Arnold Schwarzenegger, who on Monday stepped down as California governor, used his Twitter account to thank Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for his wishes.
The action movie star invited the Russian leader to ski with him, RIA Novosti reports.
Posts Tagged ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger’
Schwarzenegger invites Medvedev to ski with him
January 4th, 2011 |
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Schwarzenegger leaves office
January 3rd, 2011 |
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Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is stepping down as California governor on Monday, is considering a return to cinema screens. The world’s best known action star, Schwarzenegger, 63, was the state’s Republican governor for seven years. He was first elected to the post in October 2003 and was re-elected in November 2006.
George Lopez Los Angeles Mayor?
December 22nd, 2010 |
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George Lopez to Run For LA Mayor: MyFoxLA.com From Late-Night to Mayor of Los Angeles? Funny guy George Lopez looked as serious as a bed bug outbreak as he discussed his intention of running for mayor of one of the nation’s three largest cities…in eight years, of course. “I’m going to run for… Although I [...]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: “No One Cares If You Get High!â€
November 10th, 2010 |
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“No one cares if you smoke a joint,” at least that’s what exiting California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger thinks. Five weeks ago, the bodybuilder/actor-turned-politician signed a law that made possession of up to an ounce of marijuana the equivalent of a traffic ticket. It carries a penalty of no more than a $100 fine and no [...]
No one cares if people smoke marijuana, says Arnie
November 9th, 2010 |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, has claimed that no one bothers if people smoke marijuana. In an interview on a popular US chat show, the Hollywood actor signed a law five weeks ago which enabled those people in possession of up to an ounce of marijuana to escape with a 100 dollars fine and not [...]
Colin Farrell “Total Recall†Remake
October 22nd, 2010 |
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This Just In: The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Irish baddie Colin Farrell is the top choice to follow in Governor Arnold’s footsteps at the lead in Paramount Pictures’ remake of the 1990 action-smash Total Recall. Good Choice? No offers have been made yet, but actor Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender join Colin in the [...]
California Outlaws Online Impersonation Meant to Cause Harm
September 29th, 2010 |
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California passed a state law Monday that makes it a crime to impersonate someone online with the intent to cause harm or commit fraud. – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Monday that makes
it illegal to impersonate someone online with intent to harm, intimidate,
threaten or defraud.
Senate
Bill 1411 passed the legislature unanimously. Under the legislation, quot;Any
person who knowingly and without conse…
James Cameron ‘turning ‘True Lies’ into TV series’
September 14th, 2010 |
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‘Avatar’ director James Cameron is all set to turn Arnold Schwarzenegger action-comedy ‘True Lies’ into a TV series. The 1994 movie dealt with a story of a family man, played by Arnold, who lives double life as a secret agent. At the time of its release, it was the most expensive movie ever made, as [...]
Arnie is the most extraordinary guy I’ve ever met, says Sly
September 11th, 2010 |
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Sylvester Stallone insists Arnold Schwarzenegger is the most ‘extraordinary’ man he”s ever met. The two stars, who recently teamed up briefly for Stallone”s action film ‘The Expendables’, first met at the 1977 Golden Globe Awards and, despite their rivalry on the big screen, they”ve always been good friends – and business partners in the Planet [...]
Arnie’s daughter to release self-help book
September 11th, 2010 |
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Katherine, Arnold Schwarzenegger”s daughter, is all set to release her first book ‘Rock What You”ve Got’, helping girls gain confidence in their bodies and themselves. The 20-year-old, who is a junior Communication major at the University of South California, has written Rock What You”ve Got: Secrets to Loving Your Inner and Outer Beauty. She said [...]
Legal battle over 3D animated remake of ‘The Terminator’
August 17th, 2010 |
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The company which holds the rights to Hollywood movie series ‘The Terminator’ has objected to another firm’s plans of making the sci-fi franchise’s 3D remake. Executives at production company Hannover House had planned to make Terminator 3000, a new 3D animated remake of the action movie series originally starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. But officials at Pacificor, [...]
Sly Stallone & “The Expendables†Outmuscle Julia Roberts At Weekend Box Office
August 15th, 2010 |
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Sylvester Stallone back on top of the box office — The Expendables stole the top spot at the box office this weekend, earning $35 million in its first week of release. Julia Roberts’ Eat, Pray, Love — the big-screen adaptation of the bestselling memoir about a woman’s international search for herself — came in second, [...]
Sly persuaded Arnie to make a comeback
August 11th, 2010 |
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Sylvester Stallone has revealed that he persuaded Arnold Schwarzenegger to come out of retirement for one last action movie after dinning with him ””for years””. Arnie Schwarzenegger, the current holder of the office, agreed to make a cameo appearance in ‘The Expendables’ only after a long and determined campaign its director Stallone waged in some [...]
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a tough dad when it comes to green matters
August 6th, 2010 |
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It seems Arnold Schwarzenegger is back to his tough-guy days to teach his children about the environment. The 63-year-old California Governor is a hardliner when it comes to green matters. If his children Katherine, 20, Christina, 19, Patrick, 16, and Christopher, 12, forget to turn off a light, they get punished. “My dad is such [...]
Wiseman to remake Arnie’s ‘Total Recall’
July 30th, 2010 |
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Filmmaker Len Wiseman is set to create a modern remake of the 1990 action classic ‘Total Recall’, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Movie studio executives at Columbia Pictures secured the rights to the sci-fi thriller last year and hired Salt writer Kurt Wimmer for the updated screenplay. According to The Daily Express, Wiseman has now been approached [...]
Gibsonâ€s rep laughs off Schwarzeneggerâ€s wisecracks
July 23rd, 2010 |
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Mel Gibson”s rep has laughed off Arnold Schwarzenegger”s jibe about the Braveheart star”s troubled personal life. The California governor had recently compared Gibson to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Schwarzenegger recently made a series of jokes at Gibson”s expense as he spoke to a group of utility commissioners in Sacramento, California, about the BP [...]
Arnold Schwarzenegger Makes Fun Of Mel Gibson
July 22nd, 2010 |
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We haven’t seen The Arnold try his hand at comedy since his turn in the 1996 flick Jingle All The Way, but the action star-turned-California Commander tried his best to tickle our funny bones by poking fun at Mel Gibson’s recent audio rants during a press conference in Sacramento on Wednesday.The Terminator himself jokingly compared [...]
Arnie ‘compares Mel Gibson to Gulf oil spill’
July 22nd, 2010 |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California, has compared Mel Gibson to the Gulf oil spill. The former Terminator star joked that while BP had seemingly contained its leaking oil well “no one has figured out how to contain Mel Gibsonâ€. Schwarzenegger also told the group of utility commissioners at a conference in Sacramento to turn [...]
Arnie appoints Geena Davis to California womenâ€s equality panel
July 21st, 2010 |
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Action star-turned-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed actress Geena Davis to a state commission established to promote women”s equality. The ‘Thelma and Louise’ star, a Democrat, was appointed to California”s Commission on the Status of Women on Tuesday, reports the Daily Express. The nonpartisan panel works to promote equality and justice for all women in [...]
Rail firms’ wartime records: What did you do in the war?
July 8th, 2010 |
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Bidders for Californian high-speed rail may have their past raked over
LAWMAKERS in California voted unanimously on June 29th to approve a proposed law which would force any company bidding for contracts to build the state’s new $43 billion high-speed rail system to disclose whether they transported Jews, American soldiers or others to concentration camps during the Holocaust. Its author, Bob Blumenfield, a Democrat, specifically highlighted the wartime record of SNCF, which nowadays operates France’s TGV high-speed trains. The French firm expects that the bill will clear all further legislative hurdles, including the sign-off by the normally veto-prone governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Providing the details required by the law will be fairly easy for SNCF. Facing questions about its record, it commissioned a study in 1992 on how it deported Jews en route to Nazi death camps. The report described how it carried out the Vichy government’s orders with no protest or resistance except for isolated acts by individual railwaymen, and took payment for the shipments. The firm will also have to state that despite a series of lawsuits it avoided paying compensation for its acts: it successfully argued that it was under the orders of the French government and German occupiers. …