Tag: Philip Seymour Hoffman

February 8, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Drug related death — or when death calls too early, not a cheery subject, but one worth a great deal of thought

The reason I am so non-judgmental of Hoffman or Bieber and so condemnatory of the pop cultural tinsel that adorns the reporting around them is that I am a drug addict in recovery, so like any drug addict I know exactly how Hoffman felt when he “went back out”. In…

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February 2, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor, Dies at 46 – NYTimes.com – very, very, sad

“He’s a local. He’s a fixture in this neighborhood,” said Christian McCulloch, 39, who said that he lives nearby. “You see him with his kids in the coffee shops, he is so sweet. It’s desperately sad.” At a short distance from the crowd, two men who identified themselves as friends…

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