Big Muscles

[poliphilo]

I never liked Schwarzenegger. I never like Stallone either. The Big Muscles thing always struck me as infantile. I can remember being hooked on big muscles when I was seven or eight. My big muscles hero was Steve Reeves- who played Hercules and similar characters in a series of lets-see-how-much-we-can-get-away-with Italian tits 'n' toga epics c.1960. Once puberty started to kick in, Steve toppled out of my pantheon of love-objects, to be replaced by Audrey Hepburn.

I'm a girlie-man.

Schwarzenegger's performance at the RNC was piss poor. The jokes were crass and predictable and he fluffed the timing. The political content was nil. Mainly he stood there and preened and grinned. He was a receiver. A satellite dish. He was there to gather up the adulation of the hall and transmit it on to George W Bush.

If his skin were any tighter his face would split in two. Or maybe four.

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[besideserato.livejournal.com]

The man who encountered him in the wings and said, "you are as good a politician as you are an actor" was right, whether it was a low shot or not.

It makes me unhappy that I would take away from a political convention nothing but open laughter. This is the future of a country, it is not a laughing matter--but by god, the things he was saying!

Unbelievable.

[balirus.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, who is relaying the RNC broadcast over there? Is it highlight/headliner coverage only, or is it being broadcast in its entirety?

[kaysho.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhnold is one of those people where you have to suspect that there must be some substance beneath the image ... but secretly you fear there isn't. :)