1. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Hulk Look

An upcoming issue of Newsweek has the following blaring headline: "The Mean Green Machine."

The magazine is referring to California's newly refurbished governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Schwarzenegger's poll numbers may actually be up because of a stylish green glow he's taken on.

Newsweek asks, "With a lime-colored bus and the hots for the 'Hydrogen Highway.' Can he ride it all the way to re-election?"

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No Hummer for this gov. Instead he's traveling in a bright green bus emblazoned with a mural of Yosemite National Park.

In the latest California Field Poll, President George W. Bush has a 28 percent approval rating, so Schwarzenegger is distancing himself from Dubya.

"We cannot wait for the United States government to get its act together on the environmental issue," Schwarzenegger told Newsweek. "We have to create our own leadership."

"We're about bringing people together," Arnold's wife Maria said. "Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Greens. We're the only state in America doing that."

To attract Republicans, Schwarzenegger has taken a strong stand against more taxation.

"I'm against new taxes. Period," Arnold declared.

This summer Schwarzenegger will showcase his Climate Action Plan, which includes a bill he's backing to cap the state's greenhouse-gas emissions.

The Left Coast Report says Arnold can go as green as he wants but Golden State liberals wouldn't accept Kermit the Frog if he ran as a Republican.

2. Senator Queen Latifah?

She's a rapper and an actress, but lately Queen Latifah looks as though she may have another career in mind.
 
Dana Owens, Queen Latifah's real name, is perhaps a bit more senatorial.

While in Washington, D.C. to endorse a National Women's Confidence Day, Queen Latifah said, "You know, maybe I'll run for Senate."

After making it in hip-hop and cinema, Queen Latifah has no problem believing she can conquer the political world.

"I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal," she explained.

The Left Coast Report wonders how the Queen of Chappaqua feels about a royal rival.

3. The Curse of 'The Omen'

In what is shaping up to be a year of the remake, a new version of the 1976 horror flick, "The Omen," arrived with a flourish on 06/06/06.

The film is about an American official who discovers that his kid is a little devil for real.

Actor Pete Postlethwaite, who plays Father Brennan in the new film, experienced a personal tragedy that sounds like it came off the pages of the movie script. Postlethwaite's brother died after drawing a hand in a card game. The cards that he pulled were three sixes.

Those involved in the original movie experienced some inexplicable occurrences as well including the following:

• Two months before filming had started, Gregory Peck's son killed himself with a bullet to the head.
• When Gregory Peck traveled to London that fall, his plane was hit by lightning over the Atlantic.
• The writer of the script, David Seltzer, was struck by lightning.
• The hotel where executive producer Mace Neufeld and his wife were staying was bombed by the IRA.
• A restaurant where the executives and actors (including Peck) were expected for dinner was also bombed.
• A plane reserved for filming was substituted to another client at the last moment and crashed on take-off, killing all onboard.
• After filming was completed, stuntman Alf Joint went to work on "A Bridge Too Far" and was badly injured during a routine stunt and had to be hospitalized. When he regained consciousness, he told friends that it felt as though he had been pushed.
• Special effects expert John Richardson was involved in a head-on collision in Holland.
• Liz Moore, Richardson's assistant, died instantly when her body was sliced in two as the car's front wheel came into the passenger seat of the car. Moore's corpse looked like the deaths Richardson had simulated in the movie. The accident occurred near a road sign that indicated the next town was 66.6 kilometers away. The name of the town was Ommen.

The Left Coast Report decided to go see "Over the Hedge" instead.

4. Super-Speculation About 'Superman Returns'

Veteran Hollywood producer Bryan Singer ("The Usual Suspects," "X-2") has been downplaying something that's been rampant on the Internet and in other media.

The speculation involves the sexual preference of the superhero character in Singer's upcoming film "Superman Returns."

Rumor has it that Singer's version of Superman is gay.

The Advocate, the Los Angeles Times and other entertainment Web sites have been debating the question.

The focus of discussion seems to revolve around the Man of Steel's image on promotional posters - the cape, red tights and blue body suit.

Superman "is probably the most heterosexual character in any movie I've ever made," Singer said.

The Left Coast Report sees a lot of folks giving Superman's outfit three snaps up.

5. Barbra Streisand's Sham Planet Plea

It's getting to be old hat.

Yes, Barbra Streisand is coming out of retirement - again.  

It seems the announcement happens just about as frequently as an Al Gore doomsday forecast.

Speaking of global warming's nutty professor, Streisand is taking a page from the politician-turned-documentary idol and will sing in hopes of saving the globe. The Dem diva plans on touring the country this fall.

At a retirement announcement back in 2000, Streisand told her fans that she would never perform in concert again, saying, "I don't like performing. I feel like I'm in a beauty pageant."

For Earth's sake, though, Streisand will evidently take to the stage and croon at 20 concerts in various U.S. cities. Designated proceeds will go to support her pet causes, which include the environment, education and women's health with the Babs bucks being distributed through The Streisand Foundation.

The Streisand Foundation funnels cash to a lot of groups that are well known on the green scene, the Natural Resources Defense Council being a significant one.

"The increasingly urgent need for private citizen support to combat dangerous climate change, along with education and health issues, was the prime reason I decided to tour again," Streisand recently said in a statement. "This will allow me to direct funds and awareness to causes that I care deeply about."

As a participant in the effort to make the United States less dependent on foreign oil, Streisand often preaches about conservation. Back in the Gray Davis days when California was suffering from power blackouts, she issued on her Web site a press release titled "A Call to Conserve."

Streisand wrote, "We must make concrete changes in our lifestyles to help solve this energy crisis and now is the time to do it." She also recommended that folks make some energy sacrifices, including, "Turn up your thermostat to 78 degrees when you're home, and 85 degrees when you're out," and "Use warm or cold water to wash clothes and try to line dry as much as possible."

I would send out kudos to Streisand for using her celebrity to extol the virtues of conservation, but it seems that her own environmental bell rings hollow.

Streisand and hubby James Brolin occupy an estate that has five homes and a 12,000-square-foot air-conditioned barn. As Peter Schweitzer points out in his book "Do as I Say, Not as I Do," her lawn sprinkling alone at her vast manor racks up a bill of $22,000 a year. (She also reportedly maintains her New York apartment at 42 degrees in order to stockpile her furs.)

Not that long ago Streisand brought a $50 million lawsuit against an environmentalist who had posted pictures of her Malibu digs on his Web site. I spoke at the time to the defendant, Kenneth Adelman, a retired Silicon Valley businessman and dedicated environmental activist. Adelman was "surprised that Streisand went so far as to go to litigation."

Streisand's site even questioned the purity of Adelman's motives. "Although he purports to have undertaken his photography for environmental reasons, his Web site does not attempt to explain how depicting Ms. Streisand's home together with her name serves any environmental purpose."

However, Adelman explained that the photos provided a record of the coastline for environmental research and advocacy.

An L.A. judge ruled that the pictures did not violate Streisand's privacy and ordered her to pay the defendant's legal fees. According to Adelman's lawyer, Richard Kendall, after the parties were ordered by the court to settle on the amount of the legal fees, Streisand simply refused to pay any amount.

Forced to return to the court, Adelman asked the judge to make the reluctant performer square up. The judge ultimately ordered Streisand to pay $154,000 in attorney fees.

Adelman has now moved on. He's continuing his environmental project, Babs' objections notwithstanding.

The Left Coast Report thinks it's a pretty safe bet that Adelman won't be buying tickets to Streisand's ecology tour.

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