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Downer.

And the beat goes on.

"Every junkie is like a setting sun."

sbh says

He was incredibly talented, had a broad range.

If you consider playing the same ginger eczema riddled, pasty faced evil/smart recluse character, who doesn't say much, but when he does..., type, then I guess so.

To me he never did any role more diverse than his Dustin Davis role in Twister. After that, he was the same Freddy Lounds character he played in that Hannibal movie Red Dragon.

I thought the British actor Toby Jones did a much better job doing Capote in the movie "Infamous".

Still, Hoffman was always a welcome presence on the screen, especially in his more offbeat roles.

He was a great "despicable omniscient villain" in one of the Mission Impossibles.

He shunta took so many drug at once.

sbh says

seeins how it wasn't cowboys and Indians and dope smoking rednecks

Actually my kind of movie these days are Chinese Dynasty Period pieces, and well made South Korean Movies. Followed by French Comedies, and Nordic non Slasher Thriller flicks.

American blockbusters lay at the bottom of the Urinal cakes, and just a scosh above Neo American Indy films, that every plot works into either Global Warming, or Old People are evil and rich and the cause of all our problems, or those plots merge to be the one and the same.

what maks ya say he wasnt doin dope when the crime scene says otherwise?
dopers tend to dig their graves early...why wont people see this?

elliemae says

they're saying it's an "apparent overdose." You know that "they" are never wrong.

When addicts are found with the needles still in their arm, it means they probably died of near instant anaphylactic allergic shock (from impurities used to cut the drug) rather than overdose.

Overdose, per se, would have taken longer and would have allowed the individual to remove the needle and nod for a while before dying.

If he did use the half fentanyl/half heroin stuff they mention, fentanyl is known to cause a condition caused "wooden chest", paralyzing respiration, but he still would have lived long enough to remove the needle etc.

CaptainShuddup says

American blockbusters lay at the bottom of the Urinal cakes

Another thing we agree on.

If there's one thing I'm sick and F'ing tired of right now, it's all the superhero shit. Spiderman, Superman, Batman reboots, Thor, Avengers, Captain America, Transformers...... after the 2nd or 3rd movie of this type I just can't understand why people keep going to see them.

Someone should just gin up a 24-hour movie with all the superheroes and mutants lumped together. An orgy of explosions and nearly-dead oops revived, and the people who like this can just bring a cot into the theater and take a nap now and then, if they miss something they can catch it on the next 24-hour cycle.

KennethCrass says

what maks ya say he wasnt doin dope when the crime scene says otherwise?

dopers tend to dig their graves early...why wont people see this?

The preliminary reports said that he died of an apparent drug overdose. That's what my comment was about. Since I wasn't at the scene of his death, I really don't know what was there or wasn't there.