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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Pranks Venice Gym

    Arnold Schwarzenegger Pranks Venice Gym

    Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest role has come as a shock to many, especially to the members of a Gold’s Gym location in Venice, Ca. The 66-year-young actor, bodybuilder, and politician donned a wig and walrus-style mustache to go undercover as “Howard,” a regional manager for the fitness chain, in order to raise awareness and funds for After-School All-Stars, a nationwide program that provides free mentorship, homework help, tutoring, and other activities to students from low-income families.

    It was hit-or-miss whether gymrats recognized Arnold by sight, but most—though, surprisingly, not all—recognized him once he spoke. One customer, tickled by the ruse, wouldn’t give up. “Come on, Arnold,” he insisted. But Schwarzenegger was unflapped, insisting that he was, in fact, Howard.

    The stunt went along with a plea for donations for After-School All-Stars. Anyone who donates at least $10 through omaze.com (which is apparently raffling off a date with George Clooney for $10 a ticket, as well) will be entered into a drawing to win a chance to smoke cigars with Arnold and ride in his personal Sherman tank.

    Without further ado, here are the best lines from the gag (full video is below, and well worth your time):

    6. “Drinking water? That’s good because the body is 75% water. Keep drinking. You are not finished with the water drinking. We do everything in reps. You have done two reps of water drinking. We do everything in 10 reps, so you should do another rep of water drinking.”
    5. “You have elbows, and you have knees. So touch them. Very nice.”
    4. “Howard is my name.”
    3. Arnold: “When it burns, it grows. Remember that.” Woman: “You look familiar to me.” Arnold: “Maybe you saw me on the FBI Most Wanted list.”
    2. “Stop being a baby. This is Gold’s Gym, not a baby gym.”
    1. [While staring at pictures of himself during his glory days] “Wow. You look so good. So handsome.”

    Image via YouTube

  • Schwarzenegger and Stallone Talk Rejected Roles

    Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are in a new movie together, “Escape Plan”, which premieres on Friday. You may be thinking, “Well, it’s about time!”. I know I was. But apparently, this isn’t the first time that a movie script has tried to put the two together. According to an interview with Access Hollywood, “Escape Plan” is the first movie that isn’t in esemble format, ie “The Expedables“, to team up Stallone and Schwarzenegger. In fact, there have been several attempts, it’s just that some of them were, well, deplorable.

    “The interesting thing really, is that for decades, they’ve tried to put us together in a movie and the scripts were horrible,” Arnold told Access Hollywood at the films junket on Monday, “It was like dreadful. We could not have accepted any of that.” He continued, “One movie wanted us to be undercover agents in drag, and another movie wanted us to change from human beings to animals. So he was the dog and I was the cat and we were fighting each other. It was some comedy. It was all this ludicrous stuff.”

    Wow. I don’t know. Schwarzenegger and Stallone as drag cops? Yeah, I would watch that.

    Fortunately, the pair waited for the right time to say yes to just the right script. Arnold says of “Escape Plan”, “In this one, from the beginning, we’re together in this movie and we have this major fight scene, this entire day we shot this fight scene, different angles, close ups, wide shots. He was down, I was down, he gets punched, I get punched. It was going back and forth,” Arnold explained. “It was just a wild, wild fight scene, really well-choreographed the whole thing, but also [there were] some things that went a little bit out of control, which always is good because the camera picks up all those things, so it was really terrific working with him on this film.”

    The interview took a hilarious turn when they were asked who would come out as the victor in a real-life throwdown between the two of them.

    “We’re going to do a movie called ‘Grumpy Old Hags,’ and we’re gonna battle it out,” Sly joked.

    “He would be on top of me punching me, I‘d say, ‘Get off me, let’s go get a schnitzel,’” Arnold added.

    “We’re both pretty strong and he’s got a mean streak in him,” Sly continued.

    “We’re very competitive, so because of that, I think it would be a very interesting fight,” Arnold said.

    Interesting, indeed!

    Image via youtube

  • Samuel L Jackson Should Have Played Darth Vader

    Every now and then you stumble across a video on YouTube that should have gone viral and seen millions of views. For some reason this one didn’t even though it’s funny and downright genius. It was posted on YouTube about 2 years ago and since then has been seen around 500k times. Perhaps it was overshadowed by the Darth Schwarzenegger video posted a few month earlier. Both are great.

    The video was posted with this phrase in the description – “Get these motherf*ckin Rebels off this motherf*ckin Death Star!” 500k is impressive, but it deserves more.

    Here’s the Schwarzenegger version as well. Both are good, so might as well include this one too.

    With George Lucas’ tendency to screw with his old movies, its kind of surprising this idea didn’t come along. There is still time to change up Revenge of the Sith to have Mace Windu become Vader instead of Anakin Skywalker. Fans have already pointed out incongruities in the older trilogy and the new one, why not just go all out.

    Now is the perfect time to do it. The series is going to be re-re-released in 3D over the next few years, and you never know what Lucas will do. Never forget the addition of Hayden Christensen’s hologram at the end of Return of the Jedi, or the change that shows Han Solo shooting in retaliation, after Greedo fires first. (Because a professional bounty hunter would miss at point blank range, and Hans character really needs to be softened up. He’s a galactic badass, and the only one that can counteract Luke’s constant whining) Sorry, the Star Wars geek came out of me on that one.

    Don’t get me started on what he did to Indiana Jones.

    [h/t: moviefone]