By Staff 10/17/06 8:30am

Tuesday: Brooklyn Oil, the Green Terminator, Naked Maggie?


Arnold salutes NYC? [Deider]

  • Schwarzenegger has taken Mayor Bloomberg into his warm, shapely bosom–but it’s Governor Pataki that Arnold takes to see Battery Park City’s Solaire, the green 27-story tower finished in 2003. (NY Times)
  • The Brooklyn Paper officially apologizes for their semi-nude photo of Maggie Gyllenhaal: “Its placement on Page One was Read More

    • By Staff, Staff 1/07/05 10:11am

    Politics

    WSJ: Pataki’s AWOL

    Many Albany observers are under the impression that George Pataki has decided to sacrifice his local popularity to court the national Conservative movement.

    If that’s the plan, it isn’t working very well. Here’s the conclusion of an editorial comparing Pataki with Governor Arnold in today’s Wall Street Journal:

    “Come to think of it, Mr. Schwarzenegger Read More

    By Rex Reed 7/12/04 12:00am

    Unlovely De-Lovely Mangles Porter

    I had high hopes that De-Lovely would relieve the tedium of a summer plagued by spider men, Stepford wives, black men in reverse-insult whiteface, dodgeball violence and Jackie Chan in a helium balloon. Let’s face it, a whole movie about the tortured life and enduring genius of the great Cole Porter, with glamorous settings, elegant Read More

    By Bruce Feirstein 11/17/03 12:00am

    The Morning After: Let’s Win One For the Groper

    They say trends start in the West. Beyond the recall, the fires and the celebrity murder trials, there’s a new piece of gubernatorial jurisprudence you may wish to put on your radar screen:

    According to an A.P. report on Nov. 6, the Governor-elect-that would be Arnold Schwarzenegger-announced that he’s going to hire a private Read More

    By Robert Sam Anson 10/20/03 12:00am

    Reagan as Governor Provided Blueprint For Schwarzenegger

    Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power , by Lou Cannon. Public Affairs, 579 pages, $30.

    Anyone who ever covered Ronald Reagan-O.K., maybe not every reporter, but lots of them, and more hard-bitten ones than you’d think-has a story about when they realized that, however screwy his opinions could be (like the assertion that trees cause Read More

    By Bruce Feirstein 10/13/03 12:00am

    Arnold Über Alles! Taking the State By Storm

    Arnold, the first hundred days. Was it a dream, or a nightmare? I’ll let you be the judge.

    Oct. 8, 2003. Midnight. Crickets. The rustle of wind. Before all the votes are even counted, before the winner has been officially declared- bam! -a skylight shatters in Sacramento, as Arnold and a half-dozen nameless and faceless Read More