Posted on 01/10/2003 7:45:44 AM PST by veronica
Sen. Hillary Clinton's camp blasted actor James Woods yesterday after he maligned the New York lawmaker this week.
Woods, who plays former Mayor Giuliani in the upcoming cable pic "Rudy," said Wednesday that Giuliani "went to over 200 [9/11] funerals. Senator Clinton went to zero. That's a simple statistic you never read."
No wonder you never read it: It's not true.
Woods' comments were "factually inaccurate and extremely inappropriate," said Clinton's rep, Jennifer Hanley.
Hanley noted that Clinton attended many police and firefighter funerals and gave a eulogy at the service for FDNY chaplain Father Mychal Judge.
You know, "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" - the statement out of the Clinton camp may get a check mark next to the first one, but it is missing on the second, and the third (as always with the Clintons) is in grave doubt.
Biography for James Woods
Birth Name
James Howard Woods Height 6'
Mini biography
Woods grew up in Warwick, R.I. He graduated from Pilgrim High School there in 1965 near the top of his class and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass. He dropped out to pursue his acting career shortly before his scheduled graduation in 1969.
IMDb mini-biography by Anonymous
Spouse
Kathryn Morrison (1980 - 1983) (divorced)
Sarah Owen (2 June 1989 - 1990) (divorced)
Trivia
Received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame [15 October 1998]
Alleged to have an IQ of 180. Scored a perfect 800 on his verbal SATs and a 779 on the math section.
He plays a character who works for Richard Nixon in the movie "Nixon" and played one of a band of man who wore Nixon masks when they robbed a police depository in "Best Seller."
Reserve Los Angeles Police Officer. Anti-Capital Punishment.
He appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song "Voices That Care."
Fired his agent for not telling him of Tarantino's offer to star as Mr.Orange/Freddie in Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Dated actress Heather Graham
Majored in Political Science at M.I.T.
Brother of actor 'Michael Woods'
Felt victimized by Sean Young, who allegedly stalked and harrassed him after their dating relationship ended.
Member of Theta Delta Chi Fraternity.
Was engaged to actress Missy Crider in 1997; they met when she played his daughter in the TV movie 'Jane's House'.
While on a commercial flight from Boston to LA in August, he noticed a group of men acting suspiciously on the plane and informed a flight attendant that he felt the men were planning to hijack the plane. He has thus been in several interviews with FBI agents since the September 11 attacks. [2001]
Providing the voice of Carl, the straight-laced rabbit in the pet store across the street from a rental station, in a series of Blockbuster commercials.
Is ambidextrous(as seen in The Virgin Suicides, writes on chalkboard with both hands)
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: Slender, intense actor whose boring eyes, pockmarked face and curled lips added an aura of menace to many of his early characterizations-most of which, it should be noted, were psychotics and sociopaths. An MIT graduate (who majored in political science!), the intimidatingly intelligent Woods made a name for himself in character parts but, in recent years, has sought after "good guy" roles that ostensibly add luster to his star but aren't nearly as interesting as, say, his cop killer in The Onion Field (1979), his obsessive hoodlum in Against All Odds (1984), or his cold-blooded hit man in Best Seller (1987). Oscar-nominated for his incredibly forceful performance as a scheming journalist in Salvador (1986), Woods has shown real versatility, bringing charm and humor to Joshua Then and Now (1985), over-the-top comedy to The Hard Way (1991), and old-fashioned charisma to his best starring vehicle, True Believer (1989), in which he played a 1960s radical turned "people's champion"-style lawyer. He first attracted attention on the TV miniseries "Holocaust" (1978) and has found great opportunities in that medum ever since. He won Emmy Awards for his outstanding performances in the telefilms Promise (1986, as James Garner's schizophrenic brother) and My Name Is Bill W (1989, as the longtime drunk who cofounded Alcoholics Anonymous), and was ideally cast as notorious lawyer Roy Cohn in the cable-TV movie Citizen Cohn (1992).
OTHER FILMS INCLUDE: 1972:The Visitors (his debut), Hickey & Boggs 1973:The Way We Were 1974:The Gambler 1975:Distance, Night Moves 1976:Alex and the Gypsy 1977:The Choirboys 1980:The Black Marble (in a cameo); 1981:Eyewitness 1982:Fast-Walking, Split Image 1983:Videodrome (in the lead in this David Cronenberg-directed cult favorite); 1984:Once Upon a Time in America 1985:Cat's Eye 1987:Cop 1988:The Boost 1989:Immediate Family 1992:Straight Talk, Chaplin, Diggstown 1994: The Getaway, The Specialist, Curse of the Starving Class 1995: Casino
Copyright © 1994 Leonard Maltin, used by arrangement with Signet, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.
[me talking] Well, Maltin says he DID graduate. Who knows?
Which ones? I think that some of the families of these police/firefighters would have come out to dispute this claim that she hadn't attended any funerals if she had come to their relatives funeral. I'm waiting to hear from the families.
Good one! Yes, painful for her to think of all the great publicity she and bj could have gotten.
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