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14. Sep, 2010 
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I’m Still Here
Turning A New Rotten Leaf
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Is the documentary I’m Still Here a hoax or is it faux-real? Can it be both? Can it be neither? Does it even really matter when Joaquin Phoenix basically sank his own acting career battleship by having his ill-advised hip-hop sojourn chronicled for all to see (by To Die For co-star and brother-in law Casey Affleck), and suffer through? Sure, there were probably plenty of staged bits (name one reality-based anything that isn’t), but we tend to think there are more genuine moments than there aren’t (hopefully that includes the scene with Edward ‘E-JO’ James Olmos). This much is certainly true: JP(his name, not ours)’s life is a mess, and that mess keeps gettin messier than Mark Messier at a drunken family reunion of Messiers!! Watching it unfold is excruciating bidness a majority of time (his post-Letterman appearance meltdown is worth the price of admission alone), slow and boring much of the time, and yet it has a neverending spell of fascination it casts upon any viewer and will never let go!! Shiz is still haunting us, days after contact, and will be fore the 5seeable future (esp with a return trip to Letterman in the werks)!!! And beyond all that, it’s a franztastic probing look at modern celebrity culture and the insta-meta-criticism floating round the internets!! And if it is a hoax, it’s certainly the greatest performance of not only Phoenix’s career, but Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs‘ too!!!!
Update: IT WASN’T REAL!!!!!!!!!!
The Way We Were: never forget the Leafy early years…
SpaceCamp! Ruskies! Parenthood! To Die For!
Here is currently here
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…
