Schwarzenegger

I hate to sound naive, but I was disappointed in Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest performance -- as the philandering former governor of California, seeking redemption through a new autobiography, who sits for an interview with CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl. In Schwarzenegger's appearance on “60 Minutes” Sunday night, he had an opportunity to offer contrition for his sins.  And, here, I'm only talking about his sins against his long-suffering estranged wife, Maria Shriver.  I'm not even talking about the allegations of Schwarzenegger having groped more than a dozen women over the years who did not want his attention and were humiliated by it. Instead, he offered up tight-lipped, terse, even matter-of-fact responses to questions about his colossal betrayal of his wife.  He admitted he had other affairs in addition to the affair with the family housekeeper with whom he fathered a son around the same time that he fathered his fourth child with Shriver.

Total Recall My Unbelievably True Life Story Arnold Schwarzenegger Simon & Schuster: 656 pp., $35 It's much too early to predict the nature of Arnold Schwarzenegger's final Wikipedia entry, much less his legacy. The former body-builder-turned-action-movie-star-turned-California-governor is still very much alive, having just started a new think tank at USC. And Americans have an endearing and frustrating habit of nostalgic reconsideration, especially when it comes to movie stars and politicians.

  SACRAMENTO - Arnold Schwarzenegger said he realized he was the father of his housekeeper's child when the boy reached age 7 or 8 and the resemblance became apparent. Although he never discussed the matter with the boy's mother, who kept the child's paternity secret while continuing to work in the home of Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, he began secretly sending the woman extra money to help care for his son. Those details, revealed during an interview with CBS News' Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes" on Sunday, were the former governor's first public comments on the affair that grabbed headlines and destroyed his marriage last year.

Brigitte Nielsen told the world last year, and now we know it to be true: She had an affair with Arnold Schwarzenegger during the filming of the 1985 movie "Red Sonja," at a time when he was already living with Maria Shriver. Schwarzenegger 'fessed up to a "hot affair" with the actress and former model in his new memoir, "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story," which came out Monday. The 65-year-old wrote that he knew the fling with Nielsen wouldn't last, according to the Associated Press, and that it actually made him realize that he wanted to marry Shriver.

Arnold Schwarzenegger had an affair. Arnold Schwarzenegger had a baby from the affair. Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't tell his wife about the baby for more than a decade. "So you lied" to wife Maria Shriver, Lesley Stahl asked him for the upcoming edition of "60 Minutes. " "You can say that," the former governator replied. Let's just let that sit there and jell for a second. Schwarzenegger, who sat for the interview in connection with a tell-all memoir he's written, then proceeded to call the affair "the stupidest thing I've done in the whole relationship.

Charisma counts. Former President Clinton proved it at the Democratic National Convention, and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proved it Monday at USC. He received a standing ovation as he stepped onto the stage in an auditorium on campus for the start of a daylong symposium — the inaugural session of the augustly named USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy. Gone was any evidence of the disaffection that he had accrued after seven years as governor. Gone was the shadow cast for his commuting the murder sentence of a friend's son. Gone was the outrage over the news last year of his affair — and fathering a child — with a member of his household staff.

In 2011, Arnold Schwarzenegger blew up his marriage to Maria Shriver when he admitted fathering a child with their housekeeper. Now he's admitting to the rest of the world how he got busted. Arnold, it seems, agreed to go to couples counseling, he writes in an upcoming tell-all autobiography, a copy of which was obtained by the New York Daily News . It was a day after he was out as California's governor in January 2011, and he thought the point was to navigate their transition from public to private life.

SACRAMENTO - He's gone from movie star to governor and back again, and now Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for politicians in Sacramento and Washington: Both capitals could learn a thing or two from Hollywood. The entertainment business fosters innovation, risk-taking, boldness - a recipe for success, he says, that political institutions stifle. "You can get the smartest people in the world," Schwarzenegger said in an interview Monday, "but … if you don't have courage, you will not be able to make a movie, you will not be successful in serving the people or getting things done in the world.

A judge in Sacramento ruled Friday that former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did not violate the law when he reduced the prison sentence of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez's son for the 2008 stabbing death of a San Diego college student. San Diego County Dist. Atty. Bonnie Dumanis had filed suit to have the sentence reduction overturned, arguing that Schwarzenegger violated the law by not notifying prosecutors or victims' families while he was considering the reduction. "Today's ruling will not deter our pursuit of justice on behalf of the victims' families," Dumanis said late Friday, "and our office will file an appeal.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - In 2005, California voters spanked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, rejecting a series of ballot measures he had promoted to change state government and shake up the public education system. A year later, he won reelection in a blowout. No two campaigns are ever alike. Indeed, Schwarzenegger took office under remarkable circumstances - a snap recall election - and may be remembered as much for his shtick (calling balky lawmakers “girlie-men,” for instance) as anything he accomplished in Sacramento.