Extras on the DVD version of "Pumping Iron" mostly play like promos for the film and its star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, but there is an odd and compelling new element. In "Iron Insights," Gov.-elect Schwarzenegger sits alone for the camera, reeling off a 15-minute monologue about what he did and didn't do during the making of the hit 1977 "docudrama" about a bodybuilding competition. Schwarzenegger smoothly revisits the film's hot spots, notably the marijuana, his psychological pummeling of guileless rival Lou Ferrigno and the scene in which he says he skipped his father's funeral in favor of training for the Mr. Olympia competition.

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