Woody Harrelson

[sambone]

I have to go with woody, although i look up to him for whats hes does for Hemp, he is a vegan and that makes him my Hero.

GO WOODY!

http://www.voiceyourself.com/home.asp

[saintfrancis]

woody is definately a hero of mine as well.

[Beanqueen]

and oh he's fine!!! :love:

[VeganMegan]

Woodstock Fest Names Harrelson Honorary Maverick (http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---18376,00.html)

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The Woodstock Film Festival has bestowed Woody Harrelson with this year's Honorary Maverick Award.

Officials for the festival, which runs Sept. 17-21 in five New York towns, say that Harrelson deserves the honor for his "fierce independence regarding art and politics," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The award takes its name from the original Woodstock arts colony of the early 1900s, which valued independence and social responsibility expressed through the arts.


Harrelson, a vegan and certified yoga instructor, is a longtime environmental activist and has been recognized by the American Oceans Campaign, Rainforest Action Network and the Colorado Hemp Initiative Project.

He is a vocal champion of legalizing industrial hemp as a solution to the worldwide fiber shortage. The actor also owns his own small piece of rainforest in Costa Rica.

Harrelson will next star the Brett Ratner-directed "After the Sunset" alongside Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek.

[misanthropy]

Woody is awesome! :)

http://www.sphinxproductions.com/pages/film_gofurther.html

[VeganVeronique]

Moby!

love his music, went to his concert and had an orgasm!!! seriously, listen to his albums!!! GOOD STUFF :D

p/s think if we try hard, we can make a list of all the vegan celebrities? i am interested to know this :)

[Adams]

Originally posted by MsVeganVampire
p/s think if we try hard, we can make a list of all the vegan celebrities? i am interested to know this :) It's already been done by The Vegan Society (http://www.vegansociety.com/html/info/info32.html) and by FamousVeggie.com (http://www.famousveggie.com/).

(FamousVeggie.com doesn't seem to be working now, but they have a pretty big list.)

[VeganMegan]

Cheers to Woody
Actor directs his first play in Toronto
By JIM SLOTEK -- Toronto Sun (http://www.canoe.ca/Theatre/sep20_woody-sun.html)


TORONTO -- While wandering with Woody Harrelson through the nascent New Age downtown Toronto marketplace that is The Distillery, you sense the same vibe Al Waxman gave off strolling past stalls on TV's King Of Kensington.

"Thank God you're eating!" interrupts a gallery owner as the vegan Harrelson chows down al fresco on a large bowl of complex greens and beany things.

The sentiment is repeated by various passers-by.

The owner of an organic bakery insists Harrelson take, gratis, a lovely smelling loaf of bread the approximate size, shape and weight of a curling stone. It comes out that Harrelson has just completed a worrisome 33-day fast, turning everybody on the grounds into Jewish mothers.

"Maybe as active as I was, I needed to be eating," Harrelson says, by way of apologia for his boniness. "If you're gonna be doing 40 (days), you'd better be laid-back. And I was constantly moving, running, everything."

The man who was Woody on Cheers was Celebrity King of the Distillery by dint of the fact that he'd been pedalling his bike there daily to rehearse his directorial debut, This Is Our Youth -- the moody and raw Kenneth Lonergan play about three alienated children of privilege in 1982.

Starring Fabrizio Filippo, Marya Delver and Marcello Cabezas, This Is Our Youth opens Monday at the Berkeley Street Theatre.

The Distillery also was Sustainability Central during the filmfest blitz for Go Further, the Ron Mann doc about Woody's Pacific Coast ecotrek by bike and hemp-fuelled bus with assorted pals. The apex of his campaign was his mass yoga session at U of T with an eye on a Guinness record. But he found time to expound good-naturedly on subjects as varied as marijuana-law reform and "live" foods.

"We're such a smart animal," he says of the latter issue. "We're so clever that we're the most hospitalized and drugged species on the planet.

"I was in Toronto once 18 years ago for a TV movie. Ted (Danson) was here doing Three Men And A Baby. I was hanging out with those guys and never saw the city. Mostly I just had a nightlife. So this time I was surprised and delighted. I didn't know it was such a progressive city. And now I'm just so diggin' it.

"My being here is partly the result of a commitment I made five years ago. I'd been doing movie after movie and compromising the time with my kids (he, his wife Laura and two daughters live in Hawaii in a solar-powered home). I made a commitment to stop doing movies for a while and do a play a year, to just get involved."

So he was prime when Cabezas (who also produced this production) sent a script. "He and Marya met me in New York and read it, and it was friggin' great. I was like, 'These guys are fantastic.' So I said, 'Yeah, let's do it.' "

Harrelson says he was in London, England, when This Is Our Youth played with Matt Damon and Summer Phoenix in starring roles. "I'd ride my bike past the theatre every day, and never saw it."

"Some of my friends are like, 'What're you doing a play in Toronto for?' They don't understand, it's just pure esthetic. It's not like it's gonna benefit my career."

In This Is Our Youth, alpha male Warren (Filippo) spends a night alternating between bullying his confused friend Dennis (Cabezas) and looking for drugs. Dennis, meanwhile, hooks up with Jessica, who despairs for a future where activism is dead and nothing matters.

"I relate to a lot of what's going on in this," Harrelson says. "At that time, the '60s revolution had petered out into the '80s me-istic, money-money-money, success, Reaganomics, trickle down. And it was a hard thing for anyone with a conscience to live through."

But it ill-reflects the optimism of Harrelson's zeal today. "I've come to think of the play's ending as hopeful. That could be me, though. I'm a pretty hopeful guy."

[vegbrain]

Woody's montage of good things. If anyone hasn't seen it yet...

http://www.voiceyourself.com/03_thoughtsfromwithin/VoiceYourselfPoem.swf

Heads up Climbo and schmeel...

[FarmerStephen]

Woody spent a couple of months at my house outside of Arcata, when we were organizing Headwaters actions and the Golden Gate actions....

He was super mellow, but we think it's because he constantly puffed. He introduced me to the love of braised Tofu in Bragg's and Garlic, served over Polenta, and topped with Vinegar steamed Kale. He was a boon to the local dealers, that's for sure.....;)