Always felt a little connected to him because he's just a few years older than me and grew up two suburbs away. Never met him or saw him at the grocery store or anything, but he was a local boy done good. Total bummer.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
A lot of my friends have stories about running into him around Atlanta over the past couple years. Sad to say I'll never be able to have my own story like that. You were awesome, PSH.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
awful. my dad's a huge fan; rare that we both like things. still hope it's a hoax.
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
Nope. Confirmations popping up all over the place.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
This is so so sad. He had three young children. He was a super talented motherfucker, someone I would watch in anything, ANYTHING.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
you are fucking joking. what the hell.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/US/philip-seymour-hoffman-dead-46/story?id=22335771
Terrible. Always thought he was best in under the radar stuff like Owning Mahowny.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
awful news
― gbx, Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
The first movie I noticed him in, and the first scene of his that lingered with me for a long, long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTMYcSU_HCc
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
I thought about that scene and then thought about him in MI:3 and the talented mr ripley, polar opposite roles. Equally great in all of them and in everything in between.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
Oh man. Love love love PSH. I even liked him in movies I didn't like. me too. this hit me like a ton of bricks for some reason.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
damn. <3 this dude
― condo associations are people my friend (will), Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
xp for clarity -- "for some reason" = i really liked his work and felt warmly toward him as a human being. RIP PSH, you were great.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
same Ned. that performance blew me away at the time because he was playing a type of dude i'd known before but never seen represented onscreen, let alone so perfectly. watching it again not that long ago i was struck by how amazingly thought out all his little gestures and shit were
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
Rip
― Mordy , Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
yeah honestly i think most of my favorite PSH performances are ones where the movie wasn't that great but he was just fantastic in them anyway xp
― scott c-word (some dude), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
WSJ story now unavailable, which gave me faint hope it wasn't true, but the WSJ reporter is still tweeting details, so
https://twitter.com/Pervaizistan/status/430052209942753280
― Alba, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
Being updated I suspect. Too many other sources reporting it now.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
CNN and NYT are reporting it.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, February 2, 2014 1:57 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
he was even credible as art howe and that was a role he just had no business playing, on paper
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
re his embodiment of characters -- he always seemed like a very perceptive person, that's part of why i like him so much
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
it was really kinda shocking last year to read that he was going to rehab for heroin. a guy in his 40s, who had supposedly been clean for 20 years? was really hoping he was gonna be okay.
― scott c-word (some dude), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
wow fuck this
― k3vin k., Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
he had the best line readings too. really deceptively low key but so idiosyncratic, kinda like jeff bridges
is his last movie really gonna be the hungry games?
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, February 2, 2014 2:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes otm
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
was at Sundance two weeks ago to promote a film there
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
it's a Le Carre adap
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1972571/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
one of my favorite Hoffman moments is in talented mr ripley where he's just bullying ripley by plunking on some piano keys.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
This is fucked up
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
showtime just picked up his tv show, not sure how much of it was filmed or if/when it would be shown. the next hunger games is in post-production but apparently the second half is still filming? this is from imdb so heavy grain of salt. he's also in some anton corbijn movie coming out this year and some movie john slattery directed apparently.
― balls, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
yeah, RIP. Didn't know about the substance abuse. A great loss.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
NYpost now sketching in the details, they aren't pretty
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Not even wrt ability but just the amount of stuff I've watched last 20 years that he's been a part of
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Sad news...RIP
― 330,003 Luftballons (WilliamC), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, February 2, 2014 2:06 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he was good in Catching Fire! his role was supposed to be more prominent in the next 2 movies, which afaik they haven't finished shooting, so i'm curious what's going to happen with that character now.
― scott c-word (some dude), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
Loved him in everything, but his Lester Bangs really got to me. Very sad right now.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
the Jimi Hendrix of american cinema. from now on. RIP
― nostormo, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
i think this was the first time i noticed him -- i went to see "scent of a woman" and the movie itself did not move me but i remember thinking who's that guy? http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/12/21/magazine/21hoffman_slide01.jpg
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
this is just unbearable
― mustread guy (schlump), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
I'm gutted. I cannot take it when people who've kicked and moved on and made it out suddenly fall like this. Fuck.
Trying to remember my first encounter w his acting. It wasn't happiness... I had seen him in one thing before that.
― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
the poor guyso beyond excellent that i can only have a selfish response to thisjust unbearable
― mustread guy (schlump), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
I cannot take it when people who've kicked and moved on and made it out suddenly fall like this. Fuck.same
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
i cannot take it when people suddenly fall like this
― nostormo, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I told you my friend's story LL. I wonder if something happened last year that precipitated psh back into using.
― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
Hell of a shame
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
so fucking sad
first thing I remember noticing him in was Happiness & Boogie Nights.
one of my favorite "movie meh PSH tops" roles was Gust in Charlie Wilson's War. I love it when he plays aggressive misanthropes
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
This is just awful. So young, such a great actor.
― toby, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
i would love to watch love liza, for its ebullience & grief, but it would be just too too sad
― mustread guy (schlump), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
Holy shit. Tbh, he seemed pretty on the ball, had a family, smart, etc. So I was surprised to hear the news last year or whenever that he was away for rehab. This is the worst possible outcome of that story.
He was an incredible actor. So good in Boogie Nights, as Lester Bangs, Capote (I still have no idea how they made such a big, doughy guy so small), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Charlie Wilson, The Master ... he was good in Moneyball. I assume he was great onstage.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
Here he is as a bad guy in The Getaway:
http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/1994_The_Getaway/tn640/fhd994TGW_Philip_Seymour_Hoffman_001.jpg