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"WolfThe Simpson's" last night again included Rainier Wolfcastle, the Austrian-born action star based on Arnold Schwarzenegger. This time, Homer takes a job as a paparazzo and invades Wolfcastle's marriage ceremony to "Maria Shriver Kennedy Quimby." The ceremony occurs behind a roaring waterfall. Later, Wolfcastle is wearing a "Heil To The Chef" apron at a barbecue.

According to Wolfcastle's profile on Wiki, he began his acting career in a bratwurst commercial in his native Austria. "At roughly the same time, he began experimenting with bodybuilding and his physique earned him a starring role in several gay pornography films. ... He was also at one point the primary actor on advertisements for 'PowerSauce Bars' claiming to boost muscle growth, but which were in fact a mash of apple cores and Chinese newspapers."

Paparrazi_3 The paparazzi incident isn't too far from home. A week after Schwarzenegger underwent open-heart surgery in 1997, photographers in two SUVs pursued Schwarzenegger, Shriver and their young son after leaving a day care center. Both paparazzi--Andrew O'Brien, left, and Giles Harrison (pictured)--were convicted in 1998 of misdemeanor false imprisonment.

Shriver said she felt like a caged animal and Schwarzenegger said he thought it was a kidnapping attempt. The governor in 2005 signed anti-paparazzi legislation to increase the civil penalties for the practice of "boxing"--using multiple cars to trap photographic prey.

(Photos: 20th Century Fox; E.J. Flynn / AP)

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Robert Salladay
Robert Salladay has covered California governors and state politics for 10 years. He has worked for the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Capitol bureaus of the S.F. Chronicle and L.A. Times. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley in history and Northwestern University in journalism. He covered the election of Gray Davis (twice), the 2000 Florida presidential recount, the 2003 recall and the Schwarzenegger administration. A native of Sacramento, he has lived in San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Chesapeake, Va.