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Title: Arnie puts his weight behind ex-lover's tell-all memoir
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London Telegraph
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai ... =/news/2006/09/14/warnie14.xml
Published: Sep 14, 2006
Author: Catherine Elsworth
Post Date: 2006-09-14 20:45:40 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Views: 120
Comments: 1
To be described as an unfaithful, pot-smoking self-centred robot two months before seeking re-election is something most politicians would think unhelpful. But for Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Hollywood hard man turned California governor, it is just another chapter in his journey from immigrant body-builder to Republican leader of America's most populous state. The Austrian-born star has again strayed from the political rule book by ignoring the moral majority to contribute a foreword to an ex-girlfriend's tell-all book. Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak is the self-published memoir of Barbara Outland Baker, who dated the governor for six years. Rather than issue fervent denials or denounce the book, the Terminator star even gave Mrs Outland Baker a three-hour interview for the 325-page book, published this week. He does, however, comment that "sometimes Barbara's recollection of events differs from my own". Mrs Outland Baker, 58, who teaches writing at a college, met Schwarzenegger in 1969 while working as a waitress soon after he arrived from Austria. "For six years, I lived to inhale the essence of Arnold Schwarzenegger," writes Mrs Outland Baker, who says she is still affected by the governor's persona three decades after their break-up. The book discusses how the young body-builder talked his first serious girlfriend into surrendering her virginity, which she had been saving for marriage, and details their turbulent and passionate love life. She discovered that Schwarzenegger had been unfaithful only after they parted. She also documents the governor's pot-smoking days, his taste for "Maui-wowie" cannabis and use of anabolic steroids, which he has previously admitted. In one scene in the book the couple watch the porn film Deep Throat together. In another, Schwarzenegger is enraged when he discovers that footage of him body-building has been used without his permission in a gay sex film. Much was made of Schwarzenegger's colourful past during the 2003 campaign that brought him to office but this time, his wild days of old have not become an issue and he remains far ahead in the polls.
Poster Comment: "For six years, I lived to inhale the essence of Arnold Schwarzenegger," That is one HELL of a long..uh..."session".... :P
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#1. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#0)
Another book from the department of whatever. Do we really need to read another book about this guy? Isn't bad enough that he made Last Action Hero? Can't this guy just fade into obscurity? This is one person for all the good he's done in this country, that just needs to get lost. I like Arnie as much as the next guy, probably less. I'd like him to fade out because he's becoming the William Shatner of politics.
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