Salon: Hollywood's Battle of the Sexes Over Arnold

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Movie industry women are working to expose the actor's sexual misbehavior, while men are protecting him. Their efforts have led at least some of his victims to come forward, but will voters care?

By Kathleen Sharp

The minute Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he was running for California governor Aug. 6, all of Hollywood knew that tales of his womanizing would make headlines again. The prospect of news cameras zooming in on Schwarzenegger's private life was supposedly the big reason his wife, Maria Shriver, had reservations about his running. There had been plenty of stories about the actor's high jinks even before he'd officially become a politician: In March 2001 Premiere magazine printed a now-notorious article by writer John Connolly that featured named and unnamed sources detailing instances in which the actor groped women's breasts, bullied and humiliated assistants and crew members on movie sets, and cheated on Shriver.

Years earlier Connolly had revealed, in an October 1993 US magazine, that several women who worked for famed Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss had auditioned for Schwarzenegger's unsuccessful movie "The Last Action Hero." The Los Angeles Times reported that Columbia Pictures' parent company Sony was investigating whether these women were hired as "extras" on the overbudget movie. Around the same time, a French women's magazine reported that one of Heidi's women claimed the muscleman himself was a client while on the set of "Last Action Hero." Schwarzenegger sued and won under France's stringent libel laws, but with the actor's sudden entry into the recall race, all the old stories were being chased again.

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[Cha]

1. I just remembered that I read that jamie lee curtis was supporting

arnie and I am thoroughly disgusted by that! No more respect for her if she keeps up with that.

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3. Tony Curtis is a * supporter, too,

who thinks we should blindly trust the president to do what's best for us all.
After all, he knows more than we do.
:crazy:

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2. why the constant use of euphemisms?

... such as "peccadilloes", "womanizing", "high jinks"? these terms trivialize Schwarzenegger's crimes. the correct terms are "groping", "harassment", "molestation", "sexual battery", which better convey the criminality and complete unacceptability of his behavior.