By Cordillia Marvine
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. Known for fast-talking, intense roles on screen and stage, he has received numerous accolades, including three Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He started his career in minor roles on and off-Broadway before making his Broadway debut in The Penny Wars (1969), followed by Borstal Boy (1970), The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1971) and Moonchildren (1972). Woods’ early film roles include The Visitors (1972), The Way We Were (1973) and Night Moves (1975). He starred in the NBC miniseries Holocaust (1978) opposite Meryl Streep.
He rose to prominence portraying Gregory Powell in The Onion Field (1979). He earned two Academy Awards nominations: one for Best Actor for his role as journalist Richard Boyle in Salvador (1986) and for Best Supporting Actor for playing white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Notable film roles include in Videodrome (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Hard Way (1991), Chaplin (1992), Nixon (1995), Casino (1995), Contact (1997), Vampires (1998), Another Day in Paradise (1998), Any Given Sunday (1999), and The Virgin Suicides (1999). He served as an executive producer on Christopher Nolan‘s biographical drama film Oppenheimer (2023).
For his television roles, he is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying as D.J. in the CBS movie Promise (1987) and Bill W. in the ABC film My Name Is Bill W. (1989). He has also played Roy Cohn in Citizen Cohn (1992) and Dick Fuld in Too Big to Fail (2011). He starred in the CBS legal series Shark (2006–2008), and had a recurring role in the Showtime crime series Ray Donovan (2013). He has voiced roles for Hercules (1997), Recess: School’s Out (2001), Stuart Little 2 (2002) and Surf’s Up (2007), as well as voicing himself once in The Simpsons (1993), and several times in Family Guy (2005–2016).
Woods has said that he owes his acting career to Tim Affleck, father of actors Ben and Casey Affleck. The senior Affleck was a stage manager at the Theatre Company of Boston, which Woods attended as a student.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Good Friday, also known as Great Friday, Holy Friday, or Sorrowful Friday, is a major Christian observance that commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. It is a time for Christians to reflect upon his suffering and willing sacrifice to atone for the sins of mankind. Churches may offer special services, as well as cover crosses with black cloth as a sign of mourning. For some worshippers, it is a day of fasting.
Good Friday occurs two days before Easter (which celebrates Christ’s resurrection). It is part of Holy Week, which starts with Palm Sunday and ends on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter. In certain countries, such as Canada, it is an official public holiday. In the United States, a number of states declare this a state holiday.
Traditional foods served on Good Friday include hot cross buns. These spiced sweet buns usually contain currants or raisins and are topped with icing in the shape of a cross.”
At 5:12 A.M. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, an earthquake woke up residents of San Francisco and tossed them from their beds. Little did they know that it was going to be one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of the United States. Read our article, Remembering the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.””
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
“What animal should you never play games with?”
A cheetah.
Died
- Edouard Albert Roche (astronomer) –
- Albert Einstein (physicist) –
- Thor Heyerdahl (Norwegian adventurer and author) –
- Dick Clark (entertainer) –
Born
- James Woods (actor) –
- Eric Roberts (actor) –
- Conan O’Brien (talk show host) –
- Melissa Joan Hart (actress) –
- Miguel Cabrera (baseball player) –
- America Ferrera (actress) –
Events
- San Francisco earthquake –
- Beatification ceremony for Joan of Arc held in Rome, Italy –
- Old Yankee stadium opened in N.Y.C. –
- First U.S. public laundromat opened, Fort Worth, Texas –
- League of Nations dissolved –
- Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in a civil ceremony –
- Lighted fishing pole patented –
- The longest professional baseball game started on this night. The 33-inning game spanned 3 days, beginning on April 18, extending into April 19, and ending on June 23. The Pawtucket (Rhode Island) Red Sox beat the Rochester (New York) Red Wings 3-2. Cal Ripken was playing 3rd base for the Red Wings –
- Beauty and the Beast was the first Disney animated film to become a Broadway musical. It opened on this day at New York’s Palace Theater –
- Cardinals gathered in Rome to select Pope John Paul II’s successor –
- Catherine Ndereba, of Kenya, won the 109th Boston Marathon for an unprecedented fourth time in the women’s division –
- Aaron Caissie set a world record by balancing 17 spoons on his face –
Weather
- The temperature soared to 90 degrees F in New York City –
- Logan Airport in Boston reported a temperature of 2 degrees F –
- The Red River in the Fargo-Moorhead region of North Dakota rose more than 20 feet above flood stage. –
- The temperature reached 104 degrees Fahrenheit in Del Rio, Texas –
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