Remembering the late, impossibly great Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I never saw a Philip Seymour Hoffman performance I didn’t love.
That is a rare thing to say about an actor, even a great one, because very few performers go through their careers without making a misstep or two, without taking on a role unworthy of their talent or being handed awful material and finding themselves unable to rise above it. Hoffman wasn’…
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