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Yes, i heard that several hours ago on CNN. He certainly had his demons. But few of us here will ever leave as much as he has in his many performances on film. One more imperfect human being like the rest of us.
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Pretty dismissive.
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Feb 3, 2014 - 5:55 PM
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Regie
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I'm sad to see these judgments being made right at this time. I'm not religious but I invoke a religious expression, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone".
The obituary I read this morning made two salient points: Philip had trouble "having fun" and he "wasn't into levity". I don't know if this can be believed but, if true, it is very revealing about the nature of Philip Seymour Hoffman. That he wasn't confident with people or in being himself. Or that he took life way too seriously because he'd been taught that it should be so.
The obituary also reports he was in Europe with Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton (her husband) when Philip's partner was giving birth to the third child. It takes TWO people to make relationship decisions and if his partner decided it was OK to have 3 children without marriage and with a busy actor who couldn't be there then this was HER choice; the same as it was to be in a relationship with an unstable, albeit exciting, personality. He has been described as having a 'dangerous' side. Did this mean addiction or something more sinister? We'll never know and it really isn't our business.
But, guess what? I'll bet she thought the price she paid was one worth paying because of who he was.
And also, let's not forget that upbringing is a fundamental part of who we become. His father was an executive at Xerox and his mother a lawyer - that tells you that the parents were high-flying corporate types. Were these expectations heaped upon Philip? Was he encouraged always to strive, strive, strive and that childhood wasn't important? I know people like this myself - their children were born and bred to achieve but something fundamental is missing.
I guess Philip, like the rest of us, coped the best way he could. He was very dear to me anyway.
And his children can look back over their lives and be proud of their talented father.
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50 POUNDS OF HEROIN, WOW, , we all try to speculate why people do the things they do, some may say he was depress or he was acting suicidal, but people are weak when facing these demons like alcohol, drugs , tobacco. I am happy to say I have basically stayed away from those 3 troublemaking substances but I have been around people who have been in bad shape with those three.You might ask yourself if it was heroin what were they thinking. From what I have experience sometimes answers are not as complicated as one likes to think they are. It can be simple, I have been doing it a long time and I am still alive.They don't think something is going to happen to them, they in a way think they can be invincible[DENNIS HOPPER, TITO PUENTE]. the more they do it and survive the more sure it will be okay,I knew a guy[a distant friend for this reason] who took cocaine for years like people drink soda, morning , noon and night. He never believed it would destroy him. Anything you do that can be dangerous and getting away with it for so long, you believe nothing will happened to you. Sadly in this case, he never knew what hit him at least not on earth.Yes in his own way , he might have died a semi happy man.
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In 1997, Hoffman received his first poster credit in his ninth-billed role in BOOGIE NIGHTS.
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