NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro penned a blog post on the National Reviews website where he blamed the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on the broken leftist culture that dominates Hollywood. <\/p>\n
Hoffman was found dead on Sunday in his Manhattan apartment from an apparent heroin overdose. <\/p>\n
Shapiro was complimentary of Hoffmans skills, calling him one of the most talented actors of his generation, a leading man without leading-man looks, an actor whose magnetism onscreen sprang from intelligence and fervor rather than appearance. <\/p>\n
He then quickly changed gears to rip the culture in Hollywood. <\/p>\n
Libertarianism becomes libertinism without a cultural force pushing back against the penchant for sin; Hollywood has no such cultural force, Shapiro wrote. In fact, the Hollywood demand is for more self-abasement, less spirituality, less principle, less standards. <\/p>\n
The 46-year-old actor starred in films including Capote, Almost Famous and Boogie Nights. <\/p>\n
The post concluded: <\/p>\n
No one knows what sort of demons plagued Seymour Hoffman. But without a sound moral structure around those in Hollywood who have every financial and talent advantage, the path to destruction is far too easy. <\/p>\n
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