By E. Graydon Carter

Looking like a cross between Hagar the Horrible and Rodin's The Thinker for his role in the film Conan the Barbarian, Bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger is clearly no dumbbell. He will be working out alongside Sandahl Bergman, who steamed up movie theaters in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. Conan, about to go into production in Spain, is based on the 1930s sword-and-sorcery tales of Robert E. Howard. Schwarzenegger's main cause for thoughtful concern is the film's villain, Thulsa Doom, played by James Earl Jones, the ominous voice of Star Wars'Darth Vader.

Chalk up another true-to-life role for Actress Cicely Tyson. She has already starred in television biographies of Abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. This time Tyson plays a Chicago superteacher, Marva Collins, in a TV movie to be aired next fall. Collins has coaxed children of Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area from near illiteracy to discussions of Roman history and Michelangelo. She also coached Tyson in classroom technique, and gives the actress high marks as a student. Says Collins: "Cicely takes her acting as seriously as I take my teaching."

"We slept three to a room and there were feet everywhere," says South Carolina Tailback George Washington Rogers, 22, of his impoverished childhood in rural Duluth, Ga. For the past four football seasons, Rogers' fleet feet have been everywhere. He led the nation in rushing with 1,781 yds., sufficient mileage to earn him the 46th annual Heisman Trophy as the country's outstanding college football player. With the bulk (225 lbs.) of a fullback, the 6-ft. 2-in. Rogers ran for 4,958 yds. during his South Carolina career to become the fourth alltime college rusher. He may be drafted by the last-place New Orleans Saints, who can sure use him. Their fans have taken to wearing paper bags over their heads by way of protesting the Saints' sinful performance.

Life with a Congressman need not be dull, especially if the Congressman is Democrat John Jenrette, who lost his House seat in the November election after being convicted of bribery in the FBI Abscam investigation. Writing in last weekend's Washington Post magazine, Rita Jenrette, 30, confesses: "I knew the honeymoon was over when I rolled over one morning to find John's side of the bed unruffled. I found him drunk, undressed and lying on the floor in the arms of a woman who I knew was old enough to be his mother." But all such problems are behind them now, says Rita, an aspiring pop singer and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Micronesia. "I feel we are embarking on a new, more real life." Though she bared her soul in the Post article, she modestly declined an offer from Playboy to bare anything else.

Tweedy, trim and looking more like a suburban housewife than a former leader of the radical Weather Underground, Bernardine Dohrn, 38, came in from the cold. With William Ayers, 35, her live-in companion for most of the past eleven years, at her side, she pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated battery and mob action arising from the 1969 "Days of Rage" demonstrations in Chicago. The two have weathered an underground life ever since, most recently with their two children in a walk-up apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where Dohrn worked as a shop manager and bookkeeper and part-time waitress. "I regret not at all our efforts to side with the forces of national liberation," said Dohrn. So why did she surrender to the tender mercies of the System? "The climate has changed," said Michael Kennedy, Dohrn's New York lawyer. "Mayor Daley is no longer mayor." No, but in charge of prosecuting Dohrn's case is Cook County State's Attorney Richard M. Daley, son of the late mayor whose heavyhandedness helped spark the Chicago demonstrations.

-- By E. Graydon Carter

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