Hoffman's NYC funeral attracts Hollywood stars

CNSNews ^ | 2/7/2014 | KAREN MATTHEWS

[rktman]

Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehey, Amy Adams and Ellen Burstyn were among the stars who paid their respects Friday at a private funeral for Philip Seymour Hoffman that combined sadness and humor to honor an actor widely considered among the best of his generation.

[Bobalu]

(1997) Boogie Nights - Scotty J.

Thanks :-)

[Borges]

Do you think concert pianists are the same... do what others have written?

[Borges]

Brian Dennehy? He is a Marine.

[SuziQ]

First movie I ever saw Hoffman in was “Twister”, 1996, though I didn’t see it until it was shown on TV a couple of years later. That movie scared the crap out of our youngest, who was about 8 when he saw it the first time. He’s been fascinated by tornadoes ever since.

[Gaffer]

Marine, shmarine...I guess you missed where he claimed to be a Viet Nam combat veteran when it was clearly not the case, didn’t you. He actually publically apologized for that oversight during an interview..

[MinuteGal]

Little doubt he eventually would have been nastily offed in some sleazy, dim-lit hotel room by a dealer, another junkie or a homo. At least, this way he did it his way.

Leni

[kcvl]

Maybe Mayor Bloomberg should have spent his money on trying to control heroin dealers in his city instead of guns in the rest of the country.

[greene66]

Well, that does sum it up.

American culture has devolved to a point that celebrates evil and depravity, while attacking and disparaging virture and deceny. In so many ways, the country has become the opposite of all it once reprented and all it once stood for.

[Bobalu]

I missed that film in the list also..thanks:-)

(1996) Twister - Dustin Davis

[Drew68]

Those of us who watch movies know that he was an exceptional talent.

Yes, he was.

[Revolting cat!]

Did I say that all actors are the same? It takes a lot less to be anb actor than to be a concert pianist. Elvis Presley was an "actor".

All I hear here is that this actor was "great", "awesome", "unbelievable", "incredible", "amazing", the same things I hear on music threads from people who claim post-graduate degrees in music. What does it mean, valley girl? It means nothing to me! The same can be said and has been said about this product.

[momtothree]

“It’s the diabetics who have to buy them and have a prescription”.

Are you sure? I purchased them at the pharmacy without a prescription. It was a small needle (pediatric) for insulin injections for my dog.

[Borges]

I did not know that actually. At least he apologized.

[Borges]

He was not a run of the mill actor. His mastery is available to anyone who wants to see his best films. And he was a master.

[Gaffer]

He bragged about it for years and years. He apologized after he got caught up in the lie.

[Gaffer]

Pretty much the same as Senator Tom Harkin who for years went about claiming he was a Vietnam Combat pilot who flew over a hundred missions (or some such nonsense).

He did serve as a pilot, but it was flying cargo planes not in a combat area, IIRC.

[NoExpectations]

"This loser completely crapped on his “partner” and kids. I don’t care how good an actor he was."

Thank you. Money, status & awards have replaced common decency as a benchmark for admiration. The guy was a complete dirtbag in my book based on his treatment of his family.

[Sans-Culotte]

I don’t think that honoring a comrade who died prematurely is about condoning the manner of his death. Lots of jazz musicians died the same way. It doesn’t lessen the value of their contributions to music. Karen Carpenter’s death from anorexia was also self inflicted, but nonetheless tragic.

[Gabrial]

The hollywood crowd celebrates drug use and deify people that kill themselves with drugs.

This is how sick and twisted this segment of our culture has become.

[dfwgator]

At least he died doing what he loved......heroin.