Thursday, August 07, 2003

The Ultimate Politics of Celebrity

There's household name celebrities and then there's first name basis, name on the marquee above the title, $20 million a film celebrities. Not just a movie star - one of the half dozen biggest movie stars.

Ah-nold for governor just put the presidential race on the back pages for two months.

Notice how he managed to work in "hasta la vista baby," "I'll be back" and "pump you up" (not even his catchphrase!) in less than 15 minutes.

Last night might have been the peak: now that he's in he will have to take actual positions on actual issues.

And did anyone notice that the guy who started this 300 ring circus, Darrell Issa, just dropped out?

On the down side I had really been looking forward to Senator Jerry Springer...

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