RIP Phillip Seymour Hoffman

[Sirhornsalot]

Another Hollywood drug overdose.

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died of apparent drug overdose: NYPD source

Feb. 2, 2014, 1:47 PM EST

NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won an Oscar for the film "Capote," was found dead in his New York City apartment on Sunday of an apparent drug overdose, a New York Police Department source said.

The source said Hoffman, 46, was found dead after a friend of the actor placed a 911 emergency call. The source gave no further details but the New York Times, citing a law enforcement official, said investigators found a syringe in Hoffman's arm and an envelope containing what was believed to be heroin.

Born in upstate New York, Hoffman won an Academy Award for the 2005 biographical film "Capote," in which he played writer Truman Capote. He also received three Academy Award nominations as best supporting actor, for "The Master" in 2013, "Doubt" in 2009 and "Charlie Wilson's War" in 2008.

Hoffman burst onto the film scene after more than a dozen earlier roles, in 1997's "Boogie Nights," in which he played a lovelorn gay man in the movie about the porn industry.

While he appeared in blockbusters such as "Twister" and "The Hunger Games" series, Hoffman was more associated with the independent film world for his intense portrayals of often disturbing and complex characters in such films as "Happiness," in which he played an obscene phone caller, and "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead."

In the latter film he played a son who schemes to rob his parents' jewelry store, resulting in their deaths. But Hoffman could also play nice, as in "Magnolia," in which he played the role of an angelic nurse.

Hoffman spoke in the past of struggling with drugs, including a 2006 interview in which he told CBS he had abused "anything I could get my hands on. I liked it all."

(Reporting by Chris Francescani, Angela Moon and Chris Michaud; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli, Cynthia Johnston and Dan Grebler)

 

[utisdabomb12]

Hate to hear it. The Savages, Almost Famous and the Big Lebowski are three of my favorite movies.

 

[HornNdriftwood]

Sounds more like a NY,NY drug overdose.

Too bad, I really liked his work.

RIP

 

[primal defense]

Great actor, what a waste.

 

[McQ]

A true talent, unlike so many other celebs. R.I.P.

 

[Topstarr]

Drugs? only seen Twister. what a shame.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

He was great in Twister, but IMO one of my favorite roles he did was in Charlie Wilson's War. He played the CIA agent with no life but a big heart. Excellent work. He was also very good in Boogie Nights.

 

[Juan]

On the same day one heroin addict dies in a hotel room,

Another is doing the halftime show at the Super Bowl,

And Bob Dylan sells out and does a car commercial.

Strange day in America.

 

[POCKEY]

Lester Bangs is gone.

RIP

 

[aowells]

"Owning Mahoney" is a must watch if you haven't seen it. Apparently he had his own addictions to draw on for inspiration in that role.

Hell of an actor. A real shame. RIP

 

[RoyalCrowns]

Talented thespian. Hate to hear the sad news.

 

[NLeininger]

According to the police, he may have gotten some of the bad batch of heroin that has been killing hundreds around the country. Sad that 3 kids no longer have a father. Pathetic this guy couldn't stay sober for those kids.

 

[Juan]

my 2 cents worth --

Don't do heroin

 

It will kill you

 

[JimR]

over 50 baggies of heroin

numerous bottles of prescription pills

dead with a needle in his arm

three small children

disgusting

 

[BevoBlake]

Pathetic this guy couldn't stay sober for those kids.

Addiction isn't something that I'd readily call one pathetic for. It's a very serious condition that he suffered through long before having those children. And it's something he battled throughout his entire life with before it finally took him. Drug Addiction is right up there with having a mental condition and isn't always curable. By claiming one should just "stay sober", you're showing how very little you know of serious addictions and what they can do to someone. It's a slippery road. One I hope you never have to traverse yourself.

 

[JimR]

Addiction isn't something that I'd readily call one pathetic for. It's a very serious condition that he suffered through long before having those children. And it's something he battled throughout his entire life with before it finally took him. Drug Addiction is right up there with having a mental condition and isn't always curable. By claiming one should just "stay sober", you're showing how very little you know of serious addictions and what they can do to someone. It's a slippery road. One I hope you never have to traverse yourself.

I know plenty about it. please do not tell me the addict cannot do anything about it. that is BS. he was not "battling" anything with 50 bags of heroin in his house.

 

[NLeininger]

Addiction isn't something that I'd readily call one pathetic for. It's a very serious condition that he suffered through long before having those children. And it's something he battled throughout his entire life with before it finally took him. Drug Addiction is right up there with having a mental condition and isn't always curable. By claiming one should just "stay sober", you're showing how very little you know of serious addictions and what they can do to someone. It's a slippery road. One I hope you never have to traverse yourself.

Self-control is an easily attainable thing, if you want it bad enough. Dying to oneself when you have kids should be every parent's responsibility.

 

[BevoBlake]

I know plenty about it. please do not tell me the addict cannot do anything about it. that is BS. he was not "battling" anything with 50 bags of heroin in his house.

Not once in my entire comment did I ever so much as utter the words "the addict cannot do anything about it". That's you putting words in my mouth to try and sell your point. A point of which, you've failed to make. I responded to a comment in which a poster stated, one should simply "stay sober". And I therefore replied, letting said person know that it isn't as simple as "staying sober". I don't know your experiences with addiction. But I do know that your experiences with addiction, don't necessarily mean that you understand and/or comprehend the true grasp of what addiction does on a wide-spread level. Especially something as addictive as Heroin. It's easy for you and I to sit comfortable in our drug-free chairs and chastise a man for using drugs when he has children. It's easy for us to call him selfish and deem his actions irresponsible and unintelligible. And it's easy for us to sit back and look at him as if he wasn't a great father, due to the choices he make.

But what neither you or I can say is that we understand this man's mind. Neither you or I can claim to so much as grasp what this man went through in his life. We don't know his pain, his past or the skeletons that might have lied in his closet. To suggest so nonchalantly that Mr. Hoffman wasn't battling due to losing his life to drugs, makes you appear to be both egotistical and presumptuous. Both of which I don't believe you are. Some battles are won. And some battles are lost. But to lose a battle does not suggest that you never fought. At the end of the day, neither of us ever spent a day in Mr. Hoffman's shoes. Thus, I don't think it's either fair or reasonable for either of us in good consciousness, to speak ill of a man for losing his life to a battle he didn't win. Hoffman never murdered anyone. He never raped anyone. His gravest crime will have been to have left the Earth due to drugs and therefore leaving his children behind. Whether he did that by intention or not, none of us can say.

Self-control is an easily attainable thing, if you want it bad enough. Dying to oneself when you have kids should be every parent's responsibility.

Easily attainable? Humorous. It's been said, time and time again. Getting Sober is easy. Staying Sober is the hard part. Demons don't magically disappear when a child is born. How wonderful the world would be if they did. Hoffman had his own personal journey. He provided happiness and entertainment to millions of people for decades. He made mistakes in his life and those mistakes led to his unfortunate and untimely death. I won't call him for pathetic for that.

 

[JimR]

Not once in my entire comment did I ever so much as utter the words "the addict cannot do anything about it". That's you putting words in my mouth to try and sell your point. A point of which, you've failed to make. I responded to a comment in which a poster stated, one should simply "stay sober". And I therefore replied, letting said person know that it isn't as simple as "staying sober". I don't know your experiences with addiction. But I do know that your experiences with addiction, don't necessarily mean that you understand and/or comprehend the true grasp of what addiction does on a wide-spread level. Especially something as addictive as Heroin. It's easy for you and I to sit comfortable in our drug-free chairs and chastise a man for using drugs when he has children. It's easy for us to call him selfish and deem his actions irresponsible and unintelligible. And it's easy for us to sit back and look at him as if he wasn't a great father, due to the choices he make.
But what neither you or I can say is that we understand this man's mind. Neither you or I can claim to so much as grasp what this man went through in his life. We don't know his pain, his past or the skeletons that might have lied in his closet. To suggest so nonchalantly that Mr. Hoffman wasn't battling due to losing his life to drugs, makes you appear to be both egotistical and presumptuous. Both of which I don't believe you are. Some battles are won. And some battles are lost. But to lose a battle does not suggest that you never fought. At the end of the day, neither of us ever spent a day in Mr. Hoffman's shoes. Thus, I don't think it's either fair or reasonable for either of us in good consciousness, to speak ill of a man for losing his life to a battle he didn't win. Hoffman never murdered anyone. He never raped anyone. His gravest crime will have been to have left the Earth due to drugs and therefore leaving his children behind. Whether he did that by intention or not, none of us can say.

Easily attainable? Humorous. It's been said, time and time again. Getting Sober is easy. Staying Sober is the hard part. Demons don't magically disappear when a child is born. How wonderful the world would be if they did. Hoffman had his own personal journey. He provided happiness and entertainment to millions of people for decades. He made mistakes in his life and those mistakes led to his unfortunate and untimely death. I won't call him for pathetic for that.

i have very close personal experience with it. your attitude is that of an enabler.