The christening was understood to have been conducted by Father John Caden, a friend of the Blairs, who has baptised all of the prime minister's children.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Caden Cotard, who starts off running a small theatre company in Schenectady, and, following a sumptuous grant from the MacArthur Foundation, ends up spending decades on an altogether grander project constructing a chunk of alternative city within New York, in which countless characters go about their scripted lives.

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