February 11th, 2014
Anthony Lane has a very good essay about him and, funnily enough, fixates on the PSH performance which most struck me, too.
One final note: When I said that Hoffman might be my favorite actor of my generation, I didn’t mean “best.” That’s a separate question and Hoffman probably ranks somewhere on any such list, too. But I really meant my personal favorite. Like most people, I have a little list of actors who give me enormous pleasure whenever they show up–I like to think of them as actors whose VORPs are just totally off the scale. For me, anyway.
Judith March 4, 2014 at 10:49 pm
This is late – don’t know if I should have put an off-topic on a later post, but there is a very nice video tribute to PSH here:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/03/04/philip_seymour_hoffman_video_tribute_beautiful_montage_from_caleb_slain.html