Of course, the real tragedy is the addiction and death. But there is also this: Hoffman could have been truly amazing in that great will-o-the-wisp of films, the adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. He had the necessary seriousness required to make Ignatius Reilly's comic ridiculousness work like gangbusters.
Of course, the real tragedy is the addiction and death. But there is also this: Hoffman could have been truly amazing in that great will-o-the-wisp of films, the adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. He had the necessary seriousness required to make Ignatius Reilly's comic ridiculousness work like gangbusters.
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