Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dead after suspected drug overdose | @ 46

Sensational actor.
Really got to love his work through the film Owning Mahowney, a film based on a true story of a Toronto portfolio manager struggling with a gambling addiction.
Terrible loss.
 
He was one actor that when he got inside a role that was his bent he absolutely convincingly portrayed a craft. He was an actor, god speed!
 
The idiot screwed his wife and children. I feel sorry for them.

Drug addicts should take better care of their dosing.
 
Oh, I think his wife and children will miss having a husband and father around the house.

Mind you, I think it's perfectly within his rights to kill himself.
 
NorthStar said:
He didn't screw no one but himself Gary.
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He left 3 children under 11 fatherless and his wife. They will have to live with that for the rest of their lives. Hoffman no longer cares, he is dead.


If he was not famous he would just be another dead smack head with a needle hanging out of his arm.
 
GaryProtein said:
The idiot screwed his wife and children. I feel sorry for them.

Drug addicts should take better care of their dosing.
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Guys-deep breath. Addiction is certainly a very tough battle. Whether he had personal demons or a need for a quick high , none of us will ever know but we certainly can take the empathetic high road and not b judgmental. Wheather u r addicted to fine wine, cheap booze, cars, audio or drugs we all know they can sometimes dominate u in a way that is often very hard to control. Personally I feel bad for Mr. Hoffman and his entire family. To me he was a great actor I will really miss his next role.
BTW this is an audio forum not a place to be truly angry over someone's loss or terrible misfortune.
IMHO,

Nick
 
veindoc said:
Guys-deep breath. Addiction is certainly a very tough battle. Whether he had personal demons or a need for a quick high , none of us will ever know but we certainly can take the empathetic high road and not b judgmental. Wheather u r addicted to fine wine, cheap booze, cars, audio or drugs we all know they can sometimes dominate u in a way that is often very hard to control. Personally I feel bad for Mr. Hoffman and his entire family. To me he was a great actor I will really miss his next role.
BTW this is an audio forum not a place to be truly angry over someone's loss or terrible misfortune.
IMHO,

Nick
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+100%
 
XV-1 said:
He left 3 children under 11 fatherless and his wife. They will have to live with that for the rest of their lives. Hoffman no longer cares, he is dead.


If he was not famous he would just be another dead smack head with a needle hanging out of his arm.
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I understand; it's one way to look at it. I see another.

It is truly sad one way or another anyway.
 
NorthStar said:
I understand; it's one way to look at it. I see another.

It is truly sad one way or another anyway.
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Agree, sad in every respect.

From reports Hoffman had a drug dens worth of smack in his apartment. To me sounds more like suicide.
 
veindoc said:
The idiot screwed his wife and children. I feel sorry for them.

Drug addicts should take better care of their dosing.




Guys-deep breath. Addiction is certainly a very tough battle. Whether he had personal demons or a need for a quick high , none of us will ever know but we certainly can take the empathetic high road and not b judgmental. Wheather u r addicted to fine wine, cheap booze, cars, audio or drugs we all know they can sometimes dominate u in a way that is often very hard to control. Personally I feel bad for Mr. Hoffman and his entire family. To me he was a great actor I will really miss his next role.
BTW this is an audio forum not a place to be truly angry over someone's loss or terrible misfortune.
IMHO,

Nick
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Good post!
 
I'm not angry at all. I was just stating that he made stupid choices.

No one gets hooked on their first trip. They do it a number of times before that happens, hence, when he was sober and should have known better, he made lousy decisions.

When you get high, you should have a "designated driver" who stays sober with you or your group AT HOME to deal with any mishaps. M-O-D-E-R-A-T-I-O-N is the key here.

By the way, I am not condemning recreational drug use. They should legalize it, control it and tax it like alcohol and tobacco. At least that way people will know what they are getting.
 
XV-1 said:
Agree, sad in every respect.

From reports Hoffman had a drug dens worth of smack in his apartment. To me sounds more like suicide.
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Yeah, fifty small bags of heroine, and two type of pills. But my own personal view is that he did not commit suicide, or he would have written a suicidal note.
For me it is more likely a fatal mix of heroin with the pills and tiredness; accidental overdose and indisposition to handle it at the time.

Phil had every valid reasons in his life to keep acting, and being good at what he loves to do and did well.
His children were very important to him.
And he was not the type of 'famous celebrity' living in that "stardom" bubble of Hollywood; he was a simple down-to-earth type of guy.

Something, the heroin mix, ...got the better of him. ...Uncalculated, but rather purely accidental; imprevisible to his own stoned state.
 
I wonder if his heroin was the 24K brand in New York that has been found to also contain fentanyl and has been linked to overdoses and 27 deaths.
 
That could well be possible Gary. ...Or/and even high purity heroin will kill you.

I bet there will be an investigation/analysis by lab scientists as to the potency (mix) of that heroin; and we might find more here.
Plus the autopsy should reveal what else was in his blood at the moment of his very unfortunate death.
 
veindoc said:
Guys-deep breath. Addiction is certainly a very tough battle. Whether he had personal demons or a need for a quick high , none of us will ever know but we certainly can take the empathetic high road and not b judgmental. Wheather u r addicted to fine wine, cheap booze, cars, audio or drugs we all know they can sometimes dominate u in a way that is often very hard to control. Personally I feel bad for Mr. Hoffman and his entire family. To me he was a great actor I will really miss his next role.
BTW this is an audio forum not a place to be truly angry over someone's loss or terrible misfortune.
IMHO,

Nick
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Thanks for a thoughtful post.
 
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