Hollywood Moguls Voting a Split Ticket

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They Adore Ahnuld at The Box Office but May Balk at the Ballot Box

LOS ANGELES -- The candidacy of Arnold Schwarzenegger has left the tanned and tucked Brahmins of the Hollywood elite in a bit of a quandary.

"I'm going to have to give him some money," said Tom Pollock, a longtime Democrat who once ran Universal Pictures, where Schwarzenegger made some of his blockbusters. "I'm hoping to get away with two grand." As for voting for the Terminator, Pollock won't say. "He once told me he was going to leave the party over what the Republicans did to Clinton. . . . We'll see."

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"I think he's a joke," said Sylvia Desrochers, a publicist for some of Hollywood's younger actors and directors, such as Sofia Coppola. She said she was speaking for herself. "I'm angry he's running. The recall would've been a media circus anyway, but it's worse now. I feel like he's doing this because his career is struggling. I don't take it seriously. I don't know if he knows how our government works."

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"He has a life of his own, he's uncontrollable, and he's the Republican candidate. Now all these left-wing liberals are biting their lips and saying: What did we create?"

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1. I'm glad he got this in there!

"He once told me he was going to leave the party over what the Republicans did to Clinton. . . . We'll see."