Philip Seymour Hoffman's Great Gift: Understatement
The late actor could make unforgettable a gesture as tiny as flipping his sunglasses.
Writing my end-of-the-year prizes a month and a half ago, I included among them “The ‘Philip Seymour Hoffman Makes Any Movie Better’ Award,” for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. It was jokey commendation, of course, but not really a joke. Of the nearly three dozen performances of Hoffman’s that I have witnessed onscreen,
