Philip Seymour Hoffman's Last Days — rollingstone.com

In honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman's final film, A Most Wanted Man, hitting theaters today, we are reprinting David Browne's cover story on the actor's final days from our February 27th issue.  Slouched in the front row of the labyrinth Theater Company's performance space in New York's West Village last May, Philip Seymour Hoffman was his typical focused, superdisciplined self. In the intimate 90-seat theater, Hoffman – always dressed in one or another of his seemingly interchangeable baggy pants and sweaters – was relentlessly pushing the cast and crew of the play he was directing, A Family for All Occasions, a new work by his friend Bob Glaudini. With his trademark near-religious quest for perfection, Hoffman obsessed over every aspect of the production. "From the napkin holder on the dining room table, every minute detail was debated and thought out," recalls the company's managing director, Danny Feldman. "Even after opening night, he said, 'We're still working – we're still in rehearsal.'"

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