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Arnold Schwarzenegger's Canceled Film: How 'Cry Macho' Parallels His Own Scandal

Before news that Arnold Schwarzenegger cheated on Maria Shriver with his maid and produced a love child, he was set to star in Cry Macho, an adaptation of a novel about, oddly enough, an adulterous, mid-life-crisis-suffering ex-rodeo star bonding with an 11-year-old Mexican boy. Marlow Stern on the nine most bizarre similarities between Schwarzenegger's would-be film and his own domestic scandal.

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Before the news broke of Arnold Schwarzenegger's affair and love child, he was signed on to do a movie adaptation of the book "Cry Macho" where his character gets close to a young Mexican boy. Credit: Lionel Cironneau / AP Photo

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