Phillip Seymour Hoffman

He was a Catholic.  It figures.  He was able to get inside the person who suffers, is marginalized, persecuted, and isolated.  Jesus knew how to touch these people.  They both could connect.  Hoffman never would have made it as the swashbuckling hero, like a John Wayne.  Hoffman played real people, with whom we could identify, if we were brutally honest with ourselves.  I never could get into Rooster Cogburn with the eye patch in the western.  Oh. John Wayne became a Catholic on his deathbed.  Had he lived, I think he would have told his agent to get real.  Real can be tragic.  Hoffman had his demons.  Don't we all?  Constant vigilance is what I know.