i cant imagine anyone not liking, or loving him
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, February 3, 2014 2:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i can't either. i have the same kind of awful shocked sorrow about this that i had when phil hartman died.
― estela, Monday, 3 February 2014 04:24 (ten years ago) link
He got a lot of acclaim for indie movies liked by a niche audience, like Happiness, or an outright popular disaster like Synecdoche. Capote grossed about $29 M in the US. I imagine the PTA movies have more of a cult following on home media than their grosses would indicate; I suspect Joe /Jane Average would name those or Hunger Games, or the MI movie if pressed.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2014 04:25 (ten years ago) link
Heroin can get fucked
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, 3 February 2014 04:29 (ten years ago) link
I didn't love the guy all the time but his performances in Ripley + Synecdoche are all time imo
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 3 February 2014 04:32 (ten years ago) link
his moneyball broodin bit, and his character in charlie wilson's war are both great. his lester bangs was the only worthwhile part of almost famous.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 3 February 2014 04:55 (ten years ago) link
Genuinely feel robbed of future roles. Fuck heroin...
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 3 February 2014 05:03 (ten years ago) link
hope they find his dealer. or that he fell off a cliff somewhere.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 3 February 2014 05:05 (ten years ago) link
it's been such a shitty several months for awesome actors dying too young. also an acquaintance of mine had a personal connection to both gandolfini and hoffman and is really doubly slammed by this one.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 3 February 2014 05:10 (ten years ago) link
Was looking on Netflix to see which of his movies are streaming. I don't think I ever heard about A Late Quartet.
― tbd (Eazy), Monday, 3 February 2014 05:24 (ten years ago) link
I suspect Joe /Jane Average would name those or /Hunger Games/, or the MI movie if pressed.
Right. Cover of the daily mail this am http://t.co/QZ2vfGhRmi
― caek, Monday, 3 February 2014 06:12 (ten years ago) link
WTF initial headline in the Australian Daily Telegraph (yes, Murdoch, obv.), toned down by now:http://mumbrella.com.au/paying-respect-dead-203832
― StanM, Monday, 3 February 2014 06:37 (ten years ago) link
wow fuck them
― balls, Monday, 3 February 2014 06:52 (ten years ago) link
The Drummer From Junkie Actor Dad
(I'm sorry)
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 February 2014 07:33 (ten years ago) link
Too soon? http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/02/02/charlie-sheen-found-alive-in-his-new-york-apartment-aged-48/
― StanM, Monday, 3 February 2014 08:07 (ten years ago) link
so fucked
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 3 February 2014 08:40 (ten years ago) link
His daughter Tallulah is exactly the same age as my daughter Tallulah (to the month anyway).
― Michael Jones, Monday, 3 February 2014 09:32 (ten years ago) link
A poster on another forum pointed out that Hoffman's sparing partner in this scene, Christopher Even Welch, recently died. One of Welch's other prominent film roles was the Pastor in this scene in Synecdoche, New York.
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 February 2014 10:28 (ten years ago) link
This is horrible. Some smart and moving tributes though.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Monday, 3 February 2014 10:31 (ten years ago) link
I never considered him famous in the sense that people would swarm and have their picture taken with him. I always figured he was famous in the sense that you'd see him at a local restaurant and recognize him, and maybe someone might come over for an autograph or something. I guess I'd call that New York famous vs. LA famous.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 February 2014 12:56 (ten years ago) link
i saw him on broadway doing "true west" with john c. reilly. it's a two-man show and the two would switch roles every night. i'll always regret not seeing the show twice so that i could see hoffman do both roles. john c. reilly was good but not even in the same league as hoffmann, who dug himself so deeply into this gravel-voiced, obtuse drifter character that i literally couldn't imagine the roles reversed, no matter how i tried.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 February 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
ha and now googling around for images from this show returns only shots of PSH as the preppy writer. i guess the PR stills were taken on one particular day and they didn't come back for the reversed version.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 February 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link
oh man, you reminded me that i saw that show too. must've been almost 15 years ago now
― Nhex, Monday, 3 February 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, February 3, 2014 7:58 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
god i wish i could have seen that.
and man, the skill to do that—just to remember all the lines!—is absolutely unfathomable
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 3 February 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
(memory lane)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq4qH76O_5I
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 February 2014 15:11 (ten years ago) link
Ha, just saw on wiki the Quaid Bros did their version too.
― pplains, Monday, 3 February 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
what a loss, i had no idea he was that young. 46! could've sworn the guy was at least in 50s. just wanted to share my love for his roles in "Doubt" and "The Savages", i don't think they've been mentioned in this thread yet but he was astonishing in both of those movies. i'll totally miss his acting. so sad.
― marcos, Monday, 3 February 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
Richard Brody.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
50 bags of heroin in his apartment, CNN's saying.
― tbd (Eazy), Monday, 3 February 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
oh my goddoes anyone know what sort of life event could have precipitated a purchase of that magnitude?
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Monday, 3 February 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
good grief
― charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Monday, 3 February 2014 17:11 (ten years ago) link
apologies for my ingnorance on this topic, how much is a bag of heroin? does 1 bag = 1 dose?
― Spaghetti Sauce Shampoo (Moodles), Monday, 3 February 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
Had his partner kicked him out of their house recently? He was staying in a nearby apartment.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 3 February 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
I think they'd split in recent months, yes.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 3 February 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
:(it's nosy of me to wonder but i wonder why
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Monday, 3 February 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
i really want to stop letting this bum me out so bad too but it just keeps lurking there around the corners of my mind. i feel really sad for him and all of the people who loved him.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Monday, 3 February 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
"I have no inside information whatsoever but allow me to confidently explain how Hoffman's life could have been saved." (paraphrasing)
http://ideas.time.com/2014/02/02/how-philip-seymour-hoffman-could-have-been-saved/
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Monday, 3 February 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
every word of this 2nded
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Monday, 3 February 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
xp yea that was totally wrongheaded to frame that story around hoffman. david sheff has researched and written extensively about addiction but it's kind of lame to use this very recent death of someone who has no personal connection to the author as the hook for the story.
― marcos, Monday, 3 February 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
it depends on how big a habit you have going but most people start out at a bag a day. if you are up to needing 2 bags to get high you are going to hurt pretty bad when you stop. if you have 50 bags in your apartment -- I never knew any users who would have that kind of supply on hand, that's way out of my league. but most users don't have enough cash to buy as much as they'd like to have handy.
― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 3 February 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
Nathaniel at The FilmExp:
The Atlantic has a piece on PSH's talent that fascinated me. It's very well written but its thesis is EXACTLY the opposite about how I always felt about him as an actor, claiming that his greatest gift was understatement. I think he almost never understated anything... which is why he thrills people so much in big moments but also why I did not like his performance in Doubt at all (way too bold when that role needs exceptional restraint to cloud the issues, hence the title) and why my three favorite performances of his I consider very atypical because they have these lovely quiet non red-faced & screaming layers and subtle details. But it's a really good read.
http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2014/2/2/links.html
I'd seen Doubt on B'way, and once they cast PSH as the priest in the film, I thought the title shd've been changed to Guilty.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
Very moving piece by Lester Bangs' friend and colleague Jaan Uhelszki:
http://www.spin.com/articles/philip-seymour-hoffman-lester-bangs-almost-famous/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 3 February 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
The other problem with The Atlantic: Magnolia filled with "great performances."
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 February 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnON-J8HHaE
^^ first movie i saw him in and loved the shit out of the character
when i get hungry i still say "food" the way he says "food" in this stupid movie even though nobody knows wtf i'm doing
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 3 February 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
(xpost) I think PSH is great. It's his thread, but I'd also add John C. Reilly, Melinda Dillon, the kid, Tom Cruise (I think so, anyway), Henry Gibson, maybe a couple more. Julianne Moore...acquired taste. Hoffman or Reilly head the list.
― clemenza, Monday, 3 February 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
I just added a post about that character last week in imdb trivia
― pplains, Monday, 3 February 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Magnolia is, like all PTA films til the last two, pretentious bilge with insufficient compensating perks, but I'll overlook praise for it as long as other ppl are claiming that Before the Devil Knows You're Dead has something to offer.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
he's so good in that
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 3 February 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
No one is. The extras are terrible in it.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
lol
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 3 February 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, February 3, 2014 6:46 PM (26 minutes ago)
thanks for this -- an incredible read. gave me chills tbh.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 3 February 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link