RIP Phillip Seymor Hoffman

[jack]

Which was the one he did with DeNiro, where he plays a drag queen and deniro is his homophobic neighbor?

Another beauty.

 

[CaptainWacky]

 

[Mirah]

His last ever portrait, done using "Tintypes" antique method at Sundance.

He looks a fuckin mess.

On the radio today I heard that he knew he was dying/going to die whatever. And when people asked who he was when he was walking around sundance he said, "I am a heroin addict"

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Which was the one he did with DeNiro, where he plays a drag queen and deniro is his homophobic neighbor?

Another beauty.

"Flawless". Great little indie flick.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Did no one try to help him in these final weeks when it was really obvious he was on heroin?

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I wonder about that as well -- I haven't read many accounts of his final days.

I doubt that no one reached out, but you have to wonder who would have been able to make him stop.

 

[jack]

The Games will proceed. The production company behind The Hunger Games movie franchise has reportedly found a solution for the remaining scenes left incomplete by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. According to Page Six, Lionsgate plans to digitally-recreate Hoffman -- who played head gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee in the series -- for one major scene in Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2.

The studio will use CGI technology to edit the film rather than rewriting the script, or hiring a new actor to take Hoffman's place, Page Six reported Thursday, Feb. 6. The beloved actor was set to reprise his role as Heavensbee in Parts 1 and 2 of Mockingjay. While Hoffman had already completed most of his scenes for Part 1, he still had seven days left to shoot on Part 2.

"These days the technology of using someone's likeness is a whole lot easier to do," veteran special effects supervisor Rob Legato speculated Monday, Feb. 3 to The Hollywood Reporter. "I won't say you could generate a Philip Seymour Hoffman with all the acting ability, but you could certainly replicate him for a shot or two."

Elizabeth Banks, who plays Effie Trinket in the series, discussed the loss of her Hunger Games costar on Wednesday's Today show: "I really am in shock," she said. "He is an absolutely amazing actor, respected by everyone and part of our family at The Hunger Games."


The Oscar-winning actor first appeared in 2013's Catching Fire. Hoffman, who was found dead at 46 in his NYC apartment on Sunday, Feb. 2 from an apparent heroin overdose, will be honored in a private funeral service. He leaves behind his estranged girlfriend Mimi O'Donnell and three children, Cooper, 10, Tallulah, 7, and Willa, 5.

 

[curiousa2z]

What a waste. I think my favourite role of his was in "Almost Famous", but there were so many, it truly is a hard call. I feel badly for his 3 kids. Not how you want to hear your dad died.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

One of the suspects is already cashing in with the press, even while being held in prison:

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Accused Heroin Dealer: ‘I Could Have Saved Him’

By Todd Cunningham on February 9, 2014 @ 4:35 pm

Robert Vineberg says in a prison interview that he didn’t provide the drugs that killed the actor and that if he were there “it wouldn’t have happened”

The man accused of providing the heroin that caused the drug overdose of Philip Seymour Hoffman last Sunday said that he didn’t kill the actor – and that he could have saved him.

“He was my friend,” Robert Vineberg told the N.Y. Post in an exclusive interview from the Rikers Island jailhouse published on Sunday. He’s been charged with felony drug possession and was one of three suspected dealers charged in connection with Hoffman’s death.

“I could have saved him. If I knew he was in town, I would have said, ‘Hey, let’s make an AA meeting.’ If I was with him, it wouldn’t have happened. Not under my guard.”

Vineberg, a jazz musician, denied that he sold the more than 70 bags of heroin found in Hoffman’s apartment, but declined to say whether he had ever sold the actor drugs.

“When we got together, we talked about books. And art. He was a normal guy. You wouldn’t know he was an Oscar winner.

“He loved his kids. I offer my condolences to his family,” Vineberg said.

He claims that he last saw Hoffman in October, at his apartment where police last week seized more than 300 bags of heroin after police acted on a tip that the actor had been witnessed buying drugs there. After that, Vineberg said, Hoffman went on a rehab stint and then on to shoot the upcoming “Hunger Games” movie. Their final contact came in December, Vineberg said.

“He left me a voicemail in December saying ‘I’m clean,’” Vineberg said.

“All of the evidence adduced to date has indicated that Robert did not provide to Mr. Hoffman the narcotics that caused his unfortunate death,” Vineberg’s lawyer, Ed Kratt, said Saturday. “The evidence also shows that Robert and Mr. Hoffman were true friends who had bonded over and struggled with the dangerous use of narcotic drugs,” the attorney said.

Vineberg, who reportedly has played sax and written horn arrangements for Madonna, Wyclef Jean and the late pop singer Amy Winehouse, repeatedly denied he was responsible for Hoffman’s death.

“Don’t you understand? I’m a scapegoat,” he said.