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"It may have been Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory celebration, but the crowd around him at the Century Plaza Hotel on Tuesday night easily could have been the receiving line at an NBC stars' picnic," notes Greg Braxton. Prominent faces at the celebration included his wife, "Dateline NBC" correspondent Maria Shriver; actor Rob Lowe of NBC's "Lyon's Den"; Pat O'Brien of NBC's "Access Hollywood"; and "Tonight Show" Host Jay Leno. According to Marty Kaplan, associate dean of the of University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, Schwarzenneger so blurs the line between politics and Hollywood that no one seems to notice when the media becomes blatantly partisan. As Nikki Finke observes, this isn't the first example of Leno's oh-so-obvious partisanship.
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