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The LA Weekly's Nikki Finke offers "props" (her word, not ours) to newly anointed Schwarzenegger arch-nemesis Warren Beatty, but not without splashing the "geriatric" and "jowly"actor with a cupful or two of her signature haterade, just for good measure:

After years of hiding in his Mulholland mansion, heckling candidates from the sidelines and hedging on questions about running for public office, the has-been actor became the can-do campaigner against Arnold’s power grab in Tuesday’s uglier-than-most election. Props for being the anti-prop provocateur, Warren. I didn’t think you had it in you to move from merely gabbing about the Governator and grabbing media attention to grappling mano a mano with Schwarzenegger and gatecrashing his partisan events.


There were a lot of places I expected to find Beatty during this time (the Grill, Dr. Arnie Klein’s office, West Hollywood’s Pleasure Chest), but none surprised me more than when he showed up as part of the “Truth Squad” nurses, teachers and firefighters brigade shadowing Schwarzenegger’s shameless shilling in Anaheim, San Diego and Riverside this past weekend. That is, if you don’t count my bedroom, where Warren’s silky voice surprised the heck out of me coming from my radio for an anti-Arnold spot he recorded for the California Nurses Association, or my answering machine for a widely distributed get-out-the-vote telephone message. What was most shocking was how he stumped in full view of the merciless news cameras, the inspiration for “He’s So Vain” putting himself on physical display, even though that once-perfect face is now geriatric and jowly, his stomach can’t hide a bulging gut, and he moves stiffly on spindly legs.

With that Pleasure Chest crack, we were afraid that a Viagra joke was forthcoming, but were relieved to find that Finke's assessment of Beatty's physicality was limited to body parts we might see on camera at a rally. It's a good thing, too, because it's way too early in the day for us to handle phrases like "the tumescent sexagenarian" or "the rock-hard Bulworth star."