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Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lester Bangs and Almost Famous

Jaan Uhelszki, Spin, 3 February 2014

WHEN PHILIP Seymour Hoffman died Sunday of an apparent overdose in his Greenwich Village apartment, it was like losing Lester Bangs all over again.

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