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| | Philip Seymour Hoffman: Oscar hopeful talks rehab and stardom | Interviews | guardian.co.uk Film |
 | | Hoffman was born in Fairport, New York, in 1967, one of four children (his parents divorced when he was nine). |
 | | For his part as Capote, Hoffman did the usual actorly rigmarole - he read the Gerald Clarke biography on which the film draws, he read the George Plimpton oral history ('basically a book of gossip, which made it excellent') and he got hold of all the tapes of Capote being interviewed and performing. |
 | | The reason why Hoffman is now being garlanded with awards is because he has achieved not just an impersonation but an embodiment: the delicate voice is there, of course, and the fey posturing, but there is also a deep empathy with his inner turmoils. |
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