Posted on 11/14/2005 11:36:06 AM PST by JZelle
In movies, a big star is insulated by protocol and precedence. Your big-time silver-screen colossus might get killed in a film, but not by the hands of some nondescript extra who casually shoots him with nary a thought. Alas, democratic politics aren't half so respectful of status: Last week Arnold Schwarzenegger got sand kicked in his face by millions of nondescript extras -- the California voters who rejected all four of the propositions he had backed. The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan says "with each day a star is in politics he loses some of his star-glow, and if he doesn't gain, each day, an equal amount of leader-glow he begins to experience a steady diminution of personal power." Arnold can't respond to Tuesday's defeats by going on TV and saying yet again "Ah'll be back" -- it's a cute line but not when you're being kicked down the hallway by the masses. So now he's being stalked by Warren Beatty. In the run-up to Election Day, Mr. Beatty showed up everywhere Arnold did, as if he were the Actors' Equity-designated understudy for the role. If they're remaking "42nd Street," Arnold is Bebe Daniels, Warren's got the Ruby Keeler role as the plucky kid from the chorus who gets sent on stage with the stirring words, "You're going out there a youngster but you've got to come back a star." Or in Warren's case: "You're going out there a wrinkly woozy semi-has-been but you've got to come back a star."
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He won't run. He is cowardly, full of sh**, and fears what reporters would inevitably find on him if he tried.
No research necessary - it's all in the tabloids, and though not reputable sources, the stories are all sleazy and true.
The guy has been one of the biggest manwhores in Hollywood history. Anything with a pulse, and he would try to dry hump it.
and he is just not tot sharp - speaking of rock boxes --- Go BOXER/Hillary in '08!
"it's all in the tabloids"
I would not assume that. I do think though that it might be good for Beatty to be the one who pounds the final nail in California's coffin.
"No research necessary - it's all in the tabloids, and though not reputable sources, the stories are all sleazy and true."
I thought that "fake but accurate" was the new standard -- especially if the accusations are serious enough.
I agree he is a very debauched person, there are I am sure many other stories that were covered up, killed, etc. And many more that just never made it to a reporter's ear. It's not unusual for someone to sit down with a reporter and get a story killed with various promises. Hollywood is the same as Politics.
I doubt it's a matter of "he's slept around a lot over the years" - I think it's a matter of him cheating on his wife or even engaging in acts more pathological than garden variety fornication.
She's wrong about one thing.... he's a DEM so the press wouldn't delve into his sex life, but almost everyone (of any age at all) is aware of his sexual background. I'm sure he'd be as happy to have his children hear about this as Arnold and Maria were.
Madonna being a prime example of this...
Bullworth!
--that would be an appealing idea--although I suspect the Demotraitors' long-term plan is a federal bailout at some future date when we have a Dem Congress and President again--
A mere 40-50 years ago, politicians had to project the image of being family men even when, as in the case of John Kennedy, they certainly were not. Nelson Rockefeller's divorce and remarriage were considered major obstacles to his Presidential ambitions. Sexual misconduct is no longer a bar to even the highest public office in the land, as Bill Clinton proved. How America has fallen!
I wish a bullet would bite Beaty.
Heaving can wait
Instead of biting the bullet why doesn't he just eat a bullet.
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