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Opinion: Arnold Schwarzenegger as you’ve seen him before

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Now that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has laid down the state cellphone law to his wife, Maria Shriver, he’s going to be all over television this weekend reminiscing about his previous cinema life, B.S. (Before Sacramento).

In those simpler days he could more easily play the good guy, retakes were always possible, someone else worried about budget details and people voted with their purchases of movie tickets.

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Tomorrow, the Encore channel is devoting most of the day to Schwarzenegger movies. In fact, nine of them in a row. Sprinkled throughout with interview excerpts of the big fellow recalling his cinematic experiences.

It does start early (‘Conan the Destroyer’ launches at 5:30 a.m. Pacific). So you might want to activate the futuristic TiVo.

At 7:15 comes ‘Red Sonja,’ 8:50 ‘Kindergarten Cop,’ 10:45 ‘Last Action Hero,’ 1 p.m. ‘Batman & Robin,’ 3:10 ‘Twins,’ 5 p.m. ‘Eraser,’ 7 p.m. ‘The Running Man’ and the day terminates with you-know-what at 8:45 p.m.

Then, at 11 p.m. you can turn to your local news in the Golden State and see the same guy watching a fire, flood or signing yet another piece of much-argued legislation.

-- Andrew Malcolm

Speaking of entertainment, join California’s governor and numerous other politicians as Ticket Twitter followers; click here for Twitter alerts of each new Ticket item. Or follow @latimestot And we’re also over here on Facebook.

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