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  Woody Harrelson on Raw Foods
Woody Harrelson on the seeds of spirituality and a change in his diet
Harrelson has reached a crucial point in his spiritual evolution: He's about to go beyond vegan to an "80 percent-living-diet"- no enzyme inhibitors, nothing dead.
Harrelson is ambushed by a video team from the radical People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
www.eatveg.com /woody.htm   (339 words)

  
  Woody Harrelson - Uncyclopedia
In 1982, Harrelson (a relative unknown at the time) was cast in the role of Woody Boyd on the TV show Cheers, a role that would thrust Woody into the spotlight.
Woody only had sufficient range to play the role of a mid-western bumpkin, so the Manhattan sophisticate was changed into the idiot from Indiana.
Woody Harrelson demonstrates an ancient hemp-based toupé from the ancient Aztecs.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Woody_Harrelson   (883 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harrelson was born in Midland, Texas to Charles Voyde Harrelson and Diane Lou Oswald, who divorced in 1964; he has two brothers, Jordan and Brett, who is a professional motorcycle racer.
In 1985, Harrelson married Nancy Simon, daughter of playwright Neil Simon, in Tijuana.
Harrelson is an outspoken supporter for the legalization of marijuana and hemp in the USA.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woody_Harrelson   (722 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson
Harrelson made his Broadway debut understudying Matthew Broderick in the lead of Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, and was briefly married to Simon's daughter.
Harrelson is part-owner of a hemp-clothing company, and in June 1996, he planted four industrial hemp seeds in Kentucky, with video cameras rolling.
Harrelson's life took an odd turn at the age of 17, when his father was hired to kill U.S. District Judge John H. Wood, and did the deed.
www.nndb.com /people/666/000023597   (429 words)

  
 Pot Smoker of The Month Woody Harrelson - drug testing
Woody, born Woodrow Tracy Harrelson on July 23, 1961 in Midland, TX., had a childhood most people have never had to face.
Woody was briefly married to Nancy Simon in 1985-6.
Woody has posted a $500,000 bail for cancer survivor and longtime medical marijuana proponent Todd McCormack, after the 27-yr-old was arrested for cultivating large quantities of marijuana in his Bel-Air home.
www.cleartest.com /testinfo/woody_harrelson.html   (1628 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson - Moviefone
Known almost as much for his off-screen pastimes as his on-screen characterizations, Woody Harrelson is an actor for whom truth is undeniably...
Project started by Woody Harrelson and Laura Louie to encourage citizens to protest pollution of the air, soil, and water through everyday choices and...
Impromptu shot of Woody Harrelson in Eugene, Oregon, 2004...
movies.aol.com /celebrity/woody-harrelson/30548/main   (111 words)

  
 Cheers : Woody Harrelson : tvland.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In stark Contrast to the Commander in Chief's gilded upbringing, however, Woody was a troubled child whose father left the family when he was a young boy.
In 1985 he was cast in Cheers as the innocent, endearing farm boy bartender Woody Boyd (the producers had named the character Woody before he auditioned for the role.) In 1989 he won an Emmy for his work and stayed with the show until its cancellation in 1993.
Woody is an activist for the legalization of marijuana and is the lead singer in a band called Manly Moondog and the Three Kool Hats.
www.tvland.com /shows/cheers/actors/act8.jhtml   (386 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson's legal hemp brief
Additionally, contemporaneous with the filing of this Brief, Harrelson is tendering to the Court a transcript of the hearing which occurred on October 30, 1996.
Harrelson stated that he became interested in industrial hemp in 1991 due to the environmental advantages of industrial hemp.
Harrelson stated that there was no problem with the law enforcement officials in England lf.oerning the growth of industrial hemp.
www.cleartest.com /testinfo/legal_hemp_brief.html   (3651 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson Photos - Woody Harrelson News - Woody Harrelson Information
Woody Harrelson, Daniel Radcliffe, Sharleen Spiteri, Kaiser Chiefs.
Woody was among a small group of notable and highly influential environmentalists to be recognized.
Woody, pro-active in his advocacy for positive environment change, he has committed himself personally to living a simple, organic lifestyle.
www.tv.com /woody-harrelson/person/893/summary.html   (439 words)

  
 PEOPLE.com | Woody Harrelson
Woody, surely the most befuddled bartender in the land, is standing in his workplace, laconically shooting the breeze with his colleague-in-pouring, Sam (Ted Danson), when an irresistible, short-skirted young woman flounces by.
Woody closely followed the trial of his father, whose birthday he shares, in the papers and calls the conviction "a travesty." He believes his father was a victim of prejudicial pretrial publicity and points out that the trial judge was one of the murdered man's pallbearers.
Woody visits the prison once a year, and in 1987, when Charles got married by proxy (to a woman he had known on the outside), his son stood in for him.
members.tripod.com /Becker_Danson/WoodyHarrel.html   (1518 words)

  
 CNN.com - Woody Harrelson's long, strange trip - Mar. 10, 2003
Woody Harrelson stars in "Go Further" a film that chronicles a spring 2001 bus trip.
Harrelson, a Texas native, made the 1,700-mile journey with several friends -- including a yoga instructor and a raw food chef -- in a bus fueled by hempseed oil.
A longtime environmental activist, Harrelson, 41, was arrested in June 1996 and acquitted after planting hempseeds in Kentucky.
www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/10/sxsw.harrelson.ap/index.html   (478 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On the stage, Harrelson understudied in the Neil Simon Broadway comedy {+Biloxi Blues (he was briefly married to Simon's daughter Nancy) and at one point wrote a play titled {+Furthest From the Sun.
Harrelson contributed a cameo to the same year's Jack Nicholson/Adam Sandler vehicle Anger Mangement, and a supporting role to 2004's critically-panned Spike Lee opus She Hate Me. The tepid response to these films mirrored those directed at After the Sunset (2004), Brett Ratner's homage to Alfred Hitchcock.
Harrelson portrays the lead, a Washington, D.C.-based female escort; Schrader informed the trades that he envisions the character as something similar to what American Gigolo's Julian Kaye would become in middle-age.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+30548   (1047 words)

  
 Living Tree Paper | Why Woody Harrelson
You may know Woody Harrelson from his days as the comical Woody Boyd on the award winning television show Cheers, or from playing charismatic or off-beat characters on a number of large Hollywood blockbusters.
This was a chance for Woody and other activists, actors and musicians to speak on the need to stop destruction of old growth forests and find healthy, sustainable alternatives to over-consumerism and its depletion of the Earth's resources.
Most recently, Woody was among a handful of notable and highly influential environmentalists to be recognized at the 6th Annual Green Cross Millennium Awards sponsored by Global Green USA.
www.livingtreepaper.com /about_whywoody.html   (590 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson gets back in the ring - Salon
In the movie that catapulted him to big-screen stardom, "White Men Can't Jump" (1992), Woody Harrelson showed he had the imaginative zing to take audiences to unexpected places and the emotional depth to satisfy them once they got there.
Harrelson's narration of the pro-marijuana documentary "Grass" has received more publicity than his reunion with Shelton in last winter's "Play It to the Bone," a juicy piece of vernacular poetry about the life and art of boxers.
Harrelson plays Vince Boudreau, a womanizing Jesus freak who could have been a contender, and can get one more shot at a title if he defeats his best friend (Antonio Banderas) -- who also happens to be the current lover of his ex-girlfriend (Lolita Davidovich).
dir.salon.com /story/ent/col/srag/2000/07/06/harrelson/index.html   (857 words)

  
 PCRM Gala: The Art of Compassion > Woody Harrelson
Harrelson first endeared himself to millions of viewers as a member of the ensemble cast of NBC's long-running hit comedy Cheers.
For his work as the affable bartender Woody Boyd, he won an Emmy in 1988 and was nominated four additional times during his eight-year run on the show.
Along with being daddy to his two beautiful daughters, closest to his heart is www.voiceyourself.com, a website Harrelson co-created with his wife Laura Louie that promotes and inspires individual action to create global momentum towards simple organic living and to restore balance and harmony to our planet.
www.pcrm.org /gala/speakers/woody.html   (335 words)

  
 andPOP | Woody Harrelson Attacks Photographer
Harrelson, 45, was leaving the club with a group of people when TMZ photographer Josh Levine started snapping photos of the actor.
Harrelson then asked Levine to stop snapping photos and eventually approached the photographer and put his hand on the camera.
Harrelson is shown in the video putting his hands around Levine's neck and saying something else.
www.andpop.com /article/6322   (314 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson @ Filmbug
Woody Harrelson received Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Nominations as Best Actor for his critically acclaimed portrayal of controversial magazine publisher Larry Flynt in Milos Forman's drama, The People Vs. Larry Flynt.
Harrelson starred opposite Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek in Brett Ratner's After the Sunset, the Jane Anderson directed The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio with Julianne Moore, director Mark Mylod's The Big White with Robin Williams and Holly Hunter, and North Country starring Charlize Theron, Sissy Spacek, and Frances McDormand for director Niki Caro.
For his work as the affable bartender Woody Boyd, Harrelson won an Emmy in 1988 and was nominated four additional times during his eight-year run on the show.
www.filmbug.com /db/369   (381 words)

  
 SFGate: Daily Dish : Woody Harrelson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Actor Woody Harrelson was involved in an alleged assault on a photographer Thursday night as he left a Hollywood nightclub.
Actor Woody Harrelson and wife Laura Louis are celebrating the birth of their third daughter this weekend.
Harrelson, already the father to two little girls, insists he's not concerned about the sex of his youngest offspring, adding, "I hear boys are a lot of work and these girls have been working out like gangbusters.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/category?blogid=7&cat=247   (637 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson Current Month TV Schedule
Woody moonlights as a grave digger, but it's his funeral when he meets Kelly's grandmother.
Starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr, Tommy Lee Jones, Rodney Dangerfield, Tom Sizemore, Edie McClurg, Balthazar Getty, Joe Grifasi, Russell Means.
Woody Harrelson plays a rude neighbor whose obnoxious behavior is really getting to Grace.
www.tv-now.com /stars/woodyh.html   (2310 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson
Harrelson and the others were charged with trespassing, creating a public nuisance and failure to obey a police officer.
Woody Harrelson’s activism is more than press-release deep—he’s willing to get arrested for the causes he believes in.
Harrelson as hemp farmer: Minutes after planting four industrial hemp seeds, he was arrested by Kentucky police.
www.globalhemp.com /Archives/Magazines/woody_harrelson.shtml   (2328 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson
His father, Charles Voyde Harrelson, went to prison for life, convicted of murder when Harrelson was only seven.
Harrelson's movie career took off with 1992's White Men Can't Jump, and although he seemed miscast in 1993's Indecent Proposal, the film was a major hit.
In 1999, Harrelson, a vegan, received another Emmy nomination for reprising the role of Woody Boyd in a guest appearance on Frasier.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2095   (331 words)

  
 Interview - Woody Harrelson for "North Country"
Los Angeles, CA It seems that former Cheers star Woody Harrelson is back with a vengeance and on a roll these days, beginning with his idealistic lawyer in North Country, the powerful story of a sexual harassment law suit set in the thick of the mining industry.
Woody Harrelson: Well I love the story and I think it's a powerful story about people standing up for their rights.
Woody Harrelson: I remember hearing someone saying something to the effect of, "If environmentalists were not worried about taking credit for saving the world, we would have saved it a long time ago." I do feel like there's a real need for all the environmentalists to get together.
www.darkhorizons.com /news05/northc2.php   (2006 words)

  
 WOODY HARRELSON ACQUITTED ON HEMP CHARGES
Beattyville, Ky. -- A Lee County jury acquitted actor Woody Harrelson on a misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession yesterday, ending his four-year court battle to get the state to differentiate between hemp and marijuana.
Harrelson, who spent much of the day signing hundreds of autographs, could have been sentenced to a year in jail and fined $500 if convicted.
Harrelson, 39, starred in the films "Natural Born Killers" and "The People vs. Larry Flynt" but is best known to many for his bartending role in the '80s television series "Cheers."
www.ecomall.com /greenshopping/woodyhemp.htm   (822 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson - Vegan Represent
Harrelson, a vegan and certified yoga instructor, is a longtime environmental activist and has been recognized by the American Oceans Campaign, Rainforest Action Network and the Colorado Hemp Initiative Project.
TORONTO -- While wandering with Woody Harrelson through the nascent New Age downtown Toronto marketplace that is The Distillery, you sense the same vibe Al Waxman gave off strolling past stalls on TV's King Of Kensington.
Woody spent a couple of months at my house outside of Arcata, when we were organizing Headwaters actions and the Golden Gate actions....
www.veganrepresent.com /forums/showthread.php?t=103   (1030 words)

  
 Spitfire Tour
Oscar-nominated actor and activist Woody Harrelson is known for his outspokenness and willingness to truly "walk the walk." Woody has channeled his energies into various environmental causes, including the saving of the California redwoods and other endangered forests.
As an environmentalist, he came to see the legalization of industrial hemp as a solution to the worldwide fiber shortage crisis.
Woody has been honored for his activism by such environmental groups as the American Oceans Campaign, Rainforest Action Network and the Colorado Hemp Initiative Project.
www.spitfiretour.org /woody.html   (125 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson Bio, News and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
Woody Harrelson, an accomplished film, television and stage actor, received Academy Award®, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award nominations for Best Actor for his portrayal of controversial magazine publisher Larry Flynt in Milos Forman's drama The People vs. Larry Flynt.
Harrelson was most recently seen in Brett Ratner's After the Sunset, with Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek.
For his work as the affable bartender Woody Boyd, he won an Emmy in 1989 and was nominated four additional times.
www.ropeofsilicon.com /profile.php?id=1748   (380 words)

  
 Woody Harrelson Jonnie Gilman
When it was time for Woody to introduce the film, he had yet to return from his Capital Hill tour.
Woody is present, but is not the “star.” The focus is on the other activists, the roles they take, the people they encounter, and the changes they go through as they travel together.
Woody to showed me various posters and postcards he had, mostly of a antiwar nature.
www.naturalchoice.net /articles/woodyharrelson.htm   (3512 words)

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