Philip Seymour Hoffman RIP

Just heard Incredible actor.

www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/movies/philip...ctor-dies-at-46.html

This is a real bummer. He was a genius. RIP.

Fucking drug addiction man---if the account is true, dude was clean for 20+ years after some hard core addiction and then got back into it last year.

I never knew he had a past problem with drugs but yeah, the syringe was reportedly in his arm. so heroin

So sad. He was probably my favourite actor. RIP.

most upset I've ever been over a celebrity death was Chris Farley but this came close when I found out. What a frickin' waste. He still had dozens of amazing performances left in him. My wife was hit harder than I was. He was her favourite. Very sad.

I guess we'll see a nice thing for him at the Oscars.

I was bummed out this morning but now I'm just mad about it.

Heroin fucking sucks.

To compound the tragedy, he had three kids under age 11. I am incredibly sad about this.

Black Barney wrote: most upset I've ever been over a celebrity death was Chris Farley but this came close when I found out. What a frickin' waste. He still had dozens of amazing performances left in him. My wife was hit harder than I was. He was her favourite. Very sad.

I guess we'll see a nice thing for him at the Oscars.

fuck that shit, he had a 5 and 7 year old boy and a 10 year old girl (and a wife) didn't he?

edit: or what Jeb said, except I would not qualify that shit with "to compound the tragedy" since that IS the tragedy, and everything else is just a shitty side dish.

Great actor, bad addict.

That "Drop Dead Fred" Heroin/Fentanyl junk going around killed a buddy of mine too. Bad shit.

I was pretty upset at this, although celebrity news usually don't affect me and I only heard about it by chance. He was one of my favourite actors. He alway portrayed characters with a certain unique warmth. He was in many of the films I watched after moving away from a mainstream taste after I got 18; Capote in particular.

Drugs suck.

Black Barney wrote: most upset I've ever been over a celebrity death was Chris Farley

Great, I didn't even know Chris Farley was dead. Thanks Barney. Watching Beverely Hills Ninja will never be the same to me now.

Don't make fun! The man was a genius!

But yeah, so sad for Hoffman. Capote, The Savages... and his minor presence in some movies added so much to those films (Big Lebowski, Red Dragon).

Of course it's sad and stuff that he has three kids and a wife but heroin addicts with wives and children die all the time. His loss is very sad for his family but we feel his loss because of the loss of a great artist. Any candle that burns out too early is always felt in this manner (Lennon, Cobain, Ledger). I don't think it shows a lack of empathy to mourn what could have been.

Black Barney wrote: But yeah, so sad for Hoffman. Capote, The Savages... and his minor presence in some movies added so much to those films (Big Lebowski, Red Dragon).

Scotty in Boogie Nights

ldsdbomber wrote: fuck that shit, he had a 5 and 7 year old boy and a 10 year old girl (and a wife) didn't he?

edit: or what Jeb said, except I would not qualify that shit with "to compound the tragedy" since that IS the tragedy, and everything else is just a shitty side dish.

Yeah, but nobody here knows his children.

They know him for his great contributions to cinema and that's why his loss upsets people.

Fathers of young children, unfortunately, die all the time.

Schweig! wrote:

ldsdbomber wrote: fuck that shit, he had a 5 and 7 year old boy and a 10 year old girl (and a wife) didn't he?

edit: or what Jeb said, except I would not qualify that shit with "to compound the tragedy" since that IS the tragedy, and everything else is just a shitty side dish.

Yeah, but nobody here knows his children.

They know him for his great contributions to cinema and that's why his loss upsets people.

Fathers of young children, unfortunately, die all the time.

and every time I hear about it I'm sad. You don't need to know anything about his cinema contributions to be sad that a 5,7 and 10 year old lost their dad. You dont need to know his children, especially if you have your own, to empathise most strongly with that aspect of this story (even if I agree he was a great actor, but hey, they do alright for poncing around pretending shit so I don't feel sad because he won't make any more movies).

YMMV but the only gut punch I got from this story was, fuck, thats shit for his kids.

I wonder if "The Master" played a role in this...maybe the Scientologists did him in. Or not.

He was great in Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as the aforementioned roles.