![]() ![]() Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.And he remains the only person to receive Golden Raspberry (“Razzie”) nominations for Worst Actor, Worst Supporting Actor and Worst Screen Couple (with himself cloned) in the same year (2000, for The 6th Day). They were assets exquisitely positioned to represent the renewed strength of Reagan’s America in the 1980s. What ought to have been limitations – his inhuman size, his extraterrestrial accent – were turned, brilliantly, into strengths. Here was a charming heroic monster who could make audiences belly-laugh while ripping out his enemies’ entrails with his bare hands. For a time, this Arnold variation was the highest paid actor in the world. The unlikely Hollywood leading man who conquered the box office, who dealt in death and kitsch quips, and who, as Robin Williams put it, spoke “less dialogue than any actor, except maybe Lassie”. The village kid who conquered bodybuilding with a 57” chest, a 34” waist, 28½” thighs, 20” calves and a competition weight of 235lbs. In Be Useful Schwarzenegger divides his preposterous life into four distinct acts. Now hear it as Schwarzenegger said it with a rural, guttural Danubian inflection. If that darkness could speak, what would it say? Think about the most famous zinger in the Schwarzenegger cannon, from The Terminator (1984): “I’ll be back.” Say that line in an American accent. There’s an inarticulate abyssal darkness in him that fellow action-star rivals like Bruce Willis or Sly Stallone never possessed. There’s something about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sharkily narrow eyes, which menace even when they are trying to smile. Nor is it that the etymology of “Arnold” is “eagle power”, and nor is it that his father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, was a military policeman who swept up behind the German war machine as it blitzkrieged through Poland, France and the Soviet Union, where his war ended with a wound at Leningrad. It’s not merely the fact that at his bodybuilding peak he looked hideous, like an Arno Breker statue of an Übermensch, marbled into the Reich Chancellery. Readers of Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life may be struck by an intrusive thought: Schwarzenegger would have played a terrific Nazi. Through the purest force of will you achieve notoriety, then high office, and eventually, after great struggle, a unique place in history. You realise you are a special boy, and that you have a powerful vision. Your father is an unpleasant minor bureaucratic cog with a drinking problem. You were born in a lower provincial Austrian backwater. ![]()
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