So-Called President Trump’s refusal to answer questions is nothing new. 
Charlton Heston nailed this role beautifully in Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine. 
As did Tom Cruise in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. 
Well, as have many young folks from time immemorial.
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Still Angry with Philip Seymour Hoffman
I get that Philip Seymour Hoffman had an addiction. I get that he was a sensitive person who ate himself up with his intensity and devotion to his work.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman in “Owning Mahoney”
And I get that there is a black hole staring back at all of us. 
And I know that there are few, if any, who can match, Hoffman’s talent, his roles in Happiness, Magnolia, Doubt and on stage as Willy Loman.
“Death of a Salesman”
But I’m still pissed off at the guy. His death makes me lousy. Not sad. Mad.
- Hoffman in “Happiness”
His energy is gone, fucking gone. I can’t forgive him. Not yet.
And I expect it to be a while before that changes, considering that I’ve yet to forgive Jerry Garcia for his dumb-ass death…18 years back..