Gov. and Mrs. Gropenator's Vanity Fair Profile..."Too Much Information"

[Crankie Avalon]

Not Much for Books, But Loves Magazines!

• Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver star in: "Too Much Information!" That's how we'd bill the exhaustive cover profile of California's governor and first lady in the January issue of Vanity Fair. He calls the Shriver family "clones" who can't even decide for themselves a favorite color. She reveals "Arnold doesn't like to read." Though groomed to favor preppy Ivy League boys like John Kerry, the Kennedy scion explains her choice to wed a bodybuilder from Austria: "I married my authentic self."

(Pause to erase that mental image . . .)

"This is what she fell in love with -- me," Schwarzenegger asserts in the magazine. "This is the way I am -- outrageous, out there. And it comes with things that are not all rosy." Like that enormous nude portrait of Arnold by LeRoy Neiman that hangs in the entrance of the family's 11,000-square-foot Brentwood mansion?

The campaign stories alleging Schwarzenegger's womanizing were "flat-out tough, painful, no doubt about it," Shriver tells Vanity Fair. But fortunately she and her husband are still "hot for each other," says the former NBC News star. Arnold, for his part, notes that "those stories came out and my poll numbers went up two points!" But he is quick to add that he learned a lesson about sexual harassment and now "would not even tell someone I like their outfit. It could go south."

Shriver also talks about how she quit NBC rather than accept a celebrity beat. "What would I be doing now? I would be on the Scott Peterson trial. Or Michael Jackson. It would have been all the time trash. How do you then explain to your kids that is what you did?" (Well, Maria, The Reliable Source tells the children: That trash pays for your iPods!)

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20807-2004Nov29.html

[elehhhhna]

1. "It would have been all the time trash." Sounds like she's picked up on

Hubby's linguistic habits.

[Lavender Brown]

2. Oh God... their poor kids

Imagine having a giant nude portrait of your dad in your house? :puke:

[cally]

3. Think about their kids...walking past a naked picture of

their father everyday. That is just strange.

On edit: We had the same thought Lavender. :-)

[FuzzySlippers]

7. I was just thinking what you two were thinking.

That is just so very wrong.

[KurtNYC]

9. Yes, really puts credence in the statement about how he has overcome

his sexual harrassment tendencies. Not!

[eek]

4. after reading this gunk it occurred to me:

y'know that "overcompensation" thing?

Anyone else think that the constant gasbagging about mr gropey/hot for maria/i'm such a stud/macho bla blabla could be a big ol' public case of the big O?

methinks the lady doth protest to much....

[AlCzervik]

5. They are both insane and icky

[terrya]

6. I don't know which is more horribly wrong:

Schwartzenegger nude...or a LE ROY NEIMAN painting of Schwartzenegger nude.

Suddenly, I don't feel like eating lunch....

[skygazer]

8. Wow, what a lovely couple

Couple of what, I'm not quite sure. Psychopaths? I mean, a nude painting of Arnie in the entry? What would Freud say about that?

[elehhhhna]

10. she "married her authentic self?" CREEEEEE-PEEEEEE!