Arnold Schwarzenegger

Laura Chick Is California's New Inspector General - Posted April 6, 2009
Laura Chick is, in fact, California's very first inspector general. It's a position similar to to her current post as city controller, only there's a lot more cabbage involved. Chick will be overseeing the disbursement of California's $48 billion share of the federal stimulus package funds. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger showed astonishingly... [FishBowlLA]

Meet Tops Sunday Morning Competition - Posted March 26, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press was the top rated Sunday morning public affairs show last week, and was up week-to-week by more than 600,000 Total Viewers. CBS' Face the Nation was also up week-to-week. David Gregory moderated a panel that included Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Govs. Ed Rendell and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The first place... [TVNewser]

Stephanopoulos Takes on Schwarzenegger - Posted February 23, 2009
On This Week with George Stephanopoulos our Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was interviewed. How cool? Our governor is becoming famous in Washington circles! We're so exited! The video is here. Thanks to ABC for not offing html to embed the video. Grr. Anyway, Schwarzenegger is a different governor - used to talk about legislators... [FishBowlLA]

FBLA's Big Reveal - They Are Republican's Shoes - Posted November 25, 2008
By and overwhelming majority our readers guessed that the photo we posted of the USC Politico.com conference panelist's footwear HAD to be democrats. Of our readers that guessed 47% said that they were democrats. There was a tie at 26% as to whether they were republicans or journalism students. Nope. Republicans. All... [FishBowlLA]

Harvey Milk Still Lives: Gay Marriage Law May Be Up To Supreme Court - Posted November 21, 2008
Maybe Harvey Milk is having an effect after all. The gay San Francisco supervisor, who was assassinated some 30 years ago by a disgruntled fellow pol, bitterly fought for gay rights and would probably never have rested in the topsy-turvy fight against Proposition 8. Now the subject of a Gus Van Sant film,... [FishBowlLA]

Schwarzenegger Corrals Rob Lowe For Chinese/Anglo Summit - Posted November 19, 2008
California Governor and resident superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger nabbed actor Rob Lowe, who had done some stumping for Schwarzenegger during the recall back in 2003, to help egg on Chinese/American relations at the Governor's summit on climate change, the L.A. Times reports. "I thought it was really special that the Chinese were coming,"... [FishBowlLA]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted November 14, 2008
Meet the Press: Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), BP Capital Management founder/chair T. Boone Pickens and a roundtable with New York Times' Tom Friedman, BBC's Katty Kay, NBC's Andrea Mitchell and PBS' Tavis Smiley. Face the Nation: Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Newt Gingrich and Gov.... [FishBowlDC]

Gavin Newsom Says No to 8...and That's About All He's Said No To - Posted November 13, 2008
We're going to go out on a limb and say we think San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom might be planning to run for something. Yeah, it was the exploratory committee that tipped us off...that and this video. We think Newsom and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa can have a slut off to see who... [FishBowlLA]

Schwarzenegger Is Happy About One Thing -- Peace In The Bedroom - Posted November 10, 2008
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's party might have been clobbered by President-elect Barack Obama's Democrats, but the Terminator tells CNN's John King he's happy about one thing -- his life is better in the bedroom. Just days after Schwarzenegger announced his support of Republican Presidential nominee John McCain, his wife Maria Shriver, an... [FishBowlLA]

2008 Over, But Who's Next For Republicans? - Posted November 9, 2008
The election is only five days gone, but the Republicans (if you can ever believe anything that AOL posts) are already huddling to find a candidate to challenge Barack in 2012. A few names near the top of their list include Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich (remember him?) and... [FishBowlLA]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted November 7, 2008
Meet the Press: Obama-Biden transition team co-chair Valerie Jarrett, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) and a roundtable with White House historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Chicago Sun-Times' Mary Mitchell. Face the Nation: Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, New York Times' David Brooks and Politico's... [FishBowlDC]

Schwarzenegger Wants To 'Stop The Bleeding' - Posted November 7, 2008
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and resident Terminator, in between sobbing over pal John McCain's resounding defeat to President-elect Barack Obama and worrying about this pending 10% sales tax increase, will call for a special session of the legislature to "stop the bleeding" in state spending, along with enacting tax incentives for... [FishBowlLA]

McCain Losing Traction With Hollywood Conservatives - Posted October 30, 2008
Republican nominee John McCain may be losing traction with the arch conservatives in Hollywood, all two of them, the L.A. Times says. Long a Democratic bastion, Hollywood still has its share of right-wingers (hence the statewide election of one Arnold Schwarzenegger). Times columnnist Patrick Goldstein gives an alternative view to Hollywood's peripatetic conservatives.... [FishBowlLA]

Talking Heads' 'Once in a Lifetime' Unavailable -- Except to Oliver Stone - Posted October 11, 2008
The Talking Heads ironic, biting ballad "Once in a Lifetime" was the song we wanted for our documentaryabout the Governor of California, "Running with Arnold," last year. After striking out time after time trying to get the rights to use the song, imagine our surprise last week when we saw the... [FishBowlLA]

Siegel Goes To Terminator For Closure - Posted October 2, 2008
Rick Siegel, founder and major domo for Marathon Entertainment, has taken his battle with the legal and governmental denizens over the ability for managers to represent clients and procure employment right to the top. He's filed a diatribe of a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, breaking down his ongoing appeal with the... [FishBowlLA]

Siegel Goes To Terminator For Closure - Posted October 2, 2008
Rick Siegel, founder and major domo for Marathon Entertainment, has taken his battle with the legal and governmental denizens over the ability for managers to represent clients and procure employment right to the top. He's filed a diatribe of a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, breaking down his ongoing appeal with the... [FishBowlLA]

The Ticker: Brown, Iger, Gifford... - Posted July 31, 2008
> CNN anchor Campbell Brown will anchor, "Roads to Ruin: Why America is Falling Apart," tomorrow at 8pmET. The program looks at the nation's crumbling highways and bridges, with guests from across the country (New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger). Roland Martin fills in on CNN... [TVNewser]

The Ticker: Brown, Iger, Gifford... - Posted July 31, 2008
> CNN anchor Campbell Brown will anchor, "Roads to Ruin: Why America is Falling Apart," tomorrow at 8pmET. The program looks at the nation's crumbling highways and bridges, with guests from across the country (New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger). Roland Martin fills in on CNN... [TVNewser]

Tom Can't Cruise Away from Scientology - Posted July 31, 2008
Tom Cruise, ever the crusader for Scientological aims, is one of the targets in a new $250 million lawsuit against the "Church" filed in Florida this month. The suit involves Peter Letterese, a long-time critic of the church and names Cruise as being involved in a systematic harassment on him by... [FishBowlLA]

Tom Can't Cruise Away from Scientology - Posted July 31, 2008
Tom Cruise, ever the crusader for Scientological aims, is one of the targets in a new $250 million lawsuit against the "Church" filed in Florida this month. The suit involves Peter Letterese, a long-time critic of the church and names Cruise as being involved in a systematic harassment on him by... [FishBowlLA]

Slate Gets Way Too Into Predator - Posted July 9, 2008
The 1987 film Predator starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jessie Ventura - two 'actors' that went on to become governors of their states. Now another cast member of the film (former porn actor) Sonny Landham has announced his candidacy to vie for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's seat. We think Slate is... [FishBowlLA]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted June 23, 2008
Paradise Found: Gregory Rodriguez writes a sweet valentine of a column about why we all love and hate Los Angeles ... all with nary a mention of traffic or bleach bottles! Quite a nice feat of non-cliched editorializing. Cruisin' For a Bruisin': Scott Collins describes Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's response to Hollywood's woes... [FishBowlLA]

Schawarzenegger's Deputy Chief of Staff Leaves for Mercury Public Affairs - Posted February 11, 2008
Is there a problem in the House of Arnold? The Governator's Deputy Chief of Staff and Communications Director, Adam Mendelsohn, has defected -- joining another former Arnold strategist -- for a PR firm. For our PR readers who claim we don't cover them enough:... [FishBowlLA]

"Running With Arnold'' Runs Home With A Win - Posted October 8, 2007
Local journo-cum-filmmaker (and occasional fishie) Dan Cox took home the prize for Best Documentary this weekend at the Zurich Film Festival for his pic Running With Arnold The pic criticizes the policies and ... well, everything, of California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger, which isn't a hard sell in Switzerland. At one screening,... [FishBowlLA]

Governator To Keynote Newsweek Conference - Posted April 6, 2007
Just in: New York — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be the keynote speaker at Newsweek's Global Environmental Leadership conference on Wednesday, April 11 at Georgetown University. The conference is part of Newsweek's Leadership in the 21st Century series. "We are very pleased to have Gov. Schwarzenegger keynote our environmental leadership conference,"... [FishBowlNY]

Governator Goes Green - Posted March 19, 2007
Another globally-warmed day, another consumer magazine — this time Outside — devotes an issue to the oh-so-trendy "green revolution." In a green twist, Outside went with California actor-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, bumping the popular cover choice for all things environmental, Al Gore, off its cover. The magazine is donating $1 of each newsstand... [FishBowlNY]