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GUILTY AS SIN.

The New Yorker

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Running through James Woods's persona--the grave robber's face; the jittery, egomaniacal wheedling; the pimp's heart--is a seam of pure delight. No matter who else is in the frame, he's the one you watch, and he's watching himself, too. His signature villains-- Roy Cohn, H. R. Haldeman, and Byron De La Beckwith--are juiced on their own charisma, and figure they'll rule in Hell, if it comes to that. The freelancer Woods played in Oliver Stone's "Salvador" saw the possibilities in El Salvador despite the civil war: "Where else can you get a virgin to sit on your face for seven bucks? Seven bucks!"

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