Is Joaquin Phoenix Faking it?

[Mr Gruber]

http://www.slate.com/id/2211155/

There are multiple theories as to what Phoenix's public decompensation is all about. (He announced in October that he was giving up acting for good to pursue a career as a musician and has since had one disastrous live show in which he rapped inaudibly and fell off the stage.) He could be spiraling down into alcohol or drug addiction—the actor has done a stint in rehab in the past. He could be mentally ill. Or the whole thing could be an elaborate hoax, staged with the help of his friend and brother-in-law Casey Affleck, who's planning to direct a documentary that's ostensibly about Phoenix's transition from acting to rapping but will (according to theory No. 3) turn out to be the chronicle of an Andy Kaufman-style piece of performance art.

[warp1432]

Yes. On the video you can hear him get up, take off his shades, and say "Good job" to Ledderman....

[Mr Gruber]

thats the title of the article...

[The Fix]

i think he could be, anything is possible especially in hollywood... but he has a history of drug problems as well and didnt he watch his brother overdose and die right in front of him?

[Derranged_]

It's clearly a hoax; he not fooling me..

[Bendigo]

Joaquin Phoenix is still alive?

[withoutthee8]

Wakeen Phoenix shoulda been the who overdosed.

[Hitman932]

It's clearly a hoax; he not fooling me..

Me neither, and he has alot of nerve to think he can even hold Andy Kaufman's jock strap.

[FreshPrince]

I wish my name was Joaquin Phoenix

[Mr Gruber]

I wish my name was Joaquin Phoenix

it is a pretty cool name...