Who’s a better actor, Arnold or Sylvester? Lisa Schwarzbaum answers this and other reader queries

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Who’s a better actor, Arnold or Sylvester?

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Sure, I can. But first may I say how encouraged I am by the rigorous standard of debate that flourishes at your workplace!

So many performance-related questions we get here at Ask the Critic are so, oh, you know, whatever: Who’s the worst actor in a great movie, who’s the best actor in a piece of junk — stuff like that.

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But you and your colleagues aren’t afraid to name names out of ”I Love the ’80s,” are you?

The answer, of course, is Schwarzenegger, who has always displayed a certain disarming circus-act gusto (lacking in Stallone, a humorless Oscar nominee) for the work he does, whether it’s pumping iron or pumping the hands of voters.

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The suggestion of amusement at his own improbability is as much a thespian skill as it is a political asset.