![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I generally do not with any entertainers. While I truly admired his skill as an actor I did not follow his personal life. When my son told me how he was found and how he died I shook my head not only in disbelief but in anger. He loved Hoffman as an actor as I do, as most everyone does. My son told me he didn't believe it either when his girlfriend called to tell him but that he had verified it online. The series of rebuttals poured out of me, "Get outa here"- "No way" - "I don't believe it!" And. Hitting mute, I called him to come in and he told me that Phillip Seymour Hoffman was dead. This morning as I worked in my office listening to Grandhorse much too loudy I could barely hear my son knocking on the door. My favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman performances are Scotty J in Boogie Nights, Brandt in The Big Lebowski, Mitch in Patch Adams, Phil Parma in Magnolia, Lester Bangs in Almost Famous, Dean Trumbell in Punch-Drunk Love, Sandy Lyle in Along Came Poly, Truman Capote in Capote, Father Brenden Flynn in Doubt, and Lancaster Dodd in The Master. He may of been in some flawed movies but I never saw a flawed performance. A truly gifted actor, he has moved me to tears, seriously creeped me out, scared the hell out of me and make me die with laughter. Often times when watching even the best actor, you can find yourself recognizing mannerisms and facial expressions borrowed from other performances but not with Hoffman. In countless roles that followed, Hoffman was able to transform himself into characters in such an adept and moving way that none of them intersected. His endearing and heartbreaking portrayal of Scotty J, the insecure boom mic operator who had a mad deep crush on Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) was brilliant. The first time I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman on screen was in Paul Thomas Anderson's amazing Boogie Nights. ![]()
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