Philip Seymour Hoffman
A brief article by Caryn James in the New York Times provides a good reason for watching the Oscars. James writes that Sunday’s show is going to be “about whether Philip Seymour Hoffman, if he wins for best actor, will keep a promise he made long ago. As he told David Letterman recently, he and Bennett Miller (also nominated for directing him in “Capote“) made a pact with a third friend when they were all teenagers: the first one to win an Oscar would have to bark his acceptance speech like a dog and continue until he is hauled off the stage. ”
