Well, before you start passing judgment on my judgment of Harrleson and son, what exactly do you know of the case, Pike? It was a well publicized case here in Texas, where a Mexican drug lord hires the murder of a US federal judge. I've covered crime, I've covered drugs, I've covered cops and courts, and my sympathy is with the dead judge, his family, and the federal and state officers who brought the killer to justice. I'm quite comfortable in my prejudice against Harrelson and son because there was ample evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that they were both lying when they claimed he didn't do it.
Woody testified at the initial trial? I thought he was only involved with the attempt to overturn the conviction much later? I don't know many of the details of the case other than the basics, no, and the attempts to overturn the conviction were all unsuccessful. But whether his father did or didn't commit the murder makes absolutely zero difference in how I view the son as an actor.
I'm exercising my right as a citizen to dislike a particular actor for any reason or no reason whatsoever. Woody used to be funny on Cheers, but I haven't cared for any of his subsequent roles.
Congratulations! And I'm exercising the same right to call you kooky for being "put off" of a movie adapted by the Coens from a novel by Cormac McCarthy directed by the Coens where Woody is a supporting actor just because that man's father is a murderer. And since Woody became a regular on
"Cheers" after the murder of the judge, I'm not really getting why you let him slide there. But on the other hand, I don't really care.
Now if Woody produces and stars in a project that attempts to somehow clear his father's name, I hear ya'. But as an actor for hire in things that have nothing to do with any of it? Yeah, that's silly. To me. But, you know, knock yourself out.
Also, being a reporter and Texan and all, do you also believe that Charles Harrelson is one of the men on the grassy knoll in Dallas who
really assassinated JFK?