ACTING GOVERNOR
Maybe he wants to be Arnold. Texas Governor Rick Perry has taken up acting. From the Dallas Morning News report:
Tuesday, production trucks lined up outside the white antebellum mansion where Mr. Perry pretended to be the governor for the cameras in a place where, any other day, he actually is the governor.
Perry, who looks sort of like an even-more-pretty-boy version of actor Chris Noth, has a few lines in a Tommy Lee Jones movie set in Texas. "With his Hollywood looks, he was typecast to play the governor of the great state of Texas," a spokeswoman told the News.
My take on politicians' looks: Male politicians have to be good looking. Female politicians just have to be polished--in control of their appearance. I can't think of any female politicians as classically pretty as Perry is handsome. Nobody would take them seriously.