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[–] [email protected] 33 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

First off off, it’s not true, and second off, I don't want to answer questions about that. Lets focus on Rampart people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Had me in the first half ngl

[–] [email protected] 26 points 22 hours ago

So you might say Woody is a natural born killer?

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Harrelson's son, Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961), is actor Woody Harrelson. According to Woody, his father disappeared from the family's home in Houston in 1968, leaving his wife Diane to raise Woody and his two brothers. Woody lost track of his father until 1981, when news broke of Harrelson's arrest for the murder of Judge Wood. During an interview in November 1988, Woody revealed that he visited his father regularly in federal prison, although he still harbored mixed feelings about him, saying: 

My father is one of the most articulate, well-read, charming people I've ever known. Still, I'm just now gauging whether he merits my loyalty or friendship. I look at him as someone who could be a friend more than someone who was a father.

In April 2023, actor Matthew McConaughey claimed that he and Woody Harrelson, who have been long-time friends, could potentially be half-brothers, implying that Charles Harrelson could also be his father. According to McConaughey, his mother claimed to have known Woody's father around the time that McConaughey was conceived, and the two actors have discussed taking a DNA test to be certain.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Harrelson’s son, Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961), is actor Woody Harrelson.

Alright

Woody revealed that he visited his father regularly in federal prison, although he still harbored mixed feelings about him

alright

In April 2023, actor Matthew McConaughey claimed that he and Woody Harrelson, who have been long-time friends, could potentially be half-brothers

alright?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Tnat be fucking wild, because they played brothers in a movie once.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

In the mid 90s, when I first learned about Matthew McConaughey, I did so through a magazine article about a film he was in, I saw his face in one of the pictures and I just thought it was Woody until I read his name. I was so confused at first, did Woody Harrelson change his name after getting a hair transplant or what? So, to me, them being brothers makes complete sense.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s just like Bill Burr and Billy Corgan: I don’t understand why these people don’t just fucking take the DNA test

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In No Country For Old Men, they mention this killing in a throwaway line (it involves contract killing and stars Woody Harrelson)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just watched Hit Man, which claims there aren't any such thing as hit men in real life - clearly that's not the case!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There are, but they work directly for criminal organizations. They don't go hiring themselves out to strangers like morons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

lol cops do stings where they pretend to be hitmen for hire.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, because the people hiring them are stupid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Keep it in your pants, perv.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume I have pants

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Keep it in his pants?