Tuesday, January 17, 2006

AT LEAST THEY'RE CONSISTENT
Or, how should one describe Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance in Capote?

WATCHING Philip Seymour Hoffman (big head, big body, big deep voice) embody Truman Capote (small head, small body, bizarre baby voice) in "Capote," you want to throw every acting award there is at him and maybe a couple of Olympic medals, too. What concentration! What shape shifting!


The New York Times
January 15, 2006

Or maybe like this:

The "Capote" preview is shrewdly effective, too, although the movie's selling point would have been obvious even to a student of "Marketing for Dummies": Philip Seymour Hoffman's shape-shifting embodiment of Truman Capote. (He and Mr. Ledger are considered locks on best-actor nominations.)

The New York Times
January 15, 2006

Philip Seymour Hoffman: the shape-shiftiest actor of our generation. And if you doubt it, the Times will just keep telling that to you until you give in.