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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 10:07 AM
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A British take on Arnie's triumph - CBC Documentary - 9pm
When Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California recently, most Canadians just shrugged. We took the view that they're just so weird down there.

The Canadian media made some desultory attempts to figure out what the heck had happened, but there was an air of dismayed disinterest about it all. Besides, if Californians want to be bamboozled, that's their problem.

However, the Brits were transfixed by it. While the British media tends toward ostentatious disdain for the more outrageous aspects of American popular culture, most of its members are, in fact, galvanized by it. This is good. Sometimes, the British media are very, very good at documenting the sheer weirdness of the United States. They bring a fresh eye -- a perspective that is skeptical, but not entirely cynical.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20031204/DOYLE04GTA/TPEntertainment/TopStories
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alexwcovington Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 10:10 AM
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1. I was thinking about watching it
This is why I'm glad to have the CBC :)
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