Page 1 of Philip Seymour Hoffman dead

Early reports are saying overdose. Bit of a shock. One of my favourite actors.







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Drugs are bad.....when will celebs learn.


RIP Julie & Maisie

There's a massive conflict of info going on at the moment. Yesterday his publicist had to re-iterate that he wasn't dead, and now TMZ are getting all classy and reporting that he was found dead with a needle in his arm (with a photo of a medical examiner's van outside a non-descript building)

Until I get someone actually confirming this on TV, and not just 'a close friend' telling us he's dead, I'm not buying it just yet

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Writer`s Release

On the BBC site now, cause not confirmed yet.

Quite a shock :(

Apparently he only had 7 more days of filming left on the Hunger Games sequels.

I don't quite know how to feel about this one. He was five years younger than me. A few weeks ago, one of my schoolmates was claimed by throat cancer. I'm saddened by the loss of a talented actor, but bloody annoyed what he's thrown away. He had so much and so much potential and now he's just a memory.

RIP, PSH, just a shame you couldn't have stuck around.

J Mark Oates

I feel the same, great actor, really was top drawer but self inflicted drug overdose?

:( I could say what i really think but the old saying about the dead springs to mind.

Yep, waste of a great actor.  "The Talented Mr Ripley" one of our favourite films(though he didn't play lead role).  Suicide is not the easiest of subjects is it !
Pete 

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mbilko says...
"I feel the same, great actor, really was top drawer but self inflicted drug overdose?

:( I could say what i really think but the old saying about the dead springs to mind."
I remember when Heath Ledger died, thinking, "silly, selfish junkie", my initial thoughts here were the same, or like the Jackass guy, and that Fast and Furious actor who died recently in a car crash. Silly people doing silly things, they know are dangerous, but think "hopefuly it won't happen to me", although maybe they did want it to happen to them.

However, something, musician/poet Saul Williams wrote on facebook got me thinking:

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What Billie Holiday, Bill Evans, Fat Navarro, Charlie Parker, Basquiat, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Chet Baker, Philip Seymour Hoffman and so many others had in common is that their sensitivity showed through their art.... Seeing the world the way they did is a condition that is not supported by the status quo or merely successful careers. Stop blaming the dreamer for wanting to dream. For all we know their careers and lives may have ended much sooner if they hadn't had found the crutches that eventually crippled them. The peace they felt in their highest moments is exactly what I wish them.We'll never know, maybe if it wasn't for drugs, they would have topped themselves sooner? Would The Beatles, Hendrix etc made more better, or worse albums?

Do ppl care about the guy in their town who did the same thing the other day?

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admars says...
"Do ppl care about the guy in their town who did the same thing the other day?"
This is the hypocrisy of modern society that I really don't like.  We venerate and almost celebrate celebrity addiction on the one hand but condemn those who partake in the same habits at the other end of the spectrum.

Until we decide what is truly acceptable and what isn't, then we'll never move forward as a society, we'll just keep muddling along commemorating the deaths of celebrities but condemning ordinary people who die in the same way.

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