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TERMINATOR FALLS INTO CALIFORNIA FROM HOLE IN HOLLYWOOD, WANTS TO BE GOVERNOR


I remember the shock we felt in Berkeley when tv cowboy Reagan from Illinois ambled out of Death Valley Days (where for black-and-white years he'd washed his hands with borax) to take on the role of California Governor and they played his old commercials as cartoons in the Bay Area movie houses and they were hilarious, but times have changed, people now believe that Hollywood is legitimate prep for politics, and they're right in many respects.

Movies and politics both involve big productions, big spin, big parts, scripts to follow, promotion campaigns, production values, illusions, disbeliefs to suspend, raspberries to ignore.

Dubya (currently in the major national role), the son of Reagan's bland supporting actor, has no theater background himself (no personal background at all, really) and is a lousy actor, like a movie-extra who looks into the camera. He's always wanted a part in a war movie.

Reagan, on the other hand, for whom reality was never a major intrusion, simply followed the Governor script, then the President script, did his walk-ons, said a few lines, let operatives run things, waved-- and events the producers wanted to happen happened. The rich loved what Ronny did for their portfolios, the poor as usual couldn't afford to pay much attention to what wasn't trickling down from way up there, and the middle class were content with modest raises, though taxes soon took those away and more...

And here we are back again in very low budget California, where a naturalized Mr. Universe action movie robot from Graz, Austria falls into California from a hole in Hollywood and walks around wanting to be Governor. The question is, will today's Californians also vote for a fading action hero, or are a majority of them smarter than he thinks they are? Anyway he wants their vote, like 40 years ago he wanted muscles.