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Philip Seymour Hoffman dead after apparent drug overdose: cops
New York Post ^ | February 2, 2014 | Larry Celona and Bruce Golding

Posted on 02/02/2014 10:43:03 AM PST by John W

Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent drug overdose inside a Greenwich Village home on Sunday, cops said.

Hoffman’s body was found by a friend at 11:30 a.m. Sunday morning in an apartment at 35 Bethune St., sources said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cinema; death; doa; film; hoffman; horse; movies; obituary; philipseymourhoffman; psh; smack
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To: Atlas Sneezed

There are liars, damn liars, and hypocrites.

He was all three.


141 posted on 02/02/2014 1:44:22 PM PST by edboock (The United States Constitution ©1787, All Rights Reserved)
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To: Mears

Yes - Doubt - what was I thinking?


142 posted on 02/02/2014 2:06:38 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: Nifster
One thing I never figured out about heroin is that almost everybody knows you become an addict almost from the get-go from it. So what reasoning goes thru someone's mind when the opportunity for the first injection comes? I mean someone who is somewhat rational? Do they think something like, "Hey, time to explore the wonderful world of being hooked on heroin?"

I just don't get it especially since you have to shove a needle in your arm. That would be a turnoff for me right there. Oh, and also the helpless junkie part as well.

143 posted on 02/02/2014 2:17:22 PM PST by PJ-Comix (ObamaCare unsubsidized PAID Enrollment Prediction: 66,666)
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To: MasterGunner01

“Breaking Bad” on the tube was SUPERIOR to almost everything in the movie theaters.


144 posted on 02/02/2014 2:18:45 PM PST by PJ-Comix (ObamaCare unsubsidized PAID Enrollment Prediction: 66,666)
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To: CaptainK

I just finished watching the second season of “Breaking Bad”.
Anyone that watches it will see just how damn destructive drugs are. A lot of money to be made, but if you get hooked on the strong stuff you might as well go ahead and start planning your funeral.


145 posted on 02/02/2014 2:21:10 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("I got a good Christian raisin', and 8th grade education, aint no need ya'll treatin' me this way")
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To: NFHale

Yes, of course!


146 posted on 02/02/2014 2:31:55 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Not all heroin users start by injecting. Frequently they get their start smoking it...and once you are doing street drugs there is no logic to your life


147 posted on 02/02/2014 4:10:42 PM PST by Nifster
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To: atc23

Addiction can really age a person. I have a cousin who has been an alcoholic all his life - he’s about 52ish and looks like he’s 80. Won’t stop drinking, though. He’s been through more rehabs than I can count but nothing stuck.


148 posted on 02/02/2014 4:53:14 PM PST by midnightcat
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To: GOPsterinMA; NFHale; Perdogg; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

Indeed, I thought he was older.

RIP


149 posted on 02/02/2014 5:27:33 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy; NFHale; Perdogg; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; KC_Lion

I remember my old man, Mr. “Case a Day+”...he checked out at 60, looked about 150.

I had a teacher in HS that had a saying: “Booze, butts and broads will kill you.” Add “dope” to that list...


150 posted on 02/02/2014 5:31:05 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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To: Eddie01

Why are praying for a mother with cancer and praying for a dead actor mutually exclusive? Was PSH not one of God’s children?


151 posted on 02/02/2014 5:44:54 PM PST by utahagen
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To: livius

I know! Why so much hatred?


152 posted on 02/02/2014 5:47:19 PM PST by utahagen
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Fame is an empty plate of food.


153 posted on 02/02/2014 6:13:05 PM PST by IncPen (When you start talking about what we 'should' have, you've made the case for the Second Amendment)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Yes. I’m sorry to hear of this. May he rest in peace.


154 posted on 02/02/2014 8:02:50 PM PST by floralamiss ("If anything, the new taboo is decency." --Jonah Goldberg)
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To: livius

I don’t get it, either.


155 posted on 02/02/2014 8:30:49 PM PST by floralamiss ("If anything, the new taboo is decency." --Jonah Goldberg)
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To: livius

He was a superb actor.

Not too many people beat heroin. It is an evil drug.

22 people died of heroin overdoses in Pittsburgh last month.

The dealers are now cutting it with fentanyl.

Maybe Hoffman was sold some of this stuff.


156 posted on 02/02/2014 8:33:55 PM PST by miserare (2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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To: silly.kerry.trix.are.for.kids

Perhaps, a time traveller is playing games using the public’s fascination with celebrity. :-) It is macabre. if they haven’t already, “Coast-to-Coast” will probably do a show on it.

I believe the reality is that certain people turn the wait for a close, inevitable event into a sick hobby, making and taking bets on when an ill, and/or elderly, celebrity will pass away.

Unless he often was seen driving like a maniac on city streets, imo, the initial Paul Walker hoax was a very strange and eerie coincidence.


157 posted on 02/02/2014 9:02:32 PM PST by floralamiss ("If anything, the new taboo is decency." --Jonah Goldberg)
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To: SeekAndFind
Well, they'll have to find someone to play PLUTARCH HEAVENSBEE in the last two episodes of the Hunger Games..

I thought the same, but I read today that most of his work was complete for both movies, and only "minor" rewrites are necessary.

Too bad, he was one guy I always liked to see in a movie, but apparently the H did him in after a long time being clean.
158 posted on 02/03/2014 8:00:17 AM PST by JacksonCalhoun
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To: Revolting cat!

#1 in a new trilogy of celebrity deaths.

Previous grouping was:
Arthur Rankin Jr. (Rudolph tv specials animator)
Mighty Hannibal (r&b performer)
Christopher Jones (actor, Wild In The Streets, soapy operas)


159 posted on 02/03/2014 9:08:46 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: All

Serve notice that all heroin dealers will be flogged, executed or exiled. Dittos for other hard drug pushers/ Enact these laws state by state

Flesh is weak...... Remove the temptation


160 posted on 02/03/2014 10:54:36 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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