This day in history: American actor James Woods was born on this day (April 19) in 1947. The first I've seen him in was The Onion Field alongside Ted Danson in 1979. That was a great movie by a great writer (Joseph Wambaugh).
Woods has what is probably the highest IQ in Hollywood (180-184) but I often see him excluded from online lists of the highest IQ's. Consider that Albert Einstein's IQ is said to be 160.
Today Woods is known for being critical of the Left, and he has been kicked off Twitter a few times, despite being one of the more interesting accounts to follow. After Elon Musk's release of the Twitter Files, journalist Matt Taibbi reported that the Democratic National Committee requested a tweet made by Woods, related to Hunter Biden, be removed from Twitter.
Woods also has an interesting 9/11 story. From Wikipedia: "On August 1, 2001, Woods was on a flight from Boston to Los Angeles. On the flight he noticed four men near him acting suspiciously. He said that they never drank anything, ordered food service or talked to anybody, just whispering to each other. Woods reported his suspicions to the co-pilot in flight, and he claimed that those concerns were passed on to the FAA. On the evening of September 11, Woods called the FBI and repeated his concerns; they interviewed him at his home the next morning. Woods believed that he had encountered four of the nineteen terrorists/hijackers, who were just on the flight to study it in preparation for the attacks. Woods claims he has been interviewed several times by FBI agents regarding this incident. He has confirmed that he looked at pictures of the hijackers and has identified two terrorists as being among the men that he had seen on his flight."
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