Thursday, 23. January 2003

Schwarzenegger Isnt Buying It


t's a small photo, the size of a thumbprint, all but lost amid the images of minivans and trucks and color headlines blaring "33-Hour Month-End Countdown!"

But for actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the unauthorized use of his picture in a newspaper ad for an Ohio car dealership was serious enough to warrant a multimillion-dollar lawsuit.

The star of the "Terminator" movies and expected Republican gubernatorial candidate in 2006 is demanding that Fred Martin Motor Co. and its ad agency pay him more than $20 million for using his photo to hawk cars in an advertisement that ran in the Akron Beacon Journal.

¬> Los Angeles Times

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