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Woodstock '94
Woodstock '94, also called Mudstock, was the 25th-anniversary rock festival held August 12-14, 1994 in Saugerties, New York, with about 300,000 attendees, $135 tickets, PolyGram backing, pay-per-view broadcast, and famous mud chaos.
Woodstock '99
Woodstock '99 was a three-day rock festival held July 23-25, 1999 at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York, planned for 250,000 paying attendees. Extreme heat, $4-5 bottled water, assaults, and a closing-night riot with fires and looting defined it.
Woodstock (film)
Woodstock (1970) is Michael Wadleigh's Oscar-winning Warner Bros. documentary of the 1969 Bethel, New York festival, edited by Thelma Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese, shot with 16 cameras, later expanded in a 1994 director's cut.
Woodstock (Peanuts)
Woodstock is the small yellow bird in Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip, Snoopy's best friend and Beagle Scout second-in-command. First appearing in 1967, he was named June 22, 1970 after the 1969 Woodstock music festival; only Snoopy understands his chicken-scratch speech.
Woodstock (song)
"Woodstock" is a 1969 Joni Mitchell song about the Woodstock festival, which she missed; written in a New York hotel room, it became the festival's anthem via Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 1970 Déjà Vu cover.
Woodstock 50
Woodstock 50 was a planned 50th-anniversary festival announced by Michael Lang for August 16-18, 2019 at Watkins Glen, New York, with Jay-Z and Miley Cyrus booked. It collapsed through the Dentsu funding dispute, permit rejections, and artist withdrawals, and was canceled July 31, 2019.
Woodward Opera House
The Woodward Opera House is a restored 19th-century theater in downtown Mount Vernon, Ohio, built in 1851, closed in the 1920s, and reopened in 2019 after restoration.
Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are aerophones sounded by a vibrating air column, either an air jet (flute) or reed (clarinet, saxophone, oboe, bassoon), with pitch set by tone holes; classified by sound production, not material, and modernized by Boehm's 19th-century keywork.
Woodworking (novel)
Woodworking is Emily St. James's 2025 debut novel (Crooked Media Reads/Zando), about a closeted trans teacher, Erica Skyberg, and trans student Abigail Hawkes in Mitchell, South Dakota, in fall 2016; the title is trans slang for disappearing into the woodwork.
Woody (Toy Story)
Sheriff Woody is the pull-string cowboy doll protagonist of Disney-Pixar's Toy Story series, voiced by Tom Hanks; Andy's favorite toy and the toys' leader, based on Woody's Roundup, he passes his badge to Jessie in Toy Story 4 and returns in Toy Story 5 (2026).
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (Allan Stewart Konigsberg, born 1935) is an American director, screenwriter, and comedian, maker of Annie Hall and over 50 films, a record 16 Best Original Screenplay nominations, and subject of Dylan Farrow's abuse allegations, which he denies.
Woody Allen filmography
Woody Allen filmography: the films written and directed by Woody Allen, 50 directed features from What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) and Annie Hall (1977) to Coup de Chance (2023), with a 51st film shooting in Madrid.
Woody Boyd
Woody Boyd (Woodrow Huckleberry Tiberius Boyd) is the naive Indiana bartender played by Woody Harrelson on NBC's Cheers, seasons 4–11 (1985–1993), introduced after Nicholas Colasanto's Coach died; Harrelson won an Emmy for the role.
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, 1912–1967), Oklahoma-born American folk singer-songwriter, wrote "This Land Is Your Land" and over 3,000 songs about the Dust Bowl, migrants, and unions; died of Huntington's disease in New York.
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson (born 1961) is an American actor, Emmy winner for Cheers (Woody Boyd) and True Detective star; three Oscar nominations (The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Messenger, Three Billboards), Hunger Games' Haymitch, activist and Maui resident.
Woody Harrelson filmography
Woody Harrelson filmography: screen roles of the American actor (born 1961), from Woody Boyd on Cheers (1985-1993) to White Men Can't Jump, The People vs. Larry Flynt, True Detective, The Hunger Games, and Brothers (2026).
Woody McClain
Woody McClain (Edward Woody McClain) is an American actor, producer, and former professional dancer from Charleston, South Carolina, known for playing Bobby Brown in The New Edition Story and Cane Tejada in Power Book II: Ghost.
Woody Shaw
Woody Shaw (1944–1989), American jazz trumpeter and composer of hard bop and post-bop; played with Eric Dolphy, Horace Silver, and Freddie Hubbard; known for pentatonic superimposition and albums Rosewood and The Moontrane.
Woody Strode
Woody Strode (Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode, 1914-1994), American football player and character actor. One of the first Black NFL players with the 1946 Los Angeles Rams; starred in Sergeant Rutledge, Spartacus, and John Ford Westerns.
Woody Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker, also El Pajaro Loco, is Walter Lantz's anthropomorphic woodpecker cartoon character, debuting 1940 in the Andy Panda short Knock Knock, voiced by Mel Blanc then Gracie Lantz, over 250 Universal cartoons.
Woody Woodpecker (2017 film)
Woody Woodpecker is a 2017 live-action/computer-animated family comedy directed by Alex Zamm, released in Brazil as Pica-Pau: O Filme, in which Woody defends his forest from a lawyer's mansion.
Woody Woodpecker (2018 TV series)
Woody Woodpecker (2018 TV series), also called Pica-Pau, is an American animated web series rebooting Walter Lantz's classic shorts, released on official YouTube channels in Portuguese, Spanish, and English from 2018 to 2023, with Eric Bauza voicing Woody.
Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp
Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp (2024) is a Netflix live-action/animated family comedy sequel to the 2017 Woody Woodpecker film, directed by Jon Rosenbaum, with Eric Bauza voicing Woody at Camp Woo Hoo.
Wookiee
Wookiees ('People of the Trees' in Shyriiwook) are Star Wars' tall, furry humanoid species from the forest planet Kashyyyk, famous through Chewbacca, enslaved by the Empire; the word itself was coined in THX 1138.
Woollim Entertainment (울림엔터테인먼트)
Woollim Entertainment (울림엔터테인먼트) is a Seoul-based K-pop label founded in 2003, home to INFINITE, Golden Child, and DRIPPIN, merged into SM C&C in 2013 and spun off as an independent corporation in 2016.
Woolworths Group (Australia)
Woolworths Group Limited (ABN 88 000 014 675), Australian retailer founded with its first Sydney store in December 1924, renamed from Woolworths Limited in 2017; holds 38% of Australian supermarket grocery sales per the ACCC 2025 inquiry.
Woolworths Supermarkets
Woolworths Supermarkets, the Fresh Food People brand of Woolworths Group, is Australia's largest supermarket chain: founded 1924 in Sydney, 38% grocery market share, 1,112 Australian and 181 New Zealand stores, subject to the mandatory Grocery Code and ACCC pricing proceedings.
Wooly Bully
Wooly Bully: 1964 novelty rock and roll song by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, written by Domingo Samudio, based on "Hully Gully Now". Hit No. 2 on the Hot 100 yet was Billboard's No. 1 song of 1965; three million sold, Grammy Hall of Fame 2009.
Woonhak
Woonhak (김운학), full name Kim Woon-hak, is a South Korean singer and songwriter, the youngest member of KOZ Entertainment's boy group BOYNEXTDOOR, which debuted in 2023.
Woordfees
The Woordfees, formally the Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees, is an annual, predominantly Afrikaans arts festival held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, drawing around 50,000 festivalgoers a year.