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| Classic Arnold in his own script |
| Classic Arnold in his own script
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 9-October-2012
5:25:18 AM |
| In the Watergate era, this might have been called a "modified limited hangout."
Now, it's an "apology tour." And Arnold Schwarzenegger made a grand one last week as he worked through the confessional stops - from "60 Minutes" to Fox, pointed toward Jay Leno - while promoting a memoir that was published Monday by Simon & Schuster.
The book's title, "Total Recall," is not wholly apt. As with the partial revelations of Richard M. Nixon and company, it concedes fault and begs much forgiveness. But it forgets a lot of messy details
Mildred Baena, the housekeeper by whom Mr. Schwarzenegger fathered a son while married to Maria Shriver, is there. But not by her full name, nor anywhere in the 60-plus pages of family and celebrity photos. Martin D. Singer, the legal pit bull who for years has done battle with Mr. Schwarzenegger's detractors (in his Hollywood years, and as the governor of California) appears not at all.
Whether the book tour and its accompanying mea culpas are working for Mr. Schwarzenegger, who declined to be interviewed about his interviews, is an open question.
"He got to tell his own story in his own way, which is never a bad thing," said Howard Bragman, a longtime Hollywood publicist who is vice chairman of Reputation.com.
But, Mr. Bragman added, Mr. Schwarzenegger's trademark arrogance (endearing to fans of "The Expendables 2," a turnoff to others) also became the story in these Seven Days of Arnold:
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