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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Malware help and skepticism
Date: 4 Feb 2014 23:57:33 GMT
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On 2014-02-04, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2014.02.04, 15:00 , Your Name wrote:
>
>> Like most minor celebrities, he's really only attained "notoriety" for
>> killing himself with drugs, at which point all the idiot "journalists"
>> start saying what a pity because he was so great.    :-\
>
> Hardly minor.  Hoffman was a very fine actor (stage and screen) who took 
> on difficult and unusual roles.  Earning a Best Actor Academy Award 
> playing an iconic figure in a low budget movie is not something seen often.
>
> His spook, Avakadros (sp?) in "Charlie Wilson's War" was deadpan 
> brilliant.  Many others.
>
> But of course anything you're ignorant about is not worth any 
> consideration.  That's one hell of a blind spot and explains other 
> "positions" you've taken.

Yep. Well said.

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