James Woods retiring from entertainment industry
retiring at 70 - sad to hear
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/2017/10/james_woods_says_hes_retiring_from_film_and_selling_house
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shareInteresting coincidence. I happened to accidentally stumble onto a previously unknown film of his yesterday, Best Seller, in which he co-stars with Brian Dennehy and which I decided to watch. An interesting pairing of these two actors. I agree that he's good and I've also enjoyed several of his performances.
I remember reading years ago that he supposedly had an I.Q. of around 160, which is definitely genius range and of which I'm aware has contributed to his controversial reputation.
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shareMy understanding is that he dropped out of MIT in order to pursue acting. It takes a good amount of grey matter just to get accepted by MIT and his intellectual prowess does seem to come across in some of his performances.
Yes, his career displays a consistency. I also remember him in a remake of The Getaway and Carpenter's Vampires. We discussed The General's Daughter awhile back. I actually thought his was one of the better performances in that film.