Phoenix Jumps In

HE reader Eddie Garcia-Rivera attended the Joaquin Phoenix performance Wednesday night (i.e., Thursday morning around 2 am) at Miami Beach's LIV nightclub, inside the Fountainebleau hotel. He filmed the entire "performance" and apparent fight that ensued. The action starts around 2:48.


I love the way a big clump of hair is sticking out of the back of Phoenix's head. The only way you can get hair to do this (if it's dense and curly, that is) is to sleep on it for two or three hours and then not comb it. The man is a pig, an animal.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 13, 2009 at 5:23 AM

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Sabina E Author Profile Page says ...

it's all fake, fake, fake. Still funny to watch, though.

Posted by Sabina E Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 6:28 AM

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actionman Author Profile Page says ...

The documentary that Casey Affleck is making out of all of this idiocy BETTER be funny and worth all of this recent asinity.

It's a damn shame that Two Lovers has gone more-or-less completely unnoticed.

Posted by actionman Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 6:35 AM

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gradystiles Author Profile Page says ...

It's Phoenix, not Pheonix. You continue to misspell it.

Posted by gradystiles Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 6:36 AM

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NDH Author Profile Page says ...

I wonder what the tone of Affleck's film will be. Will it strive for absurdist comedy, or will it be a strict and straightforward presentation of Phoenix's shenanigans? Will Phoenix secretly let the viewer in on his joke during behind-the-scenes interviews, or will it be a pure Andy Kaufman-style hoax?

Posted by NDH Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 6:59 AM

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Posted by ZayTonday Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 7:05 AM

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hawthorne Author Profile Page says ...

By the time the mockumentary comes out I feel like we will have seen it all on youtube. What is the point then? where is the surprise? it is already starting to get old so how stale will this all be by the time they want us to pay money to see the "joke" on us?

Posted by hawthorne Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 7:12 AM

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Bilge Author Profile Page says ...

I love these CLOVERFIELD easter eggs.

Posted by Bilge Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 7:56 AM

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nemo Author Profile Page says ...

It looks like Phoenix (Pheoenix?) on YouTube. When the mockumentary comes out, we'll find out that Sacha Baron Cohen (Coheon?) has been playing Phoenix the whole time, and Pheonix has been filming Bruno (Breuno?).

Posted by nemo Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 8:03 AM

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Ray Author Profile Page says ...

God, this is stupid.

Posted by Ray Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 8:39 AM

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Joshua Mooney Author Profile Page says ...

I agree with Hawthorne. This thing's already done. What would be the surprises? Ho-fuckin'-hum. I actually bought the "genuine mental problems" angle after the Letterman performance, because that seemed real, but this is clearly faked, and badly at that. For one thing, his musical backing cuts off WAY too soon after the trouble starts for it not to have been anticipated. I'm thinking, of course, of the Airplane at Altamont, when Marty Balin jumps off the stage and gets cold-cocked by an Angel? The band keeps playing long after the (truly) crazy shit starts -- hell, Spenser is standing up and still playing after half his drum kit's been knocked over. Or maybe the hippies had a stronger "show-must-go-on" ethic than kids today?

Posted by Joshua Mooney Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 9:13 AM

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Gnome de Guerre Author Profile Page says ...

Maybe it isn't a mockumentary? Maybe it's a documentary about Phoenix's struggles trying to pull an Andy Kaufman and sticking to character in a world of youtube and blogs?

Posted by Gnome de Guerre Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 9:28 AM

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Abbey Normal Author Profile Page says ...

I actually think it's brilliant. It's possible I'm reading too much into this of course, but the end game here isn't just the film Affleck's making...the whole thing is a giant commentary on the line between fame and infamy. It's a form of performance art being executed by an ambitious actor/performer testing the boundaries of his craft. And it reminds me a little of that satirical meme from Being John Malkovich...he may as well have become a puppeteer.

Not to mentiont that fact that Joaquin is now more famous than he's ever been.

Posted by Abbey Normal Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 9:52 AM

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Joshua Mooney Author Profile Page says ...

Warwick: What a lovely idea! Yet it won't work, I fear. It's too meta-post-post-post-modern, post-ironic. It defeats its own porpoise, in other words.

Posted by Joshua Mooney Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 9:54 AM

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Admiral82 Author Profile Page says ...

I hope this is all a put on. And like the general consensus has been saying, it better be fucking hysterically funny.

I bought Letterman. But this is just farcical....

Posted by Admiral82 Author Profile Page at March 13, 2009 9:57 AM

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