are Republicans," says Warren Beatty, Oscar-winning actor-director and liberal citizen-activist.....not really joking. ..............
Though Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's poll numbers have been dropping thanks .................................................
..................much like the candid candidate Jay Billington Bulworth from his 1998 political satire. He derided the governor for "his reactionary right-wing agenda," "his bullying of labor and the little guy," his plan to spend money on a "totally unnecessary special election" and his refusal to raise taxes on the rich. Beatty asked Schwarzenegger to "cut down the photo ops, the fake events, the fake issues, the fake crowds … the scapegoats, the 'language problems,' the broken promises, the 'Minutemen,' the prevarications and put some sunlight on some taxes.
"It's become time to define a Schwarzenegger Republican — a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican," Beatty said. "Can't we accept that devotion to the building of the body politic is more complex and a little more sensitive than devotion to body-building?
"Does that make me a 'girlie-man'?" asked one of the 20th century's most famous Lotharios.
Beatty, a political veteran who's worked for every Democratic presidential candidate since Robert Kennedy in 1968, dismissed Schwarzenegger's claims of uniting both sides of the political aisle..............could do as much harm as it would help." Of course, the stakes change when it's all-Hollywood mano a mano.
"In California, it's much more difficult to demonize the entertainment community when the governor is an entertainer. If I'm leading the way on that, that's good," Beatty says. Indeed, this is the second anti-Schwarzenegger speech that Beatty has delivered in the last few months, and he's not ruling out more. ....................
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Some questions it is better not to ask.
You are a girlie man.
Yep...pretty much.
If you have to ask, you are.
I saw the film. He was not acting like a girlie-man. Every broad in the picture was jumping his bones.
Oh great. The LA Times is so desperate to find a match for Arnold, they are trotting out that old relic Beatty. The guy is such a dim bulb. I went to a conference once where rambled on four so long the audience started walking out. So full of himself. And he thinks he's smart, which is a dangerous combo, especially when your a dope.
If you have to ask, the answer is Yes.
I'd say yes.
"Don't ever call me Bugsy"
"Yes Ahnold, ve agree. Varren ist a girlie mon!"
Yup, it sure does sissy boy.
"Pump you up!"
Just because the guy is heterosexual (one is tempted to say "metrosexual") doesn't mean he doesn't meet most of qualifications for "girlie-manhood" (e.g. narcissism, foppishness, immaturity, etc). Sure, he has a carefully-crafted image as a "ladies' man", but then again, so does Woody Allen. We shouldn't confuse Don Juanism and satyriasis as masculinity, lest we be inclined to think of Bill Clinton as "mas macho" than President Bush.
You're right. I guess I was thinking about my impression of when I saw the film. I thought, as many teenagers did at the time, that he was doing what every guy wanted to do.
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