Another Hollywood Candidate?
May 25th, 2005 at 7:05 am by Susie
Sounds like Warren’s thinking about running:
In the last few months, [Warren] Beatty, the star of and force behind such seminal films as “Shampoo” and “Bonnie and Clyde,” has become the first big name to break the entertainment community’s unofficial speak-no-evil toward Schwarzenegger and his wife, Shriver.Over the weekend, Beatty, 68, gave his first commencement speech ever to the graduating class of UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, and used the occasion to humorously but witheringly attack Schwarzenegger — much like the candid candidate Jay Billington Bulworth from his 1998 political satire. He derided the governor for “his reactionary right-wing agenda,” “his bullying of labor and the little guy,” his plan to spend money on a “totally unnecessary special election” and his refusal to raise taxes on the rich. Beatty asked Schwarzenegger to “cut down the photo ops, the fake events, the fake issues, the fake crowds … the scapegoats, the ‘language problems,’ the broken promises, the ‘Minutemen,’ the prevarications and put some sunlight on some taxes.
“It’s become time to define a Schwarzenegger Republican — a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he’s a Schwarzenegger Republican,” Beatty said. “Can’t we accept that devotion to the building of the body politic is more complex and a little more sensitive than devotion to body-building?
“Does that make me a ‘girlie-man’?” asked one of the 20th century’s most famous Lotharios.


