46 and he’s gone …

Philip Seymour Hoffman is dead.

He was one of my very favourite American actors. I was appalled to learn of it. It’s something that makes you want to cry “Oh NOOoooo!” – and I did. But it’s true. I didn’t know he had problems with substance abuse, the poor bastard.

A few years back, I learned by chance of the death of one of my all-time favourite French actors, Jocelyn Quivrin. It was just the same: “Oh NOoooo!” … He was 30. He crashed his sports car in St Cloud: they say he’d just had a huge r...