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Jay Leno reveals final “Tonight Show” guests
Hack comedian Jay Leno, America’s top-rated TV host, will bow out of his 17-year stint on “The Tonight Show” on May 29 in the company of his successor Conan O’Brien and singer James Taylor. Leno, 59, also promised “something really out of the left field” for his last “Tonight Show” before going on to launch a new prime-time chat and comedy show in the fall. Actor Mel Gibson, comedian Billy Crystal, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and rocker Prince will be among the guests in Leno’s final week.
Digital Schwarzenegger set for McG’s Terminator
Turns out Schwarzenegger has been secretly working with helmer McG and the effects team to reprise his signature role … without lifting a finger. A body-cast mold of Schwarzenegger, created when he first appeared as the muscle-ripped cyborg, provided the basis for a digital-effects version of his famous character. The figure appears in “Terminator Salvation” as a living, breathing actor. Schwarzenegger viewed the resulting footage and gave his go-ahead just in time for McG to include the footage before the helmer completes his cut of the movie. Warners first screens the pic in early May and opens it May 21. – from Variety
Here’s what Arnie said previously, via AICN:
Right now, they’re looking at the technology and see if it is possible to create a technology where they can use my image in the film without me actually filming, because I made it clear I don’t have the time… and if they shoot outside the state, I would not participate… But I would be willing to be in the movie if they get the technology together. We have a great relationship with the people making the movie.. McG is the director, he’s a terrific talented guy. I’m going to be at the premiere, I told him I want to be as supportive as possible.
I think that within the next week or so, we will see if they are technologically able to do that. It’s terrific because they basically take technology out of Terminator 1 and use that walk of mine, and somehow bring it in… it’s just a brief scene, where we see one of the leads run into a room and he sees the future terminators because it’s kind of a prequel… then he gets thrown around, then he goes in another room and there’s other terminators, so there’s supposed to be all these new terminators. I think it’s cool to continue on with the franchise, and in case I want to jump over again and get into the acting when we’re through here.
So he hasn’t had to do a single thing! The body cast has just been sitting around for 25 years and was just pulled out of storage someplace. I hope he didn’t charge them too much for the privilege of using his likeness. I suppose Roland Kickinger provided motion capture, or an on-set torso for the acting Arnie to be pasted over…? – from Slashfilm
Nazi art loot handed back
Two renaissance oil paintings taken from a Jewish family by the Nazis have been returned in a ceremony attended by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The 16th-century works – a portrait of a man with a book believed to be painted by Venetian artist Giovanni Cariani and a portrait of a nobleman attributed to the school of Venetian master Jacopo Tintoretto – were handed back to the grandchildren of the Berlin couple who were forced to sell them in 1935. The paintings have been on display as part of a state-owned collection in California for decades. They belonged to Jakob and Rosa Oppenheimer, two art dealers who were forced to liquidate their Berlin gallery following Nazi demands that Jewish citizens report their assets to the government. Jakob Oppenheimer died in 1941 in France, where the couple had fled, and his wife later died at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
Governor Schwarzenegger, who attended the handback ceremony, said the theft of the Oppenheimer’s paintings was “the beginning of far greater offences against the innocent and against humanity” by the Nazis, adding that “a wrong cannot be fully righted when the victims have long since passed away.”
The return of the paintings to two Oppenheimer grandchildren, 73-year-old Peter Bloch of Florida and 73-year-old Inge Blackshear of Argentina, was the United States’ 25th settlement involving repatriation of artwork taken from Jews by the Nazis, according to Erik Ledbetter, director of international programs and ethics at the American Association of Museums.
The paintings were spotted by Eva Sterzing, the family’s Paris-based lawyer who saw a 1976 pamphlet featuring artwork at the castle built by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. Museum officials were reviewing the collection in 2007 when they were contacted about a possible claim.
Hoyt Fields, director of the Hearst Castle museum, said three paintings were purchased in 1935 from the I S Goldschmidt Gallery in Berlin. He said Hearst was probably unaware of their origin.
- via the Telegraph
Arnold Talks About His Terminator and Expendables Cameos
From The Arnold Fans:
“As I said to the director when they began that I wish them the best of luck, that I’m happy that they move forward with the franchise, I am very happy with where I am with my profession as the governor and they should try to find a way of doing a story that does not include me at all, not even one single shot in it. I don’t believe in that. To kind of have them go out and promote the movie and say you know Arnold is in the movie and everyone thinks that I’m the Terminator and in fact you only see one second of me in there and so I don’t think that’s the right thing to do. And you know that’s the danger of that, and that’s why I feel reluctant to be part of the movie in the first place. So it doesn’t get promoted that way.”
“Naturally when [Sly] asked me if I would do a cameo, which will just be something quick, like I walk out of a hotel or out of a office building and he will walk up and we will bump into each other and there will be some mumbling and then we will walk off. So it will be something very simple, that will be again, just a cameo, so that’s what we’re going to do. I promised him I’d do that and I’m looking forward to that.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger IS Expendable
Here’s news from Harry’s Knowles….
Hey folks, Harry here… Just got off the phone with… ahem “my source” ahem… who let me know that Arnold Schwarzeggar is going to be playing Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar in THE EXPENDABLES. He will be shooting for one day, and it seems that the Gov and Sly’s character Barney Ross have some history back when the Gov was shooting CONAN THE BARBARIAN! – from AICN
California budget crisis continues with stalemate
Da governator is having issues. Watch for this to remain ugly.
Despite a long night of frantic negotiations, legislative leaders are still struggling to find enough Republican votes to pass a bill that would close California’s $42 billion budget gap and end 102 days of partisan gridlock. Only a single Republican, Senate Minority Leader Dave Cogdill, voted for the budget bill when it came up in the Senate Saturday evening, while state Sen. Roy Ashburn, R-Bakersfield, did not vote. Senate leaders left the bill open for possible vote changes, but it will only pass if Cogdill can somehow find two more GOP votes. – from SFgate.com
California’s Senate halted a middle- of-the-night vote on a $40 billion package of tax increases, spending cuts and borrowing aimed at a closing a record deficit, after the plan fell one vote short needed for passage. Senate Democrats used a procedural motion to suspend balloting while Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senate leaders worked behind closed doors to secure an additional Republican approval. Lawmakers adjourned shortly after 10 a.m. Sacramento time after meeting through the night. They were to reconvene in the early afternoon. – From bloomberg.com
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tried Sunday to salvage a proposal to close California’s $42 billion deficit after an all-night legislative session failed to produce a new budget. The governor and legislative leaders from both parties warned that California faces insolvency unless the Legislature enacts a midyear budget fix. Blame for the inaction was fixed on the state Senate, where Republicans were refusing to put up the three votes necessary to reach the required two-thirds majority. The Assembly appeared ready to pass the mix of deep spending cuts and tax increases but was awaiting signals that the Senate would do the same. – From AP
Judge allows Schwarzenegger to furlough workers
A state court has ordered government officials to immediately implement Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s executive order requiring state employees take two days off without pay each month, denying claims by unions and the state controller that the order is illegal. The decision by Sacramento Superior Court Patrick Marlette clears the way for 238,000 state employees to be furloughed on the first and third Fridays of each month starting Feb. 6. Marlette said in his ruling that the governor has the authority to implement such cuts during an emergency. – From LA Times
A Sacramento County Superior Court judge on Thursday gave Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a victory in his attempt to deal with California’s budget deficit, ruling that he has authority to furlough tens of thousands of state workers. The order forcing government employees to take off two days a month without pay is scheduled to start Feb. 6. It would apply to 238,000 workers, although many of those would be exempt. – From SFgate.com
The ruling means state employees will be taking unpaid leave on the first and third Fridays of each month, starting next week. The Times says the furloughs equate to a 9% pay cut and will save the state $1.3 billion through June 30, 2010. The bad news comes in a state already promising to issue IOUs instead of state income tax refunds starting next week. – From USA Today
California is Broke!
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said California’s budget deficit has widened by another $3.6 billion in just the past few weeks amid a worsening economy, and that the total shortfall of an estimated $14.8 billion will keep climbing until the state legislature acts. – from WSJ
California’s budget crisis is growing worse as its shortfall for its current fiscal year has increased to an estimated $14.8 billion from a previously estimated $11.2 billion, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Wednesday. – from Reuters
California lawmakers just got a Henry Paulson-like ultimatum from state officials: If they don’t act, the state could be forced to suspend road, bridge, and other public-works projects as early as next week. Come March, California will be out of cash for even day-to-day operations.
A confluence of the national recession and years of legislative budget games is squeezing the Golden State as never before. Although it’s not the largest budget gap the state has ever faced, this time it will be harder for California to get help from private lenders. Standard & Poor’s now ranks it lower than any other state except Louisiana, which shares the same rating.
The question is: Will lawmakers finally make the tough budget decisions they’ve put off for so long?
“Because California does have a perennial budget crisis, it’s very easy to fall into the ‘boy who cried wolf’ syndrome,” says Dan Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California. “This time the sky is really falling.” – from Yahoo