‘Arts’ Archives
Philip Seymour Hoffman: July 23, 1967- February 2, 2014
One of Hollywood”'s most gifted actors and reaching today”'s rare status of an actor”'s actor, Mr. Philip Seymour Hoffman, died of an overdose of heroin in his Manhattan apartment on Sunday, February 2,2014, the same day as Super Bowl XLVIII. He was 46. A most unfortunate fate for an actor with immense talent loved by studios, critics and audiences alike. Rather than reiterate the sad saga of the man”'s life falling on his own in the current heroin epidemic in America, I will write some of the directors he worked under and the films he was in: (more…)
Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)Â ****1/2 Focus Features. Drama Cast: Matthew McConaughey (Ron Woodroof), Jared Leto (Rayon), Jennifer Garner (Dr. Eve Saks), Dallas Roberts (David Wayne), Steve Zahn (Tucker), Griffin Dunne (Dr. Vass). Running time: 117 minutes. Director: Jean-Marc Vallee. Back in the early 1980s when the AIDS disease “first” struck, it is a death sentence for almost everyone contracting AIDS. Matthew Mc Conaughey”'s Ron Woodroof is a Texas electrician/rodeo cowboy living a risky lifestyle of illicit sex, drugs and partying but in 1985 after what seems to be a brief illness he”'s told by his doctors he”'s HIV-positive at age 35. At first Woodroof rejects the news casting it as a disease of homosexuals. Woodroof is rabidly homophobic and makes it known to all concerned. He continues, for a while, to drink, snort cocaine, and have sex with women he picks up at the bars. (more…)
