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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired October 07, 2003 - 05:46   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now, though, it's time to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Let's head live to London and Becky Anderson.
And I can only guess what's making the front pages over there.

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's a huge story out here today as well. The ticker tape parade, of course, in Sacramento and guess who that is? Oh I know you can guess it. As you were talking about it slightly early, this is a big story around the world. Al- Arabiya, Al Jazeera, all in Los Angeles, our very own Richard Quest, of course, there for CNN International as well. And of course the front page is full of this story today. And of course we know exactly who that is.

A great cartoon in "The Independent" today. I don't know if you can see it, but let me -- let me read it out to you. Here's Arnie, of course, two badges. One says "Total Recall." The other says "Arnie For Governator." And it says don't worry, California, this is not a Hitler salute. I have just been groping a very tall woman, he says. That's...

COSTELLO: That's nasty.

ANDERSON: The -- I mean these cartoonists get away with everything, don't they? It's quite unbelievable. You could never write things like that, obviously, on the -- on the headlines, nor in the editorials in these British papers, but they really do do a good job with these cartoons.

COSTELLO: Well, Becky,...

ANDERSON: As we have been saying, it really is an enormous story. Go on.

COSTELLO: Yes, but, Becky, why? Why are people so interested over there about a California race?

ANDERSON: Let me tell you why, because I think we're -- more than anything, we are bemused by the whole idea. I think we remember Ronnie Reagan as probably the last -- the last big sort of actor/governor that we remember. And I think to a certain extent as it -- even though it's a very big story, of course, fizzle sticks (ph), economy and the world, and we know the economy is in a terrible state at present, and that's a big story in itself. But the very notion that this guy that we have seen in these movies for -- we've grown up with this guy, and suddenly he is running for governor. I don't know whether it, to a certain extent, ridicules the election process and the whole idea that somebody like Arnie Schwarzenegger can actually go and run for governor or whether we really think this is a very big story. The editorial writers can't work that out at present. They can't work out what the European public really thinks of this story and nor can we as journalists. It's really quite difficult.

COSTELLO: Well,...

ANDERSON: So I'm going to leave it as a very sort of bemused attitude. It's incredible.

COSTELLO: I like that word bemused. We're bemused as well.

ANDERSON: It really is a huge story out here.

COSTELLO: Would something like that happen in Britain?

ANDERSON: Very difficult to say. I'd hate to go down that route. I mean you know we have got Tony Blair here at present, and some people call him an actor at present. I mean (UNINTELLIGIBLE) suggested it's all been "True Lies," as one of Arnie's movies that suggest, and there's an awful lot of that around at present. So I -- probably not.

I mean I can't imagine anybody, although Glenda Jackson, of course, was a big movie actor in the 1970s, is now an MP. She's a Labor MP. She sit (ph) in 1997. She got in as one of Tony's babes, effectively, into the Tony Blair government. I can't see it happening in the U.K., but who knows? I mean I'm not going to tell you it wouldn't happen.

COSTELLO: Yes, you never know.

ANDERSON: The last story I've got today,...

COSTELLO: Quickly.

ANDERSON: ... you'd never know, there's a very nice picture on the front of "The Times" today. That is just a picture of an MRI scan and just going over the fact that the British scientists yesterday winning the Nobel Award for Medicine for his work, and fantastic work he's done, of course. Another fantastic picture. Nobel Prize for man who saw through us is the headline on that picture.

Back to you guys.

COSTELLO: Very good. Becky Anderson, live from London, many thanks.

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Aired October 7, 2003 - 05:46   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now, though, it's time to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Let's head live to London and Becky Anderson.
And I can only guess what's making the front pages over there.

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's a huge story out here today as well. The ticker tape parade, of course, in Sacramento and guess who that is? Oh I know you can guess it. As you were talking about it slightly early, this is a big story around the world. Al- Arabiya, Al Jazeera, all in Los Angeles, our very own Richard Quest, of course, there for CNN International as well. And of course the front page is full of this story today. And of course we know exactly who that is.

A great cartoon in "The Independent" today. I don't know if you can see it, but let me -- let me read it out to you. Here's Arnie, of course, two badges. One says "Total Recall." The other says "Arnie For Governator." And it says don't worry, California, this is not a Hitler salute. I have just been groping a very tall woman, he says. That's...

COSTELLO: That's nasty.

ANDERSON: The -- I mean these cartoonists get away with everything, don't they? It's quite unbelievable. You could never write things like that, obviously, on the -- on the headlines, nor in the editorials in these British papers, but they really do do a good job with these cartoons.

COSTELLO: Well, Becky,...

ANDERSON: As we have been saying, it really is an enormous story. Go on.

COSTELLO: Yes, but, Becky, why? Why are people so interested over there about a California race?

ANDERSON: Let me tell you why, because I think we're -- more than anything, we are bemused by the whole idea. I think we remember Ronnie Reagan as probably the last -- the last big sort of actor/governor that we remember. And I think to a certain extent as it -- even though it's a very big story, of course, fizzle sticks (ph), economy and the world, and we know the economy is in a terrible state at present, and that's a big story in itself. But the very notion that this guy that we have seen in these movies for -- we've grown up with this guy, and suddenly he is running for governor. I don't know whether it, to a certain extent, ridicules the election process and the whole idea that somebody like Arnie Schwarzenegger can actually go and run for governor or whether we really think this is a very big story. The editorial writers can't work that out at present. They can't work out what the European public really thinks of this story and nor can we as journalists. It's really quite difficult.

COSTELLO: Well,...

ANDERSON: So I'm going to leave it as a very sort of bemused attitude. It's incredible.

COSTELLO: I like that word bemused. We're bemused as well.

ANDERSON: It really is a huge story out here.

COSTELLO: Would something like that happen in Britain?

ANDERSON: Very difficult to say. I'd hate to go down that route. I mean you know we have got Tony Blair here at present, and some people call him an actor at present. I mean (UNINTELLIGIBLE) suggested it's all been "True Lies," as one of Arnie's movies that suggest, and there's an awful lot of that around at present. So I -- probably not.

I mean I can't imagine anybody, although Glenda Jackson, of course, was a big movie actor in the 1970s, is now an MP. She's a Labor MP. She sit (ph) in 1997. She got in as one of Tony's babes, effectively, into the Tony Blair government. I can't see it happening in the U.K., but who knows? I mean I'm not going to tell you it wouldn't happen.

COSTELLO: Yes, you never know.

ANDERSON: The last story I've got today,...

COSTELLO: Quickly.

ANDERSON: ... you'd never know, there's a very nice picture on the front of "The Times" today. That is just a picture of an MRI scan and just going over the fact that the British scientists yesterday winning the Nobel Award for Medicine for his work, and fantastic work he's done, of course. Another fantastic picture. Nobel Prize for man who saw through us is the headline on that picture.

Back to you guys.

COSTELLO: Very good. Becky Anderson, live from London, many thanks.

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