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he was the chameleon, the rare actor who can disappear into any role. >> that's true. >> so you admitt. >> reporter: he had demons of his own that would take his life. police reveal chilling new details finding nearly 70 bag baggies of heroin in his apartment, five of them used hoffman was found alone what a hypodermic needle sticking out of his arm. now investigators keying in on the heroin itself, some stamped with the logo ace of spades to examine its purity. hoffman was supposed to pick up his children sunday but never showed up. that prompted calls to friends who came to his apartment building here and discovered his body. hoffman struggled with drugs and alcohol as a young actor saying he remained sober for decades before relapsing. it was just weeks ago that he was at the sundance film festival promoting his latest film, "god's pocket" seen here in one of his last interviews. >> someone is asking you to be involved in something that's truly personal, you know, and those are the projects you want to be a part of. >> reporter: it was his passion for his work and characters he pla

i do have enough money and i can use my talents and resources to help people rather than just a chameleon money. -- accumulating money. all of these talents given to me, i feel like they come with some responsibility. for so long, i just used them to get more for myself, to sleep better at night because i would not have to be afraid. i was so afraid of being without money. the more money i had, the more safe i felt like i was. and after a while, it occurred to me that i was still scared but also that the things that were so important to me, which was am i going to make $2 million this year, was less important than the people on the streets that are struggling or the mom that wants to have surgery for her kid but cannot afford it. -- for a long time, that was those things were equal to me because the most important thing in my life was accumulating more. tavis: so if being insecure about not having cash breeds fear, then there are a whole lot of fearful people in this country because a whole lot of us wish we had more cash. tell me more about the link between your fear about not having eno

. >> reporter: he was the chameleon, the rare actor who could disappear in any role. >> that's true. >> so, you admit it. >> reporter: yet, demons of his own would take his life. today, police revealed chilling, new details about his death scene. finding nearly 70 baggies of heroin in his apartment. five of them used. hoffman was found alone in his bathroom with a hypodermic needle sticking out of his arm. now, investigators, keying in on the heroin itself. some stamped with the logo ace of spades. to examine its purity. hoffman was supposed to pick up his children on sunday. but he never showed up. that prompted calls to friends, who came to his apartment building here, and discovered his body. hoffman struggled with drugs and alcohol as a young actor. saying he remained sober for decades, before relapsing. it was just weeks ago he was at the sundance film festival, promoting his latest film, "god's pocket." seen here in one of his last interviews. >> you kind of know that someone's asking you to be involved in something that's truly personal. you know? those are the projects you wa

why not ban chameleons or the creepy insects that look like sticks. i hate those things. politicians love outrage. it makes them feel good which trumps doing good so they belch their toxic fumes cocooned in fake concern while people die. maybe it's time to slap a warning label across their mouths. beware, secondhand stupidity kills. >> drives me nuts. >> this happened to you. >> yes, i was speaking two nights ago in boston at northeastern university, talking about my cigarette, and -- and talking about how this is great, and it's not smoking and as i put it down an individual had to walk out and take it from me, along with my glass of wine. >> you're kidding. >> because smoking is illegal on campus. >> you had wine. >> and they considered it smoking which is actually -- this is vapor, people. this is like a nicorette gum, like a patch. it's nothing. >> wait, why were you giving a speech smoking and drinking at the same time? >> prop comedy. >> i guess so. relaxing, it's what i do. >> look what you just did to dana. >> but it doesn't bother me. >> it's water vapor. >> when

. >> some of what you profile are vocal chameleons.n do in a single day, gospel rock and swing. >> yes, morning with frank sinatra and in the evening with frank zappa and then in the afternoon, buck owens. if you're able to do everything, the industry only wants you to do one thing and that's what they want to sell. and i think a lot of backup singers because of their versatility have a hard time figuring out what that singular thing is. >> judith hill, viewers may know her because she was going to be on the michael jackson tour, preparation for that tour that never happened, she got a lot of attention because she went very deep on the voice. but she even had a moment where, in between the jackson thing and "the voice" she ended up being a backup singer and she did it in disguise on television. people. >> it is. it's interesting when judith was on "this "the voice" she already made it she is a backup singer, but all the time we were making this show, judith was sleeping in her childhood bedroom in her parents house, trying to get a rec

his transformational chameleonic, mastery of his body in its use as an instrument. truman capote.o the cult leader lancaster dodd. to his role in lester banks in "almost famous" where he made outsiders feel like they belong. >> women will always be a problem for guys like us. most of the great art in the world is about that very problem. good looking people, they got no spine. their art never lasts. they get the girls. we're smarter. >> yeah. i can really see that now. >> yeah, because great art is about guilt and longing and, you know, love disguises sex and sex disguises love. face it. you got a big head start. >> glad you were home. >> i'm always home. i'm on call. >> me, too. >> you're doing great. the only true currency in this bankrupt is what you share with someone else when you're uncool. >> "there was no actor in our time who more ably suggested that each of us is a sum of our secrets. no actor who better let us know what he knew which is when each of us returns alone to our room, all bets are off." everyone who's watched philip seymour hoffman is shaking their head in di

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philip seem more hoffman was an actor's actor, a chameleon who transformed into every character he played. >> since i was a child, folks thought they had me pegged because of the way i talk. >> reporter: it was hoffman's lead role in the 2005 film "capote" that won the actor an oscar. he transformed on screen into the slim, high-voiced actor truman capote. in 1992, a small role in "scent of a woman" gave hoffman his big break, a seminole experience for the actor. >> when i got "scent of the woman" when i was 24 years old i don't think i have been more joyful since that moment. >> reporter: hoffman continued to make a name for himself in "boogie nights", a period piece that intertwined with the beginnings of the adult film industry. a student of the theater, hoffman landed his first professional stage role before he graduated from high school. he then went on to study acting at new york university and enjoyed a career on stage and on screen. >> i like mixing them up. that's what i've been doing, you know. and i'll keep doing. as long as it makes people crazy. >> who does it make crazy? >>

>> stahl: they call her a chameleon, the way she almost molts into her characters, as when she playedor," for which she won an oscar for best supporting actress. >> blanchett: you're not extending enough on your follow- through. follow-through is everything in golf, just like life... ( laughs ) don't you find? >> stahl: she spent weeks with a voice coach perfecting hepburn's distinctive accent. can you speak katharine hepburn? >> blanchett: no, i can't do anything. i'm terrible. i'm the worst dinner party guest in the world. people say, "oh, do... do your scottish," and i'll go, "okee, i'll do me..." i sound like i'm a cross between sort of from new delhi and boston. ( laughs ) it's terrible. >> stahl: in "blue jasmine," she plays a desperate park avenue socialite who loses her life of status and luxury when her husband turns out to be a swindler like bernie madoff. >> blanchett: uh, i was forced to take a job selling shoes on madison avenue. so humiliating. friends i'd had at dinner parties at our apartment came in and i waited on them. i mean, do you have any idea what that's like?

a true chameleon. he willfully rearranged his molecules to become a different person.y curious about his characters. she said all people contain mystery and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you. he had the skills, but part of how hoffman maintained his ability to transform is in his insistence on remaining private. he was a character actor until capote. hoffman would play the great and peculiar writer. i had to get my body in a place where it would behave unself-consciously in a way wildly different to whatever emotional life was in the character and he nailed it. >> i did everything i could. >> okay. >> i truly did. >> i know. >> he won an oscar for best actor and a slew of other awards for that movie, but he deserved an award for almost everything he did. he was always extraordinary. >> jim morrison, he's a drunken buffoon. give me the guess who. they've got the courage to be drunken buffoons, which is poetic. iggy pop, amen. >> it's a little bit early for that. >> not for me. >> you have no right to act on your own. you have

a chameleon who transformed into every character he played. >> since i was a child, he had me picked because of the way i talked. >> reporter: it was hoffman's lead role in this 2005 film, "capote" that won the actor an oscar. a sizeable man, hoffman convincingly transformed on screen into the slim, high-voice author, truman capote. in 1992, a small role in "scent of a woman" gave hoffman his big break. >> when i got "scent of a woman" and the casting director ran out of the office and grabbed me in the hallway and said you've got the part, i don't think i'ven more joyful since that moment. >> reporter: he continued to make a name for himself in the highly regarded "boogie nights," a period piece that intertwined with the adult film industry. a student of the theater, hoffman landed his first professional stage role before he graduated from high school. he then went on to study acting at new york university, and enjoyed a career on stage and on screen. >> i like mixing them up. that's what i've been doing. and i'll keep doing. as much as it makes people crazy. >> reporter: who does i

they look at her as a chameleon who will change her views and allegiances.se -- >> that includes peopledependence square, to be frank. some people think they need a new rate of politicians. >> i do not think being an opportunist or a populist makes her any different than politicians around here. >> some would say it makes her very skilled at the democratic election. >> what do you think her chances are? a good politician, she has had fantastic setting, for sure, to launch a campaign. will she be the next president? >> she did -- he not only indicated she is ready to run for the presidency, but when she spoke to the crowd, in some ways, the way she was talking was as if sade is the president. she has not officially debated her people, but i would be very surprised and many people would be, if she did not. chances, more people could come into the race. she is the only politician that, right now, people think have the same kind of weight the president had in the last election. >> let me ask you. she is polarizing. i have spoken to a lot of ukrainian americans and a lot of them do not think

and our wonderful chameleons and porcupines. >> julie, i love you. >> ruben studdard is going to singout with a new album called "unconditional love" and he's here to serenade us for valentine's day. >> what a treat. >> you look awesome. >> thank you so much. >> was that difficult, taking all that weight off? >> it was very difficult. but it was well worth it. i'm so glad i had that experience on "the biggest loser." and my trainer is amazing. there he is trying to get me going, always trying to get me going. even now. >> he's a doll. >> we can't believe this is your first romantic ballad album. >> it is. i'm thankful to work with david foster, executive producer of the album, along with so many other different producers he brought on board to work with me. >> what are you singing? >> "love, look what you've done to me". >> okay. ruben! ♪ hope never-ending this song ♪ ♪ this could take us all night long ♪ ♪ i look up at the moon and i felt blue ♪ ♪ then i looked again and i saw you ♪ ♪ love, look what you've done to me ♪ ♪ never thought i'd fall again ♪ ♪ so easily ♪ oh, love you woul