Suspend any expectation that the actor playing Truman Capote in the one-man play Tru, now on at Theatre Three, will attempt an impression of the author as accurate as the late Philip Seymour Hoffman ...

Petrified. That's how actor Philip Seymour Hoffman describes his reaction to Truman Capote's voice as he watched "A Visit With Truman Capote," a 1966 documentary about the author by David and Albert ...

He was eccentric, brilliant, and born to be a celebrity. But he also was emotionally shattered by his book “In Cold Blood,” the very book that made him a household name. He never finished another book ...

We lost one of the greats Sunday. Critically acclaimed actor and director Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his Manhattan apartment Sunday of a suspected drug overdose. Though he wasn’t playing ...

NEW YORK — Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in “Capote” and created a gallery of other vivid characters, many of them slovenly ...

Oscar-winning actor and director Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York City apartment Sunday. The beloved character actor began his career in 1991 in an episode of Law and Order, but ...

This fall, the roll call of gigantic ghosts inhabiting cinematic biographic continues unabated, with Joaquin Phoenix as a shrunken Johnny Cash in Ring of Fire, David Strathairn as an inscrutable ...

The movie truism is that stars play themselves, while actors play other people — troubled or toxic, and memorably strange. By that definition, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who disappeared into the rabbit ...