Posted on 10/08/2017 4:58:50 AM PDT by SMGFan
So I decided to talk to a reporter for the first time in years. To my surprise he got it right! Thank you, Avi...
How James Woods mistakenly announced his retirement in a real estate listing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/10/07/how-james-woods-mistakenly-announced-his-retirement-in-a-real-estate-listing/
In truth, he said, it was funny.
“I’m the world’s biggest tease on Twitter,” Woods said. “I do not remotely take myself seriously in any way. Why do you think I’m on ‘Family Guy’?”
The guy is a real patriot. He was on one of the late night shows...maybe Leno...a few years back.
Love James Woods. Glad to have him on OUR side.
If you ever heard his 9-11 story, it will give you chills.
He is awesome on twitter.
Yes. And no one wanted to hear it. To be fair though, I am sure it didn’t occur to anyone that anything like 9/11 could happen here. But he did try to convince the airlines the week before 9/11, that he had seen a dry run for something, on his plane from Boston to LA.
He spoke to the FBI and everything. He told the dry run story on the Tonight Show
When the FBI showed up at Wood’s door he asked them how they knew where he lived. They said “we’re the FBI”. So funny.
Unfortunately, the Fat Boys Institute has turned into a political bad joke. In reality, it seems that they couldn’t find their own ass with both hands...in TimesSquare...at high noon...with pre-printed instructions. Very Sad.
J. Edgar is probably spinning in his grave.
He’s a very intelligent and interesting person:
Early life
Woods was born in Vernal, Utah and had a brother ten years younger than him. His father, Gail Peyton Woods, was an army intelligence officer who died in 1960 after routine surgery. His mother, Martha A. (née Smith), operated a pre-school after her husband’s death and later married Thomas E. Dixon. Woods grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, where he attended Pilgrim High School, from which he graduated in 1965. He is of part Irish descent and was raised Catholic, briefly serving as an altar boy.
Woods ultimately chose to pursue his undergraduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he majored in political science[9], although he originally planned a career as an eye surgeon. While at MIT, Woods pledged to the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. He was also an active member of the student theatre group “Dramashop” where he both acted in and directed a number of plays. To pursue a career in acting, he dropped out of MIT in 1969 before his graduation.
Woods has said that he became an actor thanks to Tim Affleck (father of actors Ben and Casey Affleck), who was a stage manager at the Theatre Company of Boston while Woods was a student there.
Wikipedia
I have been in love with him since Against All Odds. He was my favorite actor and I didn’t even know his politics (and didn’t have any of my own yet either!). He’s the real deal all the way around.
Introduction to James Woods occurred in 1983 when he starred in the movie “Videodrome” (With Blondie, no less, Deborah Harry)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videodrome#Cast
A very dark character, but his presence was noted and remembered to this very day. I like the man and his politics.
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