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Old 02-03-2014, 05:45 PM  
kane
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It sucks but I am less sensitive than I used to be for people with drug addictions who off themselves.

He was a good actor but it always urked me a bit that him and others feel they have to use their middle names to be referred to.... what was wrong with just Philip Hoffman?

RIP druggy
Actually a lot of the time with the middle name thing it is about the SAG union. They can only have one person with a specific name in the union. If there was already a Phillip Hoffman they may have made him use his middle name. Then, legally, any film has to bill him as Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

I don't know if that is the case with him, but I know with some actors it is. It is why Michael J. Fox uses the J.
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