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Nobody does worse better. Even when he's smiling and trying to look real nice, James Woods still looks like a shifty son of a bitch. Would you buy a used car off this man? Thought not; and after Videodrome, all kinds of secondhand household goods are going to be just a little suspect too.
David Thomson has him down pat: for all that we know in this world that good-looking people can be finks, and an ugly face can mask a heart of gold, in that other world - the one up there relayed to us at 24 frames per second - things are more simple; and someone with so narrow a face, eyes so close together, is doomed forever to play cheats, liars, and rats.
Tonight's superior made-for-TV offering, Citizen Cohn, sees Woods play one of the ultimate bad guys,...