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.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Agree, he nailed Capote.
His portrayal was eerily close to the rear thing.

[Toespi]

The who’s who of dysfunction, gathers again at a red carpet memorial to honor and glamorize a fallen comrade.

[Bobalu]

2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - Plutarch Heavensbee

2014 A Most Wanted Man - Günther Bachmann

2014 God's Pocket - Mickey Scarpato

2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Plutarch Heavensbee

2012 Back Beyond (Video short) - Lancaster Dodd

2012 A Late Quartet - Robert Gelbart

2012 The Master - Lancaster Dodd

2011 Moneyball - Art Howe

2011 The Ides of March - Paul Zara

2011 A Child's Garden of Poetry (TV Movie) (voice)

2010 Jack Goes Boating - Jack

2009 Arthur (TV Series) - Will Toffman

2009 The Invention of Lying - Jim the Bartender

2009 Pirate Radio - The Count

2009 Mary and Max - Max Jerry Horovitz (voice)

2008 I Doubt - Father Brendan Flynn

2008 Synecdoche, New York - Caden Cotard

2007 Charlie Wilson's War - Gust Avrakotos

2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Andy

2007 The Savages - Jon Savage

2006 Mission: Impossible III - Owen Davian

2005 Capote - Truman Capote

2005 Empire Falls (TV Movie) - Charlie Mayne

2005 Strangers with Candy - Henry

2004 Along Came Polly - Sandy Lyle

2003 Cold Mountain - Reverend Veasey

2003 Mattress Man Commercial (Video short) - Dean Trumbell

2003 Owning Mahowny - Dan Mahowny

2002 25th Hour - Jacob Elinsky

2002 Red Dragon - Freddy Lounds

2002 Punch-Drunk Love - Dean Trumbell

2002 Love Liza - Wilson Joel

2000 Almost Famous - Lester Bangs

2000 State and Main - Joseph Turner White

1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley - Freddie Miles

1999 Magnolia - Phil Parma

1999 Flawless - Rusty

1998 Patch Adams - Mitch

1998 Happiness - Allen

1998 The Big Lebowski - Brandt

1998 Next Stop Wonderland - Sean

1998 Montana - Duncan

[OneVike]

Are supposed to celebrate a dead drug addict as if he were an upstanding moral example of American exceptionalism?

I am sure that if I looked, it would not be too difficult to find a funeral that was held on Friday for a Godly individual who lived a life that was truly worthy of celebrating as we mourn their passing.

So why do we continue to celebrate the worst of our society instead of the best?

I guess no one cars if John Joe Christian died of natural causes after contributing his life to Christ, family and country because he did so in the obscurity of his little circle of friends and family.

And the spiral down into the depths of depravity continue for this once great country God had shed His grace upon.

[puppypusher]

These Junkies should be required by state law to have a permit to possess a syring.Oh I forgot they are a prescription item anyway.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Whoever made that list left off Boogie Nights.

[luvbach1]

I didn’t know him until I remembered seeing him as Truman Capote. And I don’t see many new movies. Too many good old ones.

[luvbach1]

None better than Hoffman as Ratso in Midnight Cowboy.

[a fool in paradise]

Needles are free for junkies. It’s the diabetics who have to buy them and have a prescription.

[bobrlbob]

Many would have been better then a junkie.

[strider44]

you forgot Boogie Nights. One of his best roles as Scotty J.

[Borges]

Anyone who was the best at what they did among their generation would garner equal attention.

[bgill]

widely considered among the best of his generation

Such lows that we've sunk to to honor druggies. I had to do a search to figure out who he was. He was creepy, very creepy, imo.

[bgill]

Ah, he leaned that way, huh. No wonder he gave off sick vibes.

[Revolting cat!]

We celebrate an actor, a person who reads texts others wrote and pretends to be others, a junkie who once played a famous fag! I get it now!

[rktman]

Uh, isn’t/wasn’t he a little “light” to play the “lyin’ king”?

[csvset]

The pics of the actors that showed up, what a scruffy looking bunch they were.

[ohiobushman]

“Well Baraq and Moosechelle weren’t at Sochi, so why didn’t they attend?” Barag was too stoned to attend!!

[ohiobushman]

Barag=Baraq

[SuziQ]

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

He never bothered to marry the mother of his children. I hope, at least, he left enough money in a will for her to raise them!