Philip Seymour Hoffman

Author : Peter Shelley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476662436
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philip Seymour Hoffman written by Peter Shelley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, film producer, and film and stage director, best known for his memorable supporting roles in independent films. Considered one of the best actors of his generation, he died of a drug overdose at age 46 after years of sobriety. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his titular role in Capote (2005), and Best Supporting nominations for Doubt (2008) and The Master (2012). This biography covers his life and career and provides an appendix listing his film, television and stage appearances.

Author : Editors of Editors of Plexus
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780859655316
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philip Seymour Hoffman written by Editors of Editors of Plexus and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true chameleon of the stage and screen, Philip Seymour Hoffman's performances bristled with poetic resonance. His lack of vanity and gift for empathy allowed him to go to places most actors wouldn't dare, and his scene-stealing turns in everything from low-budget indie films to mainstream Hollywood blockbusters made his name. Having struggled with drug abuse in his early twenties, Hoffman remained sober for more than two decades, establishing himself first as an indispensable character actor -- the closeted porn-set worker in Boogie Nights, the grizzled rock critic in Almost Famous -- and ultimately as an Oscar-winning leading man who fiercely sought out the humanity in every role he played. His acclaimed performances as tortured writer Truman Capote in Capote, and insidious cult leader Lancaster Dodd in The Master, rank among modern cinema's finest. But giving as much to his craft as he did came at a price. Hoffman died, alone with a needle in his arm, on February 2, 2014. He was 46 years old. This richly illustrated retrospective celebrates Philip Seymour Hoffman's tragically curtailed life and fearless body of work, paying tribute to a man who knew the cost of greatness.

Author : Duncan Macmillan
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822235641
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Brilliant Thing written by Duncan Macmillan and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own. A play about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love.

Author : Duff McKagan
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 030682387X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Man written by Duff McKagan and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the collective wisdom gained from fatherhood, business school, and some of the greatest rock bands of all time

Author : Emily Ziff Griffin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1507200064
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light Years written by Emily Ziff Griffin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A searingly beautiful page-turner.” —Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author “A thrilling, thoughtful meditation on life and death.” —Hello Giggles “Gorgeously written.” —School Library Journal (starred review) As a mysterious virus infects the world’s population, a girl embarks on a quest to find a cure in this thrilling debut from Emily Ziff Griffin. Luisa is ready for her life to start. Five minutes ago. And she could be on her way, as her extraordinary coding skills have landed her a finalist spot for a fellowship sponsored by Thomas Bell, the world’s most brilliant and mercurial tech entrepreneur. Being chosen means funding, mentorship, and most importantly, freedom from her overbearing mother. Maybe Lu will even figure out how to control the rare condition that plagues her: whenever her emotions run high, her physical senses kick into overload, with waves of color, sound, taste, and touch flooding her body. But Luisa’s life is thrust into chaos as a deadly virus sweeps across the globe, killing thousands and sending her father into quarantine. When Lu receives a cryptic message from someone who might hold the key to stopping the epidemic, she knows she must do something to save her family—and the world. Suspenseful, lyrical, and thought-provoking, Light Years features a remarkable heroine on an intensely physical and emotional quest for hope and existential meaning.

Author : Stephen Adly Guirgis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0571211011
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Judas Iscariot written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious sinner.--[book cover].

Author : Nick Flynn
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979343
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Ether written by Nick Flynn and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a "Discovery"/The Nation Award Winner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry Some Ether is one of the more remarkable debut collections of poetry to appear in America in recent memory. As Mark Doty has noted, "these poems are more than testimony; in lyrics of ringing clarity and strange precision, Flynn conjures a will to survive, the buoyant motion toward love which is sometimes all that saves us. Some Ether resonates in the imagination long after the final poem; this is a startling, moving debut."

Author : David Carr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471108422
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Night of the Gun written by David Carr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Carr was an addict for more than twenty years -- first dope, then coke, then finally crack -- before the prospect of losing his newborn twins made him sober up in a bid to win custody from their crack-dealer mother. Once recovered, he found that his recollection of his 'lost' years differed -- sometimes radically -- from that of his family and friends. The night, for example, his best friend pulled a gun on him. 'No,' said the friend (to David's horror, as a lifelong pacifist), 'It was you that had the gun.' Using all his skills as an investigative reporter, he set out to research his own life, interviewing everyone from his parents and his ex-partners to the policemen who arrested him, the doctors who treated him and the lawyers who fought to prove he was fit to have custody of his kids. Unflinchingly honest and beautifully written, the result is both a shocking account of the depths of addiction and a fascinating examination of how -- and why -- our memories deceive us. As David says, we remember the stories we can live with, not the ones that happened.

Author : Gerald Clarke
Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 0795331169
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capote written by Gerald Clarke and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national bestselling biography and the basis for the film Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in an Academy Award–winning turn. One of the strongest fiction writers of his generation, Truman Capote became a literary star while still in his teens. His most phenomenal successes include Breakfast at Tiffany’s, In Cold Blood, and Other Voices, Other Rooms. Even while his literary achievements were setting the standards that other fiction and nonfiction writers would follow for generations, Capote descended into a spiral of self-destruction and despair. This biography by Gerald Clarke was first published in 1988—just four years after Capote’s death. In it, Clarke paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the author’s life—based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the man himself and the people close to him. From the glittering heights of notoriety and parties with the rich and famous to his later struggles with addiction, Capote emerges as a richly multidimensional person—both brilliant and flawed. “A book of extraordinary substance, a study rich in intelligence and compassion . . . To read Capote is to have the sense that someone has put together all the important pieces of this consummate artist’s life, has given everything its due emphasis, and comprehended its ultimate meaning.” —Bruce Bawer, The Wall Street Journal “Mesmerising . . . [Capote] reads as if it had been written alongside his life, rather than after it.” —Molly Haskell, The New York Times Book Review

Author : M. Bolsi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788898009084
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philip Seymour Hoffman. The actor that rocked written by M. Bolsi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: