Posted on 01/03/2017 7:24:58 PM PST by LouieFisk
"James Woods is continuing to pursue a $10 million defamation lawsuit against an anonymous individual who tweeted Woods was a "cocaine addict." Not even the reported death of the defendant is stopping the actor. On Tuesday, over objections that Woods was looking to harass a dead man's family, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that the attorney for the defendant must identify his deceased client."
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
$10M ... that’s a piece of candy!
This is what truth and persistence is about. The man is dead, what does the family want to hide?
Obviously, it’s Peter Griffen.
I have always been rather fond of Mr. Woods .
For those not aware of THE salient fact in this case - it is that James Wood is an avowed Conservative and is hated by virtually everyone in, not just Hollywood, Kalifornia.
James Woods is a freak’in superhero. Guy loves to spell out the truth.
If you want to accuse him of criminal activity and using cocaine would certainly be one, prepare to face the consequences: dead or alive. ;)
Number one:
Woods DID NOT seek to trash the family or state he would try to harm or ruin them. He focused on the jack ass who slandered him. I applaud him for doing it.
Number two:
This attorney of the defendant is a great example of why most folks think attorneys are lying sacks of cow ‘stuff’.
Number three:
Making it clear you can’t state that people are cocaine addicts when they aren’t, is a very important point to make. Going after the guy’s estate is a great way to drive that home.
If I were Woods, I’d get judgement and donate it back to the family.
The precedent would be set, and the family would not be harmed.
If the guy was well healed, then I might temper that with a sizeable taking, leaving a major portion for the family.
Most actors are total idiots.
James Woods went to M.I.T...!
(and that ain’t Men’s Institute of Typing)
Thanks.
I don’t use that much and it did get away from me.
To me ‘well healed’ makes more sense.
I’m not sure where the saying came from, and perhaps knowing that I might buy in more.
When I think of ‘healed’ in financial terms, I think of someone very well off. Healed meaning someone who has overcome and is very well off now. As in healed.
Obviously that isn’t the basis for it, so in the end I am wrong here.
Well heeled = nice, well maintained shoes
Mrs BN acted with James Woods in a play.... in high school, though.
Then she met me, and he never had a chance!...
/s
LOL
‘cause the gut is probably not really dead.
And as I found out, well heeled as in the spur added to a fighting cock’s leg in back.
This still causes me to wonder why this would become a phrase addressing good financial standing.
I get the shoe reference though, and that does seem to make a certain amount of sense.
To me, I’ve always considered it to mean well endowed financially. Well healed. I was wrong though, so the explanation is pointless.
Thanks.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/well-heeled.html
I always thought it had to do with the heels of shoes. A rich man could afford new shoes and the heels would not be worn. If a frugal person, he might even have new heels put on.
A poor man would wear his shoes for a long time and the heels would become worn and scuffed, and he might not even be able to afford the new heels.
When I was a girl, we used to put metal taps on our shoes to help protect the heels from getting worn off.
“Well-heeled” has the same source as it’s opposite, which is “down at the heels.” Shoes have always been used as a proxy for prosperity or the lack of it.
If this is California, a community property state, is the dead man’s wife at risk of losing the house/assets if the case goes on?
Well, it seems you were right. I looked up the root from which the phrase seems to have come from.
Up a few posts I linked it.
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