Spend any time with Woody Harrelson and you quickly realize that he’s one of the sharpest tools in the Hollywood woodshed, a man passionate and educated about a variety of topics.
So how did it happen that he spent so much time in his career playing Class A idiots?
Probably cause he’s good at it, of course. But maybe there’s something else to it?
“Savvy is never a term that’s been used on,” Harrelson chuckled recently, talking about his new project, “Transsiberian,” where he plays, you guessed it, another guy who has the lights on but nobody home.
Reading about Wesley Snipes' recent troubles with the government, which culminated in April when the veteran actor was sentenced to three years in prison for willful failure to file federal income tax returns, fills me, I painfully admit, with a certain sense of schadenfreude. 
It's a good time to be Woody Harrelson these days. After a starring turn in this year's Best Picture winner, the veteran actor has no less than nine films in various stages of development.
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