FAMILY, FRIENDS GATHER TO RECALL, TELL STORIES ABOUT WRITING COACH.Byline: SUSAN ABRAM Staff Writer SHERMAN OAKS -- James Woodson spent much of his life helping others tell stories that could be made into movies. On Monday, family members, his wife and friends held hands around the apartment courtyard where Woodson took his last breath to tell stories about him. ``He had always wanted to be close to Hollywood,'' said his sister Beth Woodson. ``His first brush with show business was to dress like Mr. Peanut Mr. Peanut is the advertising logo and mascot of Planters, an American snack-food company and division of Kraft Foods. He consists of a drawing of an anthropomorphic peanut in its shell dressed in the formal clothing of an old-fashioned gentleman: a top hat, monocle, white gloves, .'' Loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl said Woodson, who was 52, was a good-natured prankster, once nominated as a class clown in high school in Connecticut where he grew up. He made friends fast. He doted dote intr.v. dot·ed, dot·ing, dotes To show excessive fondness or love: parents who dote on their only child. [Middle English doten. on his new bride, Pina. But police say Woodson also may have been the unintended victim of a stray bullet that lodged in his back last week as he was standing within the courtyard of his apartment complex on the 4900 block of Kester Street. The investigation is ongoing and a ballistic analysis is under way, said Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . Detective Craig Rhudy.
``It appears still that it was a stray bullet,'' Rhudy said. ``Our focus right now is outside the apartment complex.'' Woodson's family and friends comforted his bride of six months, who smiled, then wept as she shared the story of how they met on Friendster.com, how they corresponded for nearly two years, and how he had flown to Indonesia to meet her for the first time. Some from the local Indonesian community said that while they knew Woodson for only a short time, he made a big impression. ``I miss him,'' said Andy Sitepu. ``He was very friendly to us. He was valuable to our community.'' Around the apartment complex courtyard, residents displayed hundreds of photographs of the Woodsons on various trips together. Woodson's Underwood portable typewriter typewriter, instrument for producing by manual operation characters similar to those of printing. Corresponding to each key on the instrument's keyboard is a steel type. was displayed next to a silver platter One of the disks in a hard disk drive. Each platter provides a top and bottom recording surface. There may be only one or several platters in a drive with each platter having its own pair of read/write heads. See magnetic disk. the couple received as a wedding present. Woodson worked as a writing coach and has been credited as working as an assistant editor for the film ``Honey, I Shrunk shrunk v. A past tense and a past participle of shrink. shrunk Verb a past tense and past participle of shrink shrunk, shrunken shrink the Kids,'' as well as other films. ``I asked him why he was so good to me and he said because if my wife is happy, then I'm happy,'' Pina Woodson said through tears. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why he left me so fast. He took care of me and I didn't have a chance to take care of him.'' susan.abram(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3664 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Friends and family gather around Pina Woodson as they pause for a moment of silence during a memorial for her husband, James Woodson, on Monday. Woodson was killed by a stray bullet outside his Sherman Oaks apartment. Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer (2) WOODSON |
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