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Arnold Schwarzenegger to host heroes and villains special
Monday April 14, 2003
LOS ANGELES (AP) Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has played robots
both killer and kindly, has agreed to host an upcoming TV special
about the top 100 heroes and villains of the screen.
An American Film Institute poll asked voters to choose among 400
nominated characters from American film history and decide which
should be considered wicked or virtuous.
Schwarzenegger's T-800 killer robot is nominated twice, once for
the attacking character he played in 1984's original ``The
Terminator,'' and again for 1991's ``Terminator 2: Judgment Day,''
in which the android he played was a protector.
The show is scheduled for June 3 on CBS and will feature
interviews with actors including Kirk Douglas, Susan Sarandon,
Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper and
Christopher Reeve.
AFI has sent ballots to nearly 1,500 directors, actors, studio
executives, critics and others involved in the entertainment
industry.
Some characters are nominated en masse, such as the zombies from
1968's ``Night of the Living Dead'' and ``The Wild Bunch'' cowboys
from director Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western.
Previous AFI lists included the 100 best American films, led by
``Citizen Kane'' and the 100 funniest movies, with ``Some Like It
Hot'' at No. 1.
Jean Picker Firstenberg, the institute's director, said the
contests are designed to ``excite Americans to see movies they
haven't seen for a while or see movies they've never seen.''
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(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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