Ah-nold's Pumped-Up Video Sales

[dArKeR]

The Terminator's back in the new-release section, perhaps for Arnold Schwarzenegger's last hurrah at video stores if he sticks to politics.

“Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” debuts on home video Tuesday, a month after Schwarzenegger won a recall campaign to replace Gray Davis as California governor. Debuting on DVD the same day is “Pumping Iron,” the 1977 bodybuilding documentary that helped establish the Austrian-born showman's likable screen persona.

Those video releases were in the works well before Schwarzenegger entered the campaign. But with the hoopla over his celebrity campaign and his inauguration just six days away, Schwarzenegger's new political career has heated up sales of his films on video.

“Anything to do with Arnold Schwarzenegger right now is going to benefit from this huge public prominence and surge in awareness,” said Cynthia Rhea, senior vice president of marketing for HBO video, which is releasing “Pumping Iron.” “I think that comes under the heading of serendipity, and we never look serendipity in the mouth.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/11/entertainment/main582935.shtml

It's just amazing to me that people can be so easily manipulated!

[1a2b3c]

1. Call me what you will

but i am going to buy the pumping iron on dvd.

[tishaLA]

2. why.....you're a

"what you will"! Dammit!

[realFedUp]

3. Do you think Ahnold terminated some of the language in it?

Since he owns the rights..