RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman

{Photograph by Nigel Parry}

I was shocked and saddened by the news of Philip Seymour Hoffman's death (funny how we always refer to him using all three names). It also dumfounds me. I saw him once in New York, when I was back there on a visit a few years after I left . He was leaving a restaurant I was at, a west village local spot. It made me feel very local and very cool to be dining where he dined. He was a genius; one of my all time favourite actors - if Philip Seymour Hoffman was in it, I would watch the movie. RIP.