Autopsy Conducted on Hoffman, Answers Sought on Actor's Drug Use

Authorities were conducting an autopsy on the body of acclaimed stage and film actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Sunday of an apparent drug overdose, an official said on Monday.   Hoffman, considered by many to be one of the finest actors of his generation, was discovered in the bathroom of his Greenwich Village apartment with a syringe in his arm. "We're conducting the examination in the cause of the manner of death,"...

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