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It’s hard to pinpoint the moment when Woody Harrelson first became an on-screen punch line, a persona instead of a performer, the guy whose mere presence in a movie signals that you probably shouldn’t have wasted your nine bucks.Perhaps it was with 2003’s Anger Management, a dreadful Adam Sandler comedy that featured Harrelson in a small role as a transvestite security guard named Galaxia. At the time, it was the Midland-born actor’s first major film in nearly four years: This was his idea of a comeback? Or maybe it was the charmless performances that followed: the hapless FBI agent in the soporific jewel caper After the Sunset (2004), a labor lawyer in Niki Caro’s maudlin sexual harassment melodrama North Country (2005). But for the better…
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