Taking Sides: James Wood vs James Woods

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Like the critic Harold Bloom, Wood advocates an aesthetic approach to literature, rather than more ideologically-driven trends in academic literary criticism. In an interview with the Harvard Crimson, Wood explains that the "novel exists to be affecting...to shake us profoundly. When we're rigorous about feeling, we're honoring that." The reader, then, should approach the text as a writer, "which is [about] making aesthetic judgments."
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2001: While on a commercial flight from Boston to Los Angeles in August, he noticed a group of men acting suspiciously on the plane and informed a flight attendant that he felt they were planning to hijack the plane. He has thus been in several interviews with FBI agents since the September 11 attacks.

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Woods 8
Wood 5


groovy groovy jazzy funky pounce bounce dance (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:57 (seventeen years ago)

"Nas" and "Jigga" on the blackboard = easy James Wood win.

The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 1 March 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

That one dude's approach to literature sounds kind of boring so I'm going with the other guy.

swedes put dill on fields of salmon (fields of salmon), Sunday, 1 March 2009 03:14 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 2 March 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

Are those the lyrics to "High All the Time" behind James Wood?

antexit, Monday, 2 March 2009 00:39 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

I keep reading the James Wood thread revive on SNA as James Woods.

Um - I had no idea about the Woods 9-11 thing. Crazy.

ENBB, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:45 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

I love that movie.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, April 14, 2012 5:19 PM (20 minutes ago)

Meaning True Believer. I was actually disappointed, knowing what a favourite of Kael's it is. I couldn't get past Woods's performance, which seemed really hammy to me. By coincidence--the similarity didn't register with me until well into the film--I had just watched the documentary William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe last week.

clemenza, Saturday, 14 April 2012 21:45 (thirteen years ago)

The stuff with the DA is hammy, yeah

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 April 2012 22:01 (thirteen years ago)

nine months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/B6EAy9e.jpg

del griffith, Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:11 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

WHAT IS WITH THIS MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT NOW

goole, Friday, 31 July 2015 19:38 (ten years ago)

THE ACTOR I MEAN, NOT THE LITERARY CRITIC

goole, Friday, 31 July 2015 19:39 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/actor-james-woods-gloats-over-death-of-man-he-sued-i-hope-he-died-screaming-my-name-in-agony/

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 22 October 2016 20:40 (nine years ago)

eight months pass...

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/neil-patrick-harris-slams-james-235757460.html

Sean Young was right all along

nomar, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 15:08 (eight years ago)

I am blocked by James Wood on twitter dot com

she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 17:20 (eight years ago)

go to the corner and think about what you have done

A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 17:27 (eight years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/armie-hammer-calls-out-james-woods-on-creepy-sexual-history.html

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 21:31 (eight years ago)

Hammer’s point about Woods being hypocritical was echoed by actress Amber Tamblyn, who recalled a rather unsavory experience with the older actor. “James Woods tried to pick me and my friend up at a restaurant once,” Tamblyn tweeted. “He wanted to take us to Vegas. ‘I’m 16’ I said. ‘Even better’ he said.”

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 21:38 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

BANNED FROM TWITTER

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 5 May 2019 19:51 (six years ago)

why did the authoritarian lunatic beat the stodgy literary critic?

Trϵϵship, Sunday, 5 May 2019 20:07 (six years ago)

is this just another case of ilx's rabid and irrational aversion to the "middlebrow"?

Trϵϵship, Sunday, 5 May 2019 20:10 (six years ago)

Woods wasn't as crazy then.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 5 May 2019 20:28 (six years ago)

three years pass...

armie-hammer-calls-out-james-woods-on-creepy-sexual-history

What was the last good James woods movie before he went absolutely crazy?

Watched COP again recently. A really sleazy role and movie, one that probably nails the true essence of Ellroy better than anything else I’ve seen. Both his storytelling and he himself. The ending still rips.

omar little, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 15:34 (three years ago)

A: The Hard Way

epistantophus, Thursday, 29 December 2022 01:23 (three years ago)

Cop rocks.

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 29 December 2022 01:29 (three years ago)

one year passes...

Not on my 2024 bingo card

https://www.stereogum.com/2280216/shooter-jennings-has-made-an-album-with-right-wing-hollywood-pariah-james-woods/music/

Now, James Woods has teamed up with Shooter Jennings, the fringey country musician and producer, to tell his life story in an album called Hear The Thunder Crack. The record’s marketing describes it as “an expansive poetic journey into the mind and life of legendary Hollywood icon James Woods.” Over a period of years, Jennings, the son of outlaw country icons Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, turned Woods’ poetry into a kind of autobiographical album. Here’s what Woods says about the record, according to Mediaite:

"Throughout my Hollywood career, people encouraged me to write a book about my life. Celebrity “tell-alls” never appealed to me, though, because I don’t care about frivolous things. I yearned to share stories that moved me in my life, authentic tales that lifted my spirits or broke my heart. When the great Shooter Jennings once casually suggested I write song lyrics, I was skeptical. When I put pen to paper, however, these whispers from the heart expressed themselves in ways I never imagined. And when Shooter then put them to music, my life changed forever. I can’t wait to share them with you."

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 September 2024 19:10 (one year ago)

whispers from the heart

brimstead, Saturday, 14 September 2024 21:31 (one year ago)

The James Woods of the '80s would've stabbed this one in the heart

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 September 2024 21:36 (one year ago)

... with his big fuckin' dick

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 September 2024 21:44 (one year ago)


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