I'm reading "Mr. America - The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon" by John D Fair, a scholarly history of the Mr. America contest, and this humorous story of a fight Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ken Sprague (one time owner of Gold's Gym, and sometime porn actor/producer) had over some misused posing footage popped up -
" Another occurrence relating to Sprague’s colorful career, conveyed in Carter’s novel, involved Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose posing footage was included in a porno production called Going Down. When Arnold heard that it was playing to packed houses, he was livid. As his girlfriend Barbara Outland (Baker) relates in her memoir: “When I arrived home one winter afternoon, I heard Arnold screaming into the phone, ‘You fucking prick! How dare you screw me like dis! I’ll have your ass, you Gott-damn cock-sucker. Jayzeus Kreest, you fucked me over, and now you are fucked, believe me!’ . . . He slammed down the phone, screaming, ‘Dat fucking asshole put my posing routine in his supposed documentary—a movie where guys are jacking off while watching me pose. Dat bastard!’”
Upon visiting the theater in North Hollywood where the supposed bodybuilding documentary was being shown, Outland expressed concern about what that kind of exposure would do to Arnold’s budding film career. What she saw on the screen was “rows of actors, seated in a movie theater setting . . .groaning in self-joy over my lover.”
[Outland's description of the filmed scenes in the porno film] -
"The scene flashed to Arnold in a double biceps pose, then to the audience of men holding gay men’s Schlongs. The camera took me back to Arnold doing a full back pose, his Olympian muscles bulging and taut, and then it slipped back to rows of rapid hand and mouth movement. Then the camera flipped back to Arnold performing a side-view of glistening muscularity, and then shrunk back to ejaculating penises, shriveled in compliance under their own muscular feats. I knew some of these scumbags. They were the Bills and Dennys of our distant social life on that silver screen, sucking their way to financial gain."
Sprague insists that “it was nothing like she describes.” It was a film featuring some gym members with footage inserts from a show. “Arnold and Franco were irate,” but Joe Weider told Schwarzenegger to “just go over and settle it with” Sprague, who explained why: “Joe didn’t want to ruffle me because I owned Gold’s. So Arnold came up and said ah, we’ve got to settle this, so I said I’ll give you $50 each. Okay.” So even when Schwarzenegger was Mr. Olympia, $50 was enough to buy him off. "
