This just gets more and more bizarre. Casey Affleck now admits that "I'm Still Here" is a hoax after all.
But I can't help thinking that maybe he's just saying this b/c of the scathing reception to the film (although Gleiberman gave it a high grade). So, maybe his saying it's a hoax is really a hoax.
Check out these quotes from the same interview:
"I never intended to trick anybody,” said Mr. Affleck, an intense 35-year-old who spoke over a meat-free, cheese-free vegetable sandwich on Thursday. “The idea of a quote, hoax, unquote, never entered my mind.”
“We wanted to create a space,” he said. “You believe what’s happening is real.”
The article also brings up the Phoenix family's troubled childhood (which Namo pointed out to us when all this started a year ago) and mentions that it may have helped validate the perception of a man disintegrating.
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What a totally stupid idea this was. Bizarre is right.
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The Chicago Tribune gave it zero stars. Gawker headlined it's story on this subject with "BullSh*t movie everyone knew was bullsh*t turns out to be bullsh*t after all."
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Oh, I thought this was about that young woman who it looks like threw acid in her own face.
So many hoaxes, so little time.
I thought the thread was going to be about CountA.
I thought it was going to be about the girl who admitted that she threw the acid in her own face.
And I thought it was gonna be about that girl who purposely threw acid on her face and blamed it on a black woman.
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I thought perhaps it was about that poor girl who faked the acid attack! Has anyone heard about that?
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I thought it was the acid thing too Joe
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/09/16/2010-09-16_bethany_storro_admits_she_faked_story_of_acid_attack_selfinflicted_her_burns_pol.html
what a nut she is.(blame the black folks in Vancouver).
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Wait is this about that girl who pretended to become a rapper or Joaquin Phoenix throwing acid in David Letterman's face?
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Wow- what a day! You can't believe anything! Remember that Borat guy? Turns out he was fake too!
Borat really BRITISH!
I thought it was going to be about the Christine O'Donnell campaign!
Wait, what? So girl threw acid in her own face?
Yeah, apparently she's a black girl named Christine O'Donnell.
Yes. Joaquin really isn't crazy and the acid woman threw it in her own face.
I actually heard there was a woman somewhere who threw acid in her own face! Anyone hear anything about that? We don't get all the gossip here in Sverige.
Didn't she do it on the Letterman show in front of Phoenix who was promoting his fake ass movie? I think I heard that somewhere. Can't be certain.
No, she threw in her OWN face b/c otherwise Joaquin wouldn't go on Letterman who was preteinding to be crazy.
God, can't you people read?
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You don't have to be so snippy Taz. It's not OUR fault you posted such a confusing story!
Whatever happened to Joaquin Phoenix anyway?
I'm just glad Joaquin was never actually in that balloon.
Bill Cosby, Jeff Goldblum, Paul McCartney, Abe Vigoda and the boy from Small Wonder are all still alive, btw.
I don't recall any mention of a black lady in a balloon, Reg.
What I don't get, why were the words scratched onto her face by Joaquin backwards?
But the part about him crashing the White House correspondents dinner was true, right?
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