July 10, 2003

California can sit and wait -- there are movie tickets to sell! Schwarzenegger pushes back his decision date on the race of Governor until August 15 -- after T3 has opened world wide. Memo to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Georg Gorton -- this may come 2 weeks after the window for filing has closed, which may be as early as July 25. Quotable:

The Austrian-born star of the "Terminator" will not announce whether he will challenge the cash-strapped US state's embattled Governor Gray Davis for the job until his latest movie has opened all over the world, an aide said. "Arnold is concentrating on his movie work right now and won't make any decision on whether to run until "Terminator 3" has opened in all foreign markets," said his political advisor George Gorton. "Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines" is due to make its remaining overseas debuts between July 20 and August 15.

My nagging suspicion is that Schwarzenegger is doing a Donald Trump (or a Colin Powell) -- teasing folks with the prospect of an electorial run for the purpose of selling a product, but with no real intention of running for office. I rather hope I'm proved wrong. But clearly Schwarzenegger intends to make many more movies (he's recently said so), and just as clearly, there's lots more fun and money in movie making than in solving the problems of California.

Posted by Greg Ransom