![]() ![]() I got a lot of help throughout my life and we all need help," Schwarzenegger said in the news release. "'Whenever people say to me, ‘You are the perfect description of a self-made man,' I thank them, but tell them they can call me anything they want - but not self-made. The proceeds will go toward environmental projects and the annual Austrian World Summit climate conference in Vienna, organized by the Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative. A news release from his foundation said that among the prizes is a training session with Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger was due to host a dinner and charity auction Thursday night in the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, part of a weekend of activities to mark an annual Alpine skiing competition. "The watch will likely still be auctioned tomorrow, and the Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative will properly report it, as all of Arnold’s nonprofits do," the source said Wednesday. A second credit card machine worked and the tax was paid. Officers then walked him to an ATM at the airport to withdraw cash - but the withdrawal limit was too low and the bank was closed, the source said. The source close to Schwarzenegger said he agreed to prepay any taxes on the expensive item, but couldn't find a working credit card machine. There has been no confirmation of what the next steps in the case might be. Once that's done, he can leave the customs office," he said. Her eyes brightened, she looked at him and asked, “Are you shooting 16mm film?” Arnie, knowing a little about what she was asking, said “yes,” to which she responded, “Uh uh, well, I only do 35mm."That all takes a certain amount of time. cheerleader over his body-builder friends. He sat down on the grass beside her and pretended to go to sleep, favoring the U.C.L.A. cheerleader and asked how’d she like to pose with the best body builders in the world, and that she should get to know them. It was most important to Arnold to get a tan after lunch, so he’d be at the beach scene, lying on a little patch of grass with the other body builders, like Lou Ferrigno and Eddie Guilliani, who was a great trickster by the way. Donning a former governor of California military-style shirt (with the American flag on one arm and the California state flag on the other), Arnold has sat in his office and spoken into a camera to send out very progressive messages. He’d sit at a table with all the big body builders. Over the past couple of years, Schwarzenegger has used his celebrity to try and influence some of his more conservative-leaning fans. Arnold the Oak used to get lunch at the Brown Bagger in Venice. What’s a Schwarzenegger story from the Pumping Iron days that might surprise people? But we were at the absolute beginning of a genre, making a kind of nonfiction movie novel. Today it would be different-creative liberties are routinely taken to get to the truth. Yes, I withdrew it from the 1977 Academy Awards because I did not think it was purely, strictly a documentary-a documentary in those days was more like an austere history book. ![]() Pumping Iron will play at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater on August 17 as part of a 40th anniversary series celebrating the cinema of 1977. He’s also answered a few of our questions about some of the legacies and myths that have sprung up around the film in the past 40 years. George Butler-who, alongside Charles Gaines, shot the 1974 book of the same name-has shared some candid, never-before-seen photos from Schwarzenegger’s Pumping Iron days collected in the gallery above. ![]() Both Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno would go on to become household names, and for those curious to see how an Austrian bodybuilder could conquer not only Hollywood but the world of politics too, look no further than the naked ambition, clever calculation, and titanic work ethic Schwarzenegger puts on display in Pumping Iron. In the burgeoning days of documentary filmmaking, nobody wanted to back Butler and his partner, Robert Fiore, to make a film about a niche sport starring a handsome Austrian whom no one outside the bodybuilding world had ever heard of.īut Butler and Fiore pressed, on and the rest is film history. The film was the ultimate underdog story, not because of the way the competition plays out on-screen (spoiler alert, Schwarzenegger starts the film as a bodybuilding star and ends the film an even bigger bodybuilding star), but because of the great lengths Butler went to to get it made. It’s been 40 years since the glistening, flexing biceps of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, and the rest of the giants of the professional bodybuilding scene burst into the pop culture conversation via director George Butler’s docudrama Pumping Iron. Here he is practicing on the roof of his condo. Arnold always worked on his poses and thought about competing. ![]()
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