Philip Seymour Hoffman dead of apparent drug overdose

Here’s the nifty part:

A needle was in the actor’s left arm, and eight empty glassine-type bags that usually contain heroin were found in the apartment

He died with the needle In His Arm. Commitment to cause, buddy.

Now, it may be that PSH is actually Dead Celeb #2:

Oscar-winning actor Maximilian Schell dies at 83

A lot of people rave about Hoffman, but I’ve never paid him much mind. The extremely few roles of his I’ve actually seen just didn’t make an impression on me. But Schell? Holy crap, dude. I saw “The Black Hole” in the theater when it came out, and even though in the decades since I can see that it was a “lesser” movie… it was a Disney flick where at the end not only does the Interesting Mad Sciency Bad Guy die… he GOES TO HELL.

That’s neat.

But there’s always an up side to any story…