Creator and writer of The West Wing and director of The Social Network has taken to Time Magazine to share a particularly personal and poignant obituary for the recently passed Philip Seymour Hoffman. As per Sorkin, the Oscar winning writer/producer and the world renowned actor, Hoffman, shared similar struggles with drug addiction.
Below is an excerpt from Sorkin's obituary, and for the full whack, head over yonder to Time.
"Phil Hoffman and I had two things in common. We were both fathers of young children, and we were both recovering drug addicts. Of course I'd known Phil's work for a long time - since his remarkably perfect film debut as a privileged, cowardly prep-school kid in Scent of a Woman - but I'd never met him until the first table read for Charlie Wilson’s War, in which he'd been cast as Gust Avrakotos, a working-class CIA agent who'd fallen out of favor with his Ivy League colleagues. A 180-degree turn."
