Philip Seymour Hoffman Was My Boy Next Door

Smoking cigs and dating advice

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I had a lot of late nights in my mid-twenties. I was a gossip columnist back then working for the New York Daily News. Most evenings went on until well after midnight, at which point I would almost always manage to tear myself away from the festivities and get myself back to my West Village apartment in time to ge…