Imagine a state where the death penalty was enforced in "Spartacus"-like gladiator contests, as novelist Norman Mailer proposed when he ran for mayor of New York in 1969.

Or how about replacing all our paved streets with rolling lawns, as grass-smoking gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson suggested when he ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colo., on the Freak Power Party ticket?

Among the other schemes of our would-be lawmakers:

Enrique Iglesias once said that if he were president he'd "pass a law saying that good-looking girls should walk around naked at all times."

Pint-size actor Gary Coleman, who ran in California for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and for governor last year, tried to ban grown men on scooters.

Race-car driver Mario Andretti said that if elected, he'd enact the death penalty for litterbugs.

Kathleen Turner told Baird Jones of East Village nightspot Webster Hall, "I would like to go to the Middle East to try to serve as a peace emissary."

At least Brad Pitt knows when to keep his mouth shut. Back when he was touting his Seven Years in Tibet, he said: "Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a (bleeping) actor. I'm a grown man who puts on makeup."