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Philip Seymour Hoffman's movies are one of a kind because the talented actor always brought a characteristic depth to his roles, as no matter how much is revealed about his characters, it always seems like there's more to figure out. Hoffman also had great range; he was capable to switch from nonchalant to furious, serious to comical. He sadly passed away in 2014, though his son, Cooper Hoffman, carries on his legacy.

Hoffman has an extensive filmography that appeases all tastes, and although it includes modern classics such as The Big Lebowski and Synecdoche, New York, these movies are either too divisive or Hoffman plays too small of a role to count them as his best. The movies where he truly stands out are bold and thought-provoking pieces where he's got the freedom of a lead role to carry the narrative by himself, or are otherwise highly-rated movies where Hoffman...

As summer must eventually come to an end, so must these titles’ time on Netflix.

With Halloween right around the corner, the streaming service will remove all eight seasons of “The Vampire Diaries,” as well as several thriller and horror films including “Nightcrawler,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Seven” and “Insidious” so be sure to watch these spooky season classics before the end of the month.

The streaming service will no longer be the home for cherished TV series, including “Quantico,” “Saved by the Bell,” “Gotham” and “Dark Matter.” Netflix will also scrap classic titles, like “Catch Me If You Can,” “Mean Girls,” “Taxi Driver,” “Dirty Harry” and “Dumb and Dumber.”

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Here’s What’s New on Netflix in September 2022

Here’s the complete list of what’s leaving Netflix this month:

Sept. 1

Quantico: Seasons 1-3

Sept. 2

Freaks

Sept. 3

The Vampire Diaries: Seasons 1-8

Sept. 9

Nightcrawler

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It's been announced that as a way of celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Robert L. Ripley's founding of Ripley's Believe It or Not!, the Travel Channel has invited Evil Dead alum Bruce Campbell to host a reboot of the legendary series. According to reports, Campbell will also executive produce the show in addition to hosting 10 one-hour episodes of the series “that…...

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! is making yet another return, 100 years after Robert L. Ripley launched the brand. Travel Channel is rebooting the iconic series, with Bruce Campbell as host and executive producer.

Travel Channel has ordered 10 one-hour episodes of the series “that will showcase the most astonishing, real and one-of-a-kind stories,” according to the channel. Currently in production, the series will be shot on location at the famed Ripley Warehouse in Orlando, Florida, and will incorporate incredible stories from all parts of the globe — from Brazil to Baltimore. The series is slated to premiere in summer 2019.

“Travel Channel fans have an insatiable curiosity about the world and sharing this wonderful and weird series with the next generation of fans is a thrill,” says Jane Latman, general manager, Travel Channel. “This entirely new version of Ripley’s is a fresh contemporary approach to the odd...

If you’re in or around the Ocean City, MD area and are looking for some spooky scares to spice up your Halloween season then this next story should really get your ghost! From the Press Release: Ripley’s Believe It or… Continue Reading →

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It could be easy to dismiss Ingrid Goes West as an attack on society’s newfound reliance on social media, perhaps a not too distant cousin of some Black Mirror episode; but the truth is somewhat more layered. Yes – Ingrid focuses on a troubled woman (Aubrey Plaza) consumed by the ideal Instagram lives of others (Elizabeth Olsen & Wyatt Russell) to the point where she moves to La and befriends said Insta-couple so as to be Exactly like them. Which (to be fair) paints a rather ‘stalkery’/Talented Mr. Ripley-esque portrait of social media. Yet the film also …...

A menacing presence took over Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! Times Square Odditorium last night. That paranormal habitation was felt by Shockya, as we were generously given the opportunity to to attend a press preview of the supernatural invasion of the popular New York City-based museum. A group of 13 Annabelle dolls from New Line […]

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Planning to be in or near New York City early next month? If so, Annabelle, the star of New Line Cinema’s Annabelle: Creation, will be taking over a popular Times Square landmark for one day only on Friday, August 4th;… Continue Reading →

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It was the weapon of choice by everyone's favorite Jedi in a galaxy far, far away and its worth about as much as a house. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the lightsaber prop used by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back sold for just about a half a million dollars to the Ripley company, which is based in Orlando.

The lightsaber was part of the collection owned by producer Gary Kurtz and may be on display at one of the Believe It or Not locations around the country, but the company hasn't specified which one yet, the newspaper reported. 

The lightsaber may have sold for a ton of cash ($450,000), but it's not even close to being the biggest Star Wars item auctioned off, an original R2-D2 unit that was used for the original trilogy sold for nearly $3 million. 

The 43-inch...

2017-07-02T13:33:17-07:00Luke Skywalker's Lightsaber Sold for $450,000

It's an elegant weapon for a more civilized age — and it went for a lot of coin.

The lightsaber prop used by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back sold recently for nearly half a million dollars to the Ripley company, which is based in Orlando, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

The lightsaber was part of the collection owned by producer Gary Kurtz and may be on display at one of the Believe It or Not locations around the country, but the company hasn't specified which one yet, the newspaper reported.

Read the rest of this article at The Hollywood Reporter.

The next Star Wars movie to hit theaters will be Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi.

It's an elegant weapon for a more civilized age — and it went for a lot of coin.

The lightsaber prop used by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back sold recently for nearly half a million dollars to the Ripley company, which is based in Orlando, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

The lightsaber was part of the collection owned by producer Gary Kurtz and may be on display at one of the Believe It or Not locations around the country, but the company hasn't specified which one yet, the newspaper reported.

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We’ve been hearing about a Hugh Jackman-fronted P.T. Barnum biopic for quite a few years now. The project was originally announced back in 2009, and at that time it seemed like a response to Tim Burton and Jim Carrey’s Robert Ripley biopic Believe It or Not! (which in turn had been in development since 2005). […]...

Hospitality isn't a given in Savannah. Southern Charm Savannah's cast is still obsessed with Nelson Lewis' past, and we kind of can't blame them? The guy basically pulled a Talented Mr. Ripley in Washington, D.C.,  pretending to be Rep. Jack Kingston, back in 2011 when he was an Fnc staffer and Laura Ingraham Show producer. Since the Bravo reality series' debut, Nelson's political scandal has dominated dinner table conversations and caused a chorus of whispers at social gatherings. And one of his friend's has finally had enough. "Why are everyone's lives so small that you care what happened with Nelson?" Ashley Borders asks at the beginning of E!...

It’s one of the most unforgettable, uncomfortable moments of 20th century pop culture: Marilyn Monroe serenading President John F. Kennedy as he turned 45 with a sultry, breathy rendition of “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” in May 1962. Considering that Monroe and Kennedy were widely rumored to have been lovers, this might have been some of the most brazenly inappropriate public flirting of all time.

Monroe’s gown from that evening—a skintight, flesh-colored, crystal-bedecked Jean Louis creation based on a Bob Mackie sketch—became an icon in its own right. And this week, the souffle gauze garment brought in a whopping $4.8 million at auction, far exceeding the $3 million guide price. Purchased on Thursday by the RIpley’s Believe It Or Not museum chain (presumably as a future exhibit), the clingy dress was the centerpiece of an extensive, three-day auction of Monroe’s possessions at Julien’s ...

Marilyn Monroe's famous "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" dress sold for a staggering $4.8 million on Thursday.

The dress, which was presented on a custom-made mannequin designed to match Monroe’s exact body measurements, was bought by Ripley's Believe It or Not. The purchase makes this sparkly ensemble the world's most expensive dress ever sold at auction.

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Monroe wore the nude figure-hugging dress at President John F. Kennedy's 45th birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962. Her sultry "Happy Birthday" performance was caught on tape, and despite the poor quality footage, it has allowed for the dress and moment to live on.

Watch: Prince's 'Purple Rain' Coat Is Up for Auction -- Find Out the Asking Price!

The iconic dress, which features 2,500 hand-stitched crystals, was designed by Academy Award-winning costume designer Jean Louis and the original sketch...

When Marilyn Monroe passed away in 1962, she was already an icon – but her legacy has surpassed any thing she could have imagined. Her visage adorns every type of paraphernalia imaginable, her impersonators crowd Times Square and Hollywood Boulevard, and of course, there was that time that superfans could buy a lock of her hair aboard a cruise ship for a reasonable $8,000.

And at an auction hosted by Julien’s, which began on Thursday and will continue through the weekend, one of the actress’s most recognizable gowns, the one she wore to wish President John F. Kennedy a very sexy happy birthday,...

The iconic dress worn by Marilyn Monroe when she sang “happy birthday Mr President” to John F Kennedy has sold for a world-record price at auction, fetching Us$4.8m (£3.87m) in La on Thursday. The sheer, flesh-coloured design, which features more than 2,500 hand-stitched crystals, was bought by museum chain Ripley’s Believe It Or Not

Marilyn Monroe’s ‘Happy birthday, Mr President’ dress sells for record $4.8m

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Sheer dress worn by actor to serenade John F Kennedy in 1962 auctioned in La for world-record sum to museum chain Ripley’s Believe It Or Not

The famous dress worn by Marilyn Monroe when she sang “happy birthday Mr President” to John F Kennedy has sold for a world-record price at auction, fetching Us$4.8m (£3.87m).

Related: ‘Happy Birthday, Mr President’: the story of Marilyn Monroe and that dress

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Available for only 24 hours starting at midnight tonight, Fright Rags presents a Conner family Halloween shirt of epic proportions featuring the "original Becky"! Also in today's Horror Highlights: Stern Pinball Arcade virtual reality AC/DC experience details, Zombies!!! Board Game Soundtrack release details and cover art, and details on XLrator Media's acquisition of Werner Herzog's Salt and Fire.

Fright Rags' Roseanne Halloween Midnight Madness Shirt: This new Fright Rags shirt shows the Conner family from Roseanne getting into the Halloween spirit.

Priced at $18.00, the new shirt will be available for a 24-hour period beginning at 12:01 am Edt on Saturday morning and ending at midnight on Saturday night.

It will never be reprinted by Fright Rags, so if you're interested in purchasing this latest Midnight Madness shirt, then keep an eye on Fright Rags' official website this weekend.

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“So we can’t call Ripley’s Believe it or Not, because… they wouldn’t believe it.”

The Iron Giant screens Friday night, April 15th at 9:30pm in Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium (470 E. Lockwood Ave.). The screening is Free

Without doubt one of the very best animated films of the past twenty years, Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant (1999) is a fabulous love letter to 1950s science fiction b-movies and b-fiction. The central figure is as grand and cool a physical design for a robot as ever put on film; perfectly balanced with the character of the robot.

The Iron Giant (voiced by Vin Diesel), befriended by a young boy named Hogarth (voiced by Eli Marienthal) who is himself a Sf b-movie junkie during the reactionary 1950s time period, engages the boy and his beatnik confidant Dean McCoppin (Harry Connick) with his trust. The Iron Giant comes to understand his own nature,...

Patricia Highsmith‘s name may not be quite famous enough to be a brand unto itself, like Jane Austen or Stephen King, but you’ve been watching her work for ages even if you don’t realize it. Most recently, her novel The Price of Salt was turned into the remarkable drama Carol, but adaptations of her writing go all the way back to 1951’s Strangers […]

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The Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in NYC is baffled over the recent theft of 2 shrunken heads and a Joe Dimaggio bat -- and now it's offering up a cash reward to catch the crooks. The bat was from the Yankee great's historic 56-game hitting streak -- and the heads are from an Amazon tribe, which was probably on a streak too. Employees noticed the items were gone Wednesday, and police have no leads right now,...

Actress Rose Siggins, best known for playing Legless Suzi on American Horror Story: Freak Show, died Saturday at a Denver hospital. She was 43.

According to TMZ, Siggins was admitted on Monday for kidney stone surgery, during which she contracted an infection that ultimately became fatal.

The actress suffered from sacral agenesis, a rare genetic disorder that affects development of the lower spine. She appeared on several nonfiction series to discuss her condition, including Extraordinary People, Born Different and Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!

She also appeared in Schlitzie: One of Us, a documentary about the titular sideshow performer.

The jump scare is a uniquely horror movie convention. Where some movies use it as an excuse to play peekaboo and assault you with noise, others use it as a way to shatter your complacency as a viewer. It’s the purest form of scare: something bursts out of a dark corner, a loud noise cuts the tension, or a jolt to the plot comes on so unexpected, you don’t know what hit you. It may just be a momentary fright, but a good horror movie will put you on edge and keep you there.

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Alien (1979)- No blood, no Dallas

Horror purists are of the mind that jumps are cheap, and, for the most part, they are. Yet, in those nerve-wracking scenes, when a director knows exactly what they are doing, it’s riveting. I’ve always prided myself on not being one of those people who gets jumpy during a horror movie,...

Ben Affleck has won two Oscars; Matt Damon has only won one. Matt Damon slept with Sarah Silverman; Ben Affleck slept with Jimmy Kimmel. Now that the two of them are action stars again, which one of their onscreen alter egos would win in a fight? Matt Damon has one theory: "Jason Bourne would kick the s--t out of Batman — absolutely!" Damon said when posed the question by EW. "Batman’s gotta take on Superman first. If he could beat him then maybe he could take on Jason Bourne." He makes a good point: Batman's movement is often limited by his cumbersome suit, and Jason Bourne has been known to do some damage with only a ballpoint pen. But that doesn't answer the question the people really want answered: Would the talented Mr. Ripley beat the, umm, well-intentioned Mr. Gigli?...

While we often lament some of the films that end up stuck in development Hell, never to become realized on the big screen, there are some films we should all be glad never came to fruition.

Sometimes they don’t get it! We all know that the film industry is a business and they want to make money, but Hollywood doesn’t always realize that the best way to do that is to make a good film. Sometimes, Hollywood’s habit of taking a known property and stretching them out to absurd proportions proves that they just don’t get the point. Fortunately, there are times when someone recognizes a bad idea and puts on the brakes. Below is a list of 14 films where someone was smart enough to notice that they were making a pile of trash and threw in the towel.

Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian

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On the eve of the premiere of the third season of NBC's"Hannibal," show runner Bryan Fuller has spoken with THR about the new season which boasts not just key new characters but a "dreamlike" quality as he calls it.

It won't be until the fourth episode of the season where we see events directly after last season's finale with much of the cast seemingly left for dead. The premiere on the other hand kicks off eight months later with Hannibal and Bedelia right in the thick of it in Florence. Also by ditching the murder of the week elements, Fuller says it allows us "just to connect the characters and their honest pursuit of Hannibal".

Each of the first seven episodes have a "movie paradigm" as he calls it, with the episode being akin to a famous movie. The first is " a bit of Talented Mr. Ripley" with the...

Talented Mr. Ripley may be coming to TV, and if he's done right, he could be the next Dexter.

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Words With Friends: Gozlan’s Stylish Noir all Amalgamated Pulp

Enjoyably anxious, director Yann Gozlan’s sophomore feature A Perfect Man (Un homme idéal) would better recall suspense masters like Hitchcock or Chabrol if its narrative felt a little less familiar. As such, it seems more like the B noir cousin of the cinema Gozlan is in conversation with rather than a revisionist take on one of cinema’s greatest femme fatales—karma. Featuring an excellent lead performance from recent Cesar award winning actor Pierre Niney, there’s much to admire even as Gozlan overdoses with increasing complications that hinge on the ludicrous.

Mathieu Vasseur (Niney) is an aspiring novelist, whose first manuscript, The Man From Behind, has been promptly rejected by publishers. Working vaguely as some sort of janitorial staff and/or garbage man, Vasseur stumbles into a lecture being given about scent’s relationship to memory and literature...

CBS has added Dean Cain and Helen Slater to its “Supergirl” drama, a spokesperson for Warner Bros. Television told TheWrap on Friday. The actors, who played Superman on “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” and Supergirl in the film of the same name, are set to guest star on the pilot, but their roles are yet unknown. See Photos: The Faces of Pilot Season 2015 Cain starred on the romance-filled superhero drama “Lois & Clark” opposite Teri Hatcher (Lois Lane) for four seasons. He later hosted TBS’s “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” and starred on the NBC drama “Las Vegas.

TV Picks: American Experience Presents “Ripley: Believe It or Not” premiering on PBS January 6, 2015!LeRoy Robert Ripley rose to fame during the Great Depression, transforming himself from a skinny, buck-toothed boy into an entertainer who mesmerized the nation with his razzle-dazzle blend of homespun Americana, colorful exotica and freakish oddities.Over three decades, his “Believe It or Not!” franchise grew into an entertainment empire, expanding from newspapers to every form of “new media” in the 20th century: radio, film and, ultimately, television. At the center of it all was Ripley, whose obsession with the odd and keen eye for the […]...

The upcoming horror flick Ouija is scaring up serious attention with the release of a new viral video featuring Jalisa Thompson and her bulging eyes.

The upcoming horror flick Ouija is scaring up serious attention with the release of a new viral video featuring Jalisa Thompson and her bulging eyes.

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In the video, Jalisa, 25, poses as a psychic for unsuspecting customers that freak out when Jalisa makes her eyes pop out -- a talent that helped her win Ripley's Annual Great Face Off in 2006 and 2011. The contest, designed to find the person who can make the craziest face, is presented annually by the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium in Atlantic City.

Thinkmodo, the viral video marketing agency behind the telekinetic coffee shop gag for the movie Carrie and the Devil's Due baby prank, helped develop the stunt.

"We took over a little wine store in Brooklyn," said Thinkmodo...

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Believe it or not, it’s already been two whole years since Ridley Scott’s Prometheus graced our screens and…produced one of the most venomously divisive reactions to any blockbuster in recent memory.

Even ignoring that, its box office gross was a solid $403 million, ensuring Fox were eager to press on with a follow-up, tentatively titled Paradise, which would presumably see sole survivor Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) carrying android David’s (Michael Fassbender) head with her to the Engineer homeworld in order to find out why they wanted to wipe out humanity.

Though we can’t deny that there’s at least some interesting potential there, we’re still waiting on tenterhooks for a fifth Alien film, something both James Cameron and Ridley Scott expressed an interest in pursuing last decade (with Cameron writing and Scott directing), though Cameron has changed his mind since the AvP movies happened,...

It’s a casting-o-rama Friday. With Cannes around the corner and the entire industry getting together for their quarterly wheeling and dealing, it means a lot of pacts are being made. Perhaps the most interesting is the adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel ‘The Blunderer.” She is obviously the writer of the Talented Mr. Ripley series and this non-Ripley-centered psychological thriller will star Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel, Toby Jones and Imogen Poots. Andy Goddard will direct. [Deadline] Former “Downton Abbey” star Dan Stevens and “Boardwalk Empire” lead Michael Pitt are on the rise. They’ll both star alongside John Travolta in the drama, “Criminal Activities.” Actor Jackie Earle Haley will make his directing debut and the film centers on four friends who make a risky investment together that puts them in trouble with the mob. Pitt fell off their for a couple years, but between “Boardwalk Empire” and roles in “I Origins” and other indies,...

Ja from Mnpp here, back from vacation with a brand new round of "Beauty Vs. Beast." So here's the question (or rather the first question): what's your favorite Francis Ford Coppola movie? The legendary helmer's turning 75 today and so we look back through his work - the Godfathers, the Conversations, the Peggy Sues... the super sad undead love stories... listen, I'm not going to argue that his 1992 version of Dracula is his best film - I'd rather make it through the day without y'all calling the men in white suits to my door, thank you very much. But it's surely the movie of his I've watched the most times and have gotten the most pleasure from (give or take some Rob Lowe coming out of the shower in The Outsiders). The old fashioned effects work, Eiko Ishioka's astounding costumes - I wore my copy of the behind-the-scenes book down to a nub.

EW has reporters covering tonight’s Oscars from every angle: on the red carpet, backstage, inside the theater, in the press room, and at the parties. Keep checking back throughout the night to find out what they’re seeing and hearing—and what you’re missing on TV.

On the red carpet:

++ The fans in the bleachers have started chanting “We want Ellen!”

Leonardo DiCaprio hugs Michael Fassbender #Oscars http://t.co/wi2aal51AO— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) March 03, 2014

Sudeikis gives us the thumbs up. #Oscars http://t.co/dIfweFd4ly— Lindsey Bahr (@ldbahr) March 03, 2014

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“Whenever there is a decline of righteousness and rise of unrighteousness then I send forth Myself.”

—Lord Krishna to Prince Arjuna,The Bhagavadgita (Song of God)

Sanskrit in origin, and a central principle of the Hindu religion, an avatar is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “the incarnation of a deity in human or animal form to counteract an evil in the world. A central principle of Hinduism, it usually refers to 10 appearances of Vishnu, including an incarnation as the Buddha Gautama and the Buddha yet to come, called Kalkin.”

In the 21st century, it has also come to mean that little picture that represents the user, blogger, columnist, commentator, gamer, or fan on the Internet, and (usually) will tell you something about that person, whether it is whom that user, blogger, columnist, commentator, gamer, or fan admires or identifies with, or even their sense of humor about themselves. (See...

She’s one of the most-respected actresses in the industry, so it’s no wonder Cate Blanchett scored the Best Actress trophy at the 2014 BAFTA Awards last night (February 16).

The “Blue Jasmine” babe looked lovely as she took the stage and dedicated her award to her “Talented Mr. Ripley” costar, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Cate explained, "I would like to dedicate this to an actor who has been a continual, profound touchstone for me, a monumental presence who is now so sadly in absence: the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman.”

Blanchett added, "Phil, your monumental talent, your unflinching quest for truth both in art and in life will be missed by so many people. You raised the bar continually. Phil, buddy, this is for you, you bastard. Hope you're proud."

And during her press room interview, Cate continued, "I don't think I'm alone in the room having been profoundly...

Review by Sam Moffitt

I was as shocked and saddened as anyone at hearing of the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Not that long ago I wrote a review of Jack Goes Boating for We Are Movie Geeks, directed by Hoffman and starring him in an amazing performance. I’m glad I did that as I had no way of knowing Hoffman wouldn’t be with us much longer. I cannot comment on the problems he had with addictions. I had my own substance issues for years. I never lost a job or stole anything to support any habit and I never had to go into rehab, I simply quit using anything. Two cups of coffee is about as wild as I get these days.

Of course the Hollywood haters came out on the internet and in newspaper letter columns slamming Hoffman and the entire Hollywood lifestyle. Again, I can...

Matt Damon took a break from laughing about George Clooney’s Tina Fey and Amy Poehler prank on “The Late Show with David Letterman” on Wednesday to address the loss of Philip Seymour Hoffman, who he believes was “one of the best actors to ever live.” “He was the best. He was incredible,” Damon said (above) of his “Talented Mr. Ripley” co-star. “He was a very special guy, and one of the best actors to ever live, I think. And that scene that I did with him in that movie was the best time I think I’ve ever had.

If you hadn't heard, this is "Psych's" final season (we know, we're upset too), but it's going out with a bang. There is nary a misstep between now and the series finale on March 26. Wednesday's (Feb. 5) episode starts the countdown to the end off right, with Dulé Hill's magnum opus as Burton Guster.

When John Russell, a man living a carbon-copy of Gus' life, dies in an apparent suicide, Gus is bound and determined to prove that he (Gus Russ) didn't kill himself. It was a ton of fun watching Gus be the head detective for once, since nobody believes him that Russell was actually murdered.

There's also the introduction of Emanuelle (Kali Hawk), a private detective and love interest for Gus. Here's hoping we haven't seen the last of her. It was also awesome to see Gus throw off the shackles of Central Coast Pharmaceuticals after all these years.

Matt Damon has paid tribute to his Talented Mr. Ripley co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Hoffman was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Sunday (February 2) from an apparent heroin overdose at the age of 46.

Damon, who appeared alongside Hoffman in the 1999 thriller, told Good Morning America that the late star "was one of the best actors that ever lived without a doubt".

"And he was an even better person. He was a beautiful person. It's horrible," added Damon.

According to police reports in Us media, Hoffman had up to 50 bags of heroin in his home at the time of his death.

He reportedly had "one major, emotional" scene left to film on The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 when he died.

The actor's passing has prompted tributes from all over the entertainment world, while Broadway will dim its lights on Wednesday (February 5) in honour of his career.

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In 1999, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law got the chance to star alongside Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman in the crime drama The Talented Mr. Ripley. Following the sudden death of the actor, he was only 46, on Sunday afternoon, Damon mourns the loss of his former co-star, telling Good Morning America on Tuesday that Hoffman was "one of the best actors that ever lived."

Related Pics: Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman In Photos

During his interview on the morning show, Damon referred to Hoffman as a "beautiful person" and said the reports that his co-star probably died of a heroin overdose are "horrible."

Related Video: Hoffman at Mr. Ripley Premiere

Meanwhile, Damon's co-star Gwyneth Paltrow shared a memory of the beloved actor, posting on Instagram: "Ischia 1998, post dinner, post shooting...Philip was a true genius. #philipseymourhoffman."

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She’s always shown such dedication to her craft, so it’s no wonder Gwyneth Paltrow felt a strong bond with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The “Shakespeare in Love” actress posted a tribute to her “Talented Mr. Ripley” costar, who died of a drug overdose on Sunday (February 2).

Gwyn uploaded a 1998 photograph of herself with Psh and Jude Law during an on-set break in Italy.

She added the caption, “Ischia 1998, post dinner, post shooting… Philip was a true genius. #philipseymourmoffman.”

Hoffman was well-loved and well-respected among his peers, and a ton of celebrities have tweeted about their sadness in the wake of his death.

Moviegoers around the world were shocked today to learn that Philip Seymour Hoffman had died at the age of 46 from an apparent drug overdose. As news of the actor's sudden passing spread, his colleagues and admirers took to social media to express their grief and love for a truly undeniable talent.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967-2014

"I'm so shocked, and so sad hearing of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death. I enjoyed playing with him on the Big Lebowski. He was such a wonderful guy, and so damn talented, a real treasure.

TV/film composer and conductor John Cacavas, whose credits include Airport 1975 and 1970s TV series Kojak, died January 28 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 83. The South Dakota native scored numerous TV series and films throughout his career beginning with the 1972 feature Horror Express. He went on to score the next two movies in the Airport franchise, Airport 1975 and Airport ’77. Cacavas had developed a strong friendship with Telly Savalas, leading to a long tenure as composer for the Kojak TV series (1973-78), including the series theme for its fifth and final season on CBS. His other TV credits include Hawaii Five-o, Matlock, Switch, Columbo, Mrs. Columbo, Quincy, Buck Rogers, Gangster Chronicles, Lady Blue, Four Seasons and Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. He also composed movies-of-the-week, TV pilots, mini-series and specials such as A Time to Triumph, Eddie Capra Mysteries, She Cried Murder, Time Machine, By Reason Of Insanity,...

What do you want for Christmas this year?  A Playstation 4, perhaps?  The Friday the 13th: Complete Collection Blu-ray set?  How about something a little bit more unique?  Something slightly more bizarre?  Something a whole lot more twisted?  I think I've got just the thing for you!

I'll never forget the first time I visited a Ripley's Believe it or Not! museum, where I was absolutely frightened and enchanted by the sight of shrunken heads up for grabs in the gift shop.  I had just learned about them in the museum, and the process that headhunters used to turn actual human heads into miniature charms, and I couldn't believe that they were actually being sold in the shop - and they were pretty cheap, too!

I admit I was a twisted little kid, and I wanted one more than anything else in the world at that moment in time.  Proving...

Oscar season is always a time for moviegoer euphoria and repugnance. Yes, we get to see a bunch of fab movies, but we’re also aware of which films will end up getting more (and perhaps undeserved) Academy attention thanks to star power and studio campaigning. For every warranted triumph like 12 Years a Slave, there are underdog crowd-pleasers like Enough Said, Philomena, and my pick for the true underrated gem of the year, Kill Your Darlings.

With a charming Daniel Radcliffe as a young Allen Ginsberg during his days at Columbia, the film explores the beginnings of the Beat movement with Ginsberg’s pals Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster), and a defiant beaut named Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), who murders longtime acquaintance David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) under mysterious circumstances. The movie is as much a bildungsroman of Ginsberg as it is a pulpy caper, and...

After eight seasons of blood and fun, Showtime's Dexter ended Sunday night on a note of ponderous sorrow and penitence. You might as soon have expected Hannibal Lecter to open a funeral home for the indigent, or the Talented Mr. Ripley to sculpt balloons into animals for nursing-home patients.

So what happened to Michael C. Hall's Dexter Morgan, the Miami forensic analyst who, in secret, was a serial killer who got off on murdering fellow serial killers?

Spoiler Alert: Plot details to follow.

He grew a thin red beard and, from what I could tell, became the very depressed employee of a logging company.

After eight seasons of blood and fun, Showtime's Dexter ended Sunday night on a note of ponderous sorrow and penitence. You might as soon have expected Hannibal Lecter to open a funeral home for the indigent, or the Talented Mr. Ripley to sculpt balloons into animals for nursing-home patients. So what happened to Michael C. Hall's Dexter Morgan, the Miami forensic analyst who, in secret, was a serial killer who got off on murdering fellow serial killers? Spoiler Alert: Plot details to follow. He grew a thin red beard and, from what I could tell, became the very depressed employee of a logging company.