TEASER: Joaquin Back On Letterman

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• Why does everyone think the first appearance on Letterman’s was a joke? I see the whole thing from a different perspective: Mr. Phoenix was really gone back then, he unwisely sank his career down the drain… what came after is a an act of artificial resurrection, a clever one indeed. One that attempts to cover everything, even that stupid appearance on the Letterman’s show, with a larger-than-life blanket that says that everything was nothing but a joke. This is a very clever PR move, one that makes the appearance on the Letterman impossible to prove either way: bluff or truth? Casey Afflelck shoots a documentary, creates a huge media interest by selling it as a true documentary and then…oops it’s not, the documentary is a mock-documentary about stardom (as it were the season finale of Entorurage (Series 7); and while Affleck was at it, he threw in the fact, that, actually, it was all a joke, since that infamous start at Letterman… so Phoenix has never been crazy or thrown his career down the drain, in fact the whole thing shows how great an actor he is. …hence the actor can start working again, if he wants. I am sorry but i don’t buy it, it is more likely a clever way to resurrect a career that was dead, a clever way to offer an impossible explanation to a career-suicide move as it was Phoenix’s at Letterman’s. I have only one question for Hollywood execs: who would have hired Phoenix before Affleck’s documentary? I guess no one! After Affleck’s explanation and Phoenix new visit at Letterman’s? Well… Hollywood’s got back one of its stars and Studios can invest on him again. So my congratulations on Casey and Joaquim to put together such a perfect PR act.

  Comment by Gio — Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 12:07am PDT  Reply to this post

• Not as funny as the original.

  Good to see Joaquin with a haircut.

  Comment by Matthias Galvin — Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 7:53am PDT  Reply to this post

• Well done. I’m a sucker and was nearly convinced Phoenix had gone off the deep end (pressures, drugs, who knows?). The prior Letterman interview with the bearded spacey Phoenix was flawless and very funny, although a little uncomfortable at times.

  Last nights interview was pretty good as well.

  Affleck and Phoenix make a good point. The mix between “reality” and entertainment has taken off. Not sure its good for us, but not likely going away soon.

  Comment by jb — Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 8:14am PDT  Reply to this post

• hard to believe that letterman was that stupid

  Comment by Bill H — Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 9:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• Gio, watch the movie. Affleck was filming the “doc” well before the Letterman appearance. Now that they have come clean that the “doc” is fiction I think that it is quite clear that this was an elaborate blend of cinema and performance art. This is definitely not an attempt to resurrect a dead career. Though the process of making this film did effectively kill Phoenix’s ability to work in Hollywood (up until now of course) this movie is clearly not a PR stunt designed to resurrect his career. The movie shows us just how good of an actor Joaquin actually is and also reveals the depths to which he is willing to go for his art. I wonder if his little run in with Werner Herzog gave him a little inspiration to mix fact and fiction…..

  Comment by Jay — Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 10:10am PDT  Reply to this post

• + 1 to what you said, Gio.

  Plus, who cares?

  Comment by LPB — Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 10:29am PDT  Reply to this post

• Who cares about this? It’s not like anyone is going to see this movie. After all, it is being released by Magnolia.

  Comment by JD — Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 12:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• if he would of got that record deal…I think he would still be CRAZY!!!…

  Comment by scott f kelly — Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 4:45pm PDT  Reply to this post