Phillip Seymour Hoffman Dead
 

Another great talent succombs to addiction

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...drug-overdose/

Great actor...what a ****ing shame.

just heard the news. i feel for his family.

Unforunately when you choose to dance with the devil this is often the outcome.

Matter of time. Stay off the sauce kids.

now they are saying he was found with the syringe still in his arm. Terrible.

and what they think are packets of heroin.

Sadder thing is that he was clean for 20 years and then relapsed in 2012.

Loved this guy. Crazy talented. RIP

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/1...offman-dead-46

A succinct appreciation by The New Republic's David Thomson.

Good actor. Sorry to hear of his passing.

Kev, I was reading about this all week in the local press, this is some bad stuff that is out and about.

Just read the street price of Ace of Spades/Queens stamped heroin, now known as killer went up.

That's how sick the habit is.

Very sad
 

Tremendously talented actor. Sad his kids will grow up without a father. :( He obviously made a horrible choice and payed the ultimate price. His choices of film roles were very strong. Everyone's seen and knows how brilliant he was in Capote for which he won the Oscar. I found a clip on YouTube of a brilliant film from 1998 that he was very good in Todd Solondz's "Happiness" where he played the very disturbed Allen. Warning graphic language in this clip.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-3oeveop4o
Happiness (7/10) Movie CLIP - Prank Call (1998) HD

Was fortunate enough to be 'forced' to watch 'A Late Quartet' on a flight a year or so back. It focused on Christopher Walken's character but Hoffman accented the flick like red on a Ferrari.

Strongly recommended

such a waste...one of my 15 yo's favorite actors. Thats saying a lot...such a waste

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=066BFGk6QvA

Charlie Wilson's War

Another great performance. A waste, I agree.

Quite a stash at his apartment.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...833869528.html

46, terrible waste of a great actor...


http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=850644

From the cool Esquire feature of actors at Sundance as despicted in tintype style:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture...s-2014#slide-1

Thought a final review I read, 'ultimately he failed in his most important role as a father and partner' pretty much covered this tragedy.

So many artistic greats gone so early makes one think drugs may have been involved in not only their deaths but?

Is heroin an artistic steroid?

frank lucas thought so..

Heroin? I doubt it....You are mixing up causation with correlation. Actors tend to be risk takers which is why they gravitate towards drugs.

Did you just make this up?

Heroin is taking a risk?

Or are you saying they're prone to risky behavior, heroin being one of them?

Prone of course

Nothing I said was earth shattering. Common sense.