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"  Photo: AFP Philip Seymour Hoffman died today. He was 46. Details surrounding his death are still developing, but here is what matters: He will be remembered for one of the greatest individual collections of acting work in the last two decades. Hoffman became Truman Capote and won an Oscar for it. He embraced impossible roles, like a priest in Doubt who was simultaneously guilty and innocent in a world that provides no answers for terrible things, like this one. In Almost Famous, he let you know how to live as an honest-to-goodness adult by faking it all. As Lester Bangs, he extolled this: &amp;quot;My advice to you: I know you think those guys are your friends. You wanna be a true friend to them? Be honest, and unmerciful.&amp;quot; He made a career out of that advice. There is not a dishonest role or dud in his catalogue. Comb through his IMDb. You will not find one. In interviews, he talked of being an invested and contemplative father. He spoke to Esquire&amp;#039;s Scott Raab about it in 2012: &amp;quot;The thing I realized when I became a father is why parents stay and why they take off. The love you feel and the responsibilities you feel, I can see why some people go. They think, I&amp;#039;m never going to make this. Because it puts all of the heartbreaks you&amp;#039;ve had in your life in perspective. You&amp;#039;re like, Oh, I thought that was a broken heart. That&amp;#039;s been my experience. Now I&amp;#039;m sure there are some people whose relationships with kids are different. My kids are just, uh, they&amp;#039;re good. They&amp;#039;re just good kids, man.&amp;quot; Hoffman played a necessary bridge to reality in The Big Lebowski as Brandt. He maneuvered through an impossible dreamscape in Synecdoche, New York, Roger Ebert&amp;#039;s best film of the last decade. The only thing those two roles had in common is that neither got the critical acclaim they deserved until we saw them for a second or third time. We now have a chance to do that all again. It&amp;#039;s a shame he won&amp;#039;t be there to see it. Via  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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