Magnolia's Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead

A talented actor who has appeared in several Fortean films has died. A star in many films, including Magnolia, The Master, and Hunger Games, Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead. (See more on the twilight language of The Master here.)

One of the actual film prop frogs from Magnolia, 

at the International Cryptozoology Museum.

The Wall Street Journal has posted:

Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead Sunday afternoon in his New York City apartment, a law-enforcement official said. The New York Police Department is investigating, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to determine exact cause of death. The official said Mr. Hoffman, 46 years old, was found dead at his apartment at 35 Bethune St. in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan. Mr. Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2005 film, "Capote."

The meaning of Bethune is "House of God."
The New York Post noted:

Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent drug overdose — in the bathroom with a hypodermic needle still in his arm — inside a Greenwich Village home on Sunday morning, cops said.

Wikipedia's early life information details the following:

Hoffman was born in Fairport, New York. His mother, Marilyn O'Connor (née Loucks), who was born in Waterloo, New York, is a family court judge, lawyer, and civil rights activist. His father, Gordon Stowell Hoffman, is a former Xerox executive. He had two sisters, Jill and Emily, and a brother, Gordy Hoffman, who scripted the 2002 film Love Liza, in which Philip starred. He had German, English, Irish, Dutch, and remote Polish, ancestry. His father was Protestant and his mother Catholic; Hoffman was not raised with a deep commitment to any denomination. Hoffman's parents divorced when he was nine years old.
Hoffman attended the 1984 Theater School at the New York State Summer School of the Arts. After graduating from Fairport High School, Hoffman attended the Circle in the Square Theatre's summer program, continuing his acting training with the acting teacher Alan Langdon. He received a BFA in drama in 1989 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. At NYU, he was a founding member of the theater company the Bullstoi Ensemble with actor Steven Schub and director Bennett Miller. Soon after graduating, he went to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction and remained sober until May 2013, when he entered a detox facility after briefly relapsing.

The Master: L. Ron Hubbard?

The ultimate Fayette Factor movie is on its way. 

Coming sooner than you can imagine is The Master, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The movie reportedly is about "The Cause," a seemingly disguised religion that has been compared to Scientology. 
It is due for release on October 12, 2012.
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a character named "Lancaster Dodd." Dodd has a great deal in common with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986).  One item being mentioned on locations such as Wikipedia is that Hubbard "served in the U.S. Navy in World War II and after his release from the hospital founded the belief system" today called "Scientology" in 1952. 
In The Master, 1952 is the year for the founding of the film's religion too.
That's L for Lafayette, by the way, in Hubbard's name.


How deeply will this film explore the amazing fabric that is there to examine?


Even one-third of the occult material available from the life of L. Ron Hubbard would be intriguing to view via Anderson's directing abilities:

In August 1945 Hubbard moved into the Pasadena mansion of John "Jack" Whiteside Parsons. A leading rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology and a founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Parsons led a double life as an avid occultist and Thelemite, follower of the English ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley and leader of a lodge of Crowley's magical order, Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO). He let rooms in the house only to tenants who he specified should be "atheists and those of a Bohemian disposition."
Hubbard befriended Parsons and soon became sexually involved with Parsons's 21-year-old girlfriend, Sara "Betty" Northrup.

 

Paul Thomas Anderson is also the director of Magnolia, the 1999 film which has become a Fortean classic, complete with frog falls, Charles Fort book covers, synchronicity incidents, and more. My chapter examining the 1999 film more closely is entitled, "The Teleporting Animals and Magnolia," and is in my book, Mysterious America.