Yes!!! He may "be back"!!!

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www.pastdeadline.com reports:

You know how Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken time off from his life as a Big Action Movie Star to serve as governor of the state of California and make sure everyone here has health insurance and all of that stuff? Well, we hear from the folks who have been walking the WGA strike picket line that The Guv has floated word to his peeps to spread the message that once his last term as the state's biggest cheese ends in January 2011, he would like to resume his role as a boxoffice superstar/film icon.

A few high-profile writers of action films who wished not to be ID'd (you know how that is) were heard conferring that before the strike hit, agents were putting out feelers for material and pitches to develop projects with Schwarzenegger in mind. Nothing specific yet. All just preliminary stuff. What this means is that Arnold isn't so very interested in running for the Senate and potentially spending all of that time in boring old Washington, D.C., California/Austria boy that he is. He also still can't run for president, as we know, since he isn't a natural-born U.S. citizen. There was once talk about trying to amend the Constitution and all of that, but our forefathers put the kibosh on that idea.

Schwarzenegger's agent at William Morris, Cary Berman, was on vacation for the holidays and unavailable for comment. But we did manage to catch up with Schwarzenegger's spokesman in the governor's office, Aaron McLear, an accommodating gent who said he would run this little query past his big boss man -- and did! Take note, publicity people: this kind of thing makes us trade types really happy.

Here is what McLear had to say: "Once the governor's current term is up, he may go back to the movies, or devote energy to business, or continue working on environmental issues, or run a foundation -- or start painting!" He continued, "But the governor has decided nothing final as yet and is devoting his energy to the job of running the state."

And what about any political future beyond 2010? McLear's quote mentioned nothing about that. Was McLear aware that his statement included no political option?

"Yes," he replied.

Hmmmmm...OK then. Did we just hear Schwarzenegger's political days are likely over in a mere three years? It sounded that way.

What evidently implanted this comeback thought in Schwarzenegger's mind, it's being theorized, is the recent success of his old Planet Hollywood buds Sylvester Stallone (age 61) and Bruce Willis (age 52). Their "Rocky" and "Die Hard" sequels found sizeable audiences in 2007, seemingly against the "they're just too dang old for this" odds. Also, Ah-nold was recently seen making the rounds with Harrison Ford, who at 65 is returning to his legendary Indiana Jones role -- and apparently kicking butt like the Indy of old.

Having just turned 60 himself, Arnold has to be thinking he's chronologically primed for a similar Second Coming (as it were). He'll be a mere toddler of 63 upon departing Sacramento. And, as we've come to know, action stars never die; they just blast away.

[JasonH]

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