Philip Seymour Hoffman Has Died

[mamaleh]

Just saw this startling headline in Variety. No details yet. He was one of my favorite actors.

Update: drug overdose. Very sad.

Ellen

[njr]

Yes, I saw that a couple hours ago. He was only 46 (but he looked 60 I think) I agree, very sad.

Nancy

[birchie]

Feb 2, 2014 18:00:51 GMT -5 njr said:

Yes, I saw that a couple hours ago. He was only 46 (but he looked 60 I think) I agree, very sad.

Nancy

Drug addiction is so insidious. He leaves 3 young children without a father. Very sad indeed.
Sue

[jo]

Many actors/performers with the gift of real talent have been lost due probably to the inability to deal with real-life issues or even how to deal with their callings. Very sad!

Perhaps a more balanced life, even in what they love to do, could alleviate the extreme stress from sharing the gift they have been richly endowed.

RIP.


Jo

[JH4HJ]

@realhughjackman
Philip Seymour Hoffman. One of the greatest actors I have ever seen on stage and film.
Love and prayers to his beautiful family.
4:54 PM - 3 Feb 2014

Full article

[JH4HJ]

Aaron Sorkin: Drugs not 'overdose' killed Philip Seymour Hoffman
Aaron Sorkin writes that Philip Seymour Hoffman once speculated about what his death from drugs would mean

Writer/director Aaron Sorkin worked with the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on two films - Charlie Wilson's War and Moneyball.

In an obituary published in Time magazine, Mr Sorkin calls the late Mr Hoffman a "kind, decent, magnificent, thunderous actor" who "dominated the real estate upon which every one of his characters walked".

He recounts how he and Mr Hoffman used to exchange stories about their battles with drug addiction and what one of their deaths from drugs would mean. "If one of us dies of an overdose," Mr Sorkin says Mr Hoffman told him, "probably 10 people who were about to won't."

In other words, as celebrities, their deaths would make headlines and possibly "scare someone clean".

Mr Sorkin asserts that media reports that Mr Hoffman died of a heroin overdose are misleading. It was the drugs that killed the actor, not the dosage.

"We should stop implying that if he'd just taken the proper amount then everything would have been fine," he writes. "He didn't die because he was partying too hard or because he was depressed - he died because he was an addict on a day of the week with a 'y' in it."