File-In this film publicity image released by Overture Films, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, left, and Amy Ryan are shown in a scene from, "Jack Goes Boating." In a medium (movies) that prizes glamor and flash, he offered the opposite: untidy, imperfect, shy, awkward and eminently real people. Despite his outsized talent, he was relentlessly humble. Bennett Miller, his longtime friend and “Capote” director, once called him “a shaman-like actor.” (AP Photo/Overture Films, K.C. Bailey, File)NEW YORK (AP) — In a medium that prizes glamor and flash, Philip Seymour Hoffman provided the alternative in movie: untidy, imperfect, shy, awkward and eminently real folks.