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I'm not the type to get upset when Hollywood folks pass. However, Hoffman was/is one of my favorite actors. I will greatly miss his work.

Drugs are bad, kids. Don't do them.

Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his apartment in New York City on Sunday.

Hoffman died of an apparent drug overdose, a New York city police source said.

The source said Hoffman was found after a 911 emergency call from a friend of his. The New York City Police Department confirmed to the LA Times that the actor was discovered with a hypodermic needle in arm.

Hoffman spoke in the past of struggling with drugs, including a 2006 interview in which he told CBS he had abused "anything I could get my hands on. I liked it all."

The actor had completed a detox program for substance abuse, including snorting heroin, in May, according to Variety.

Born in upstate New York, Hoffman won an Academy Award for the 2005 biographical film "Capote," in which he played writer Truman Capote. He also received three Academy Award nominations as best supporting actor, for "The Master" in 2013, "Doubt" in 2009 and "Charlie Wilson's War" in 2008.

Hoffman had burst onto the film scene after more than a dozen earlier roles, including 1997's "Boogie Nights," in which he played a lovelorn gay man in the movie about the porn industry.

While he also appeared in blockbusters such as "Twister" and "The Hunger Games" series, Hoffman was more associated with the independent film world for his intense portrayals of often disturbing and complex characters in such films as "Happiness," in which he played an obscene phone caller, and "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead."

More than a hundred people had gathered outside the address where the actor was found on Sunday afternoon, in a brick apartment building on Bethune Street, the New York Times reported.
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Wow, really good actor. I liked everything he did. So many actors into drugs.
 
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i have seen too many people just barely outside my immediate circle lose it to drugs, and it is a goddamn wasteful shame every time. hoffman had both practiced craft and raw talent, and huge potential left to fulfil, and i am saddened that no one, including himself, was there for him when he needed it. god rest.
 
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He was a very good actor but he admitted to having drug problems from an early age and that should tell a story to those who might follow after him...but it never seems to stick. Hard drugs esp. those you use a syringe for can't be good and he obviously knew the risks associated with it since the papers said he was found with a syringe in his arm. I can't fathom why people with that much talent will turn to do drugs in the first place as it always seems to turn to tragedy.
 
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Because the world is a pretty shitty place. The stress that actors and people in the spotlight are under has to be even worse....
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I think it's more that uber-creative types are by nature more prone to deviance (in the technical sense of the word). They're more likely to think, feel, and do things that ordinary folk aren't.

Add to that the idea that they're surrounded by yes men, and know they "should" feel on top of the world, but feel no real sense of purpose, accountability, etc, and you have a recipe for disaster.
 
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