Philip Seymour Hoffman dead: Remembering the master with one of his best scenes, from Almost Famous.

 


For all of the indelible parts he played, the role that come to mind first when I heard about his shocking death was his depiction of Lester Bangs. In this scene from Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous, Hoffman calls on his vast reserves of empathy to offer wise counsel to Patrick Fugit’s William Miller. The most important lesson: “The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool.”

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Philip Seymour Hoffman dead: Remembering the master with one of his best scenes, from Almost Famous. (Video)