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Saturday 4 March 2017
Arnold Schwarzenegger on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’: I quit
DAVID BAUDER This Dec. 9, 2016 image released by NBC shows Arnold Schwarzenegger, the new boss of “The view with the Empire web
AP Television Writer New Celebrity Apprentice,” at a press junket in Universal City, Calif. site. “It’s a very divisive
NEW YORK (AP) — Arnold period now and I think this
Schwarzenegger said Fri- Associated Press show got caught up in all
day that he’s through that division.”
with “The New Celeb- tion except for a 2010 the Nielsen company said. in the show people have a After Schwarzenegger’s
rity Apprentice,” and he’s Trump-hosted edition with- Even if he were asked bad taste and don’t want debut in January, Trump
blaming President Donald out celebrities, and the again, Schwarzenegger to participate as a spec- took to Twitter to report the
Trump for the television re- most poorly-rated edition said he wouldn’t want to tator or as a sponsor or in show had been swamped
ality show’s recent poor among the youthful view- do it. any other way support the “in comparison to the rat-
performance. ers NBC cares most about, “With Trump being involved show,” he said in an inter- ings machine, DJT” — using
The former California gov- his initials. Schwarzenegger
ernor said he wouldn’t shot back on social me-
mind working with NBC dia that he hoped Trump
and producer Mark Bur- would work for the Ameri-
nett again “on a show that can people as aggressive-
doesn’t have this bag- ly as he did for his ratings.
gage.” The actor, like Trump a Re-
Schwarzenegger replaced publican, did not endorse
the president as host of Trump and said during last
the show, but Trump re- fall’s campaign that he
mained as an executive would not vote for him.
producer. The president When “The New Celeb-
taunted Schwarzenegger rity Apprentice” ended its
for the show’s recent poor season last month, Trump
performance in the ratings, tweeted that Schwar-
even mocking him during zenegger “did a really bad
an address at the National job as governor of Califor-
Prayer Breakfast. nia and even worse on The
The show, which wrapped Apprentice, but at least he
up its 15th season last tried hard.”
month, averaged fewer NBC had no immediate
than 5 million viewers per comment about whether
episode. That was lower the show would return with
than any other incarna- a new host.q
Paula Fox, prize winning author, dead at 93
HILLEL ITALIE Characters,” her most high- In this March 24, 2011 photo, author Paula Fox poses for a por- She might have written
AP National Writer ly regarded work of fiction, trait in New York. Fox, known for the novels “Desperate Char- more novels, but a head
NEW YORK (AP) — Paula is a portrait of New York acters” and “Poor George” and the memoir “Borrowed Finery.” injury sustained from a
Fox, a prize-winning author City’s civic and domes- mugging in Jerusalem in
who created high art out tic decline in the 1960s, a Associated Press the 1990s left her unable
of imagined chaos in such plague symbolized by the to write long fiction. She
novels as “Poor George” bite of a stray cat. also wrote more than a dozen children’s books, includ- instead began working on
and “Desperate Charac- “It seems to me that in life, ing “The Slave Dancer,” winner of the Newbery medal memoirs and shorter piec-
ters” and out of the real- behind all these names in 1974. “Borrowed Finery,” published in 2001, was nomi- es.
life upheavals in her mem- and things and people nated for the National Book Critics Circle award. Born in New York City in
oir “Borrowed Finery,” has and forces, there’s a dark 1923, Fox was the daugh-
died at age 93. energy,” Fox told The Asso- ter of novelist-screenwriter
Her daughter, Linda Carroll, ciated Press in 2011. Paul Fox and fellow screen-
told The Associated Press Her work was out of print writer Elsie Fox. Paula Fox
that Fox died Wednesday for years, but she enjoyed remembered her father as
at Brooklyn Methodist Hos- a late-life revival thanks a drunk given to “intermi-
pital. She had been in fail- to the admiration of such nable, stumbling descrip-
ing health. younger authors as Jona- tions of the ways in which
Abandoned as a girl by her than Franzen, David Fos- he and fellow writers tried
parents, a single mother ter Wallace and Jonathan to elude domesticity.” Her
before age 20, Fox used Lethem. She lived for de- mother was a “sociopath”
the most finely crafted cades in Brooklyn and was who kicked her out of the
prose to write again and a revered figure in the New house as a young girl. Fox
again about breakdown York City borough’s thriving lived everywhere from a
and disruption, what hap- literary community. plantation in Cuba to a
pens under the “surface of Her other books included boarding school in Mon-
things.” In “Poor George,” the novels “A Servant’s treal.
her debut novel, Fox told Tale,” ‘’The Western Coast” “My life was incoherent
of a bored school teacher and a memoir about living to me,” Fox wrote in “Bor-
and the teen vagrant who in Europe after World War rowed Finery.” ‘’I felt it
upends his life. “Desperate II, “The Coldest Winter.” Fox quivering, spitting out bro-
ken teeth.” q
