Matt McConaughey?

[DeusxMac]

deja vu
https://forums.macresource.com/read.php?...sg-2610850

[mrbigstuff]

Speedy wrote:
He simply isn’t going to take the pay cut.

Doesn't apply. See: Arnold Schwarzenegger

[DeusxMac]

sekker wrote:
As someone who lived through the birth of the modern celebrity politician movement (Jesse Ventura as Governor of Minnesota)...

I'd propose that Reagan was the birth of "modern" celebrity politician movement. But before Reagan there were other actors:

Helen Gahagan Douglas - Member U.S. House of Representatives, January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1951
An American actress and politician

John Davis Lodge - Governor of Connecticut, January 3, 1951 – January 5, 1955
An American movie actor, lawyer, politician, and diplomat.

George Murphy - United States Senator from California, January 1, 1965 – January 2, 1971
Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952.

And to lesser degrees, many others - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...oliticians

Also, sports stars who went into politics goes way back, long before Ventura. Just a few predating Ventura:
- Bill Bradley
- Jim Bunning
- Jack Kemp

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...oliticians

[Blankity Blank]

DeusxMac wrote:

Also, sports stars who went into politics goes way back, long before Ventura. Just a few predating Ventura:
- Bill Bradley
- Jim Bunning
- Jack Kemp

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...oliticians

Bradley kind of had the education thing down. Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University; graduate degree in politics, philosophy and economics. Graduated from Princeton University in 1965 with a degree with honors in American history.

Kemp had read a book or two also. Postgraduate studies in economics at Long Beach State University and California Western University in San Diego.

Bunning had a BA in economics and reportedly played a big role in the success of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Served as the pension rep for the American League players and was a member of the union's executive board.

[btfc]

Anyone But Abbott!

[DeusxMac]

Blankity Blank wrote:
[quote=DeusxMac]

Also, sports stars who went into politics goes way back, long before Ventura. Just a few predating Ventura:
- Bill Bradley
- Jim Bunning
- Jack Kemp

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...oliticians

Bradley kind of had the education thing down. Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University; graduate degree in politics, philosophy and economics. Graduated from Princeton University in 1965 with a degree with honors in American history.

Kemp had read a book or two also. Postgraduate studies in economics at Long Beach State University and California Western University in San Diego.

Bunning had a BA in economics and reportedly played a big role in the success of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Served as the pension rep for the American League players and was a member of the union's executive board.
Yes, but they DID have major name recognition already BECAUSE of their former sports successes, BEFORE they went into politics. They were celebrities first.

[Lux Interior]

btfc wrote:
Anyone But Abbott!

Costello, then?

[SteveG]

Tom Lehrer pays tribute to George Murphy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjNzb-__uaU (1965)

During the last election we had a good deal
Of fun back east following your senatorial
Contest out here. I'm from Massachusetts,
And I feel that we have a certain right to
Gloat over the other states because Massachusetts
Is after all the only state with three senators.
Anyway, here's a salute to your new junior senator:
Hollywood's often tried to mix
Show business with politics
From Helen Gahagan
To Ronald Reagan?
But Mr. Murphy is the star
Who's done the best by far.
Oh, gee, it's great!
At last we've got a senator who can really sing and dance.
We can't expect America to win against its foes
With no one in the Senate who can really tap his toes.
The movies that you've seen
On your television screen
Show his legislative talents at a glance.
Should Americans pick crops? George says "No",
'Cause no one but a Mexican would stoop so low.
And after all, even in Egypt, the pharaohs
Had to import Hebrew braceros.
Think of all the musicals we have in store.
Imagine: Broadway Melody of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Yes, now that he's a Senator, he's really got the chance
To give the public a song and dance!

[bfd]

One thing that the Governator still freely admits is just how ill-prepared he was for Sacramento, and just how difficult he found it to get anything accomplished.

If you're not a political power in a political state like California (or Texas for that matter), you'll get eaten alive.

[vision63]

bfd wrote:
One thing that the Governator still freely admits is just how ill-prepared he was for Sacramento, and just how difficult he found it to get anything accomplished.

If you're not a political power in a political state like California (or Texas for that matter), you'll get eaten alive.

As one of his first big critics, I can say he found it difficult to be what he felt was Republican, when Republicanism shifted to so many other things. He basically was a moderate. I would say more of a Democrat than a Republican. I think his legacy will be in his appointees to the courts and other offices. He appointed a "liberal Republican," Abel Maldonado who was hated by his own party as Lt Governor. In the end it didn't work out so well for Abel.