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Harvey Specter 03-12-2009 03:06 AM

Joaquin Phoenix leaps into crowd at hip-hop show
 
Starting to smell like a Borat type film in the making....


Quote:

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Joaquin Phoenix appears to be getting into the act of being a petulant hip-hop star.

He jumped off the stage during a short performance at a Miami Beach nightclub early Thursday morning and confronted an audience member who was heckling him. Security guards dragged him back on stage and escorted him away.

It's unknown whether the confrontation — and his pledge to quit acting and start rapping — was real or a put-on, but actor Casey Affleck recorded the performance on camera.

In October, Phoenix's publicist confirmed he was making the career switch. In January he performed at a Las Vegas nightclub and the next month he made a strange appearance on David Letterman's "Late Show." Actor Ben Stiller lampooned that appearance at the Oscars.

Hundreds of people packed the nightclub at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel after the doors opened at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday night.

Several of those in the audience said they came just to see Phoenix, who left them cooling their heels for almost four hours while disc jockeys played house and hip-hop music.

Phoenix came out on stage before 2 a.m., smoking a cigarette and wearing a disheveled dark suit, sneakers and his scraggly long hair and beard.

He began rapping to a beat played by the DJ and nodding to the music, although most of the lyrics were unintelligible. Then he responded to someone who appeared to be heckling him in the audience near the stage.

"We have a (double-expletive) in the audience," he said before jumping into the crowd. It was not immediately clear whether the two men exchanged any blows.

"I saw the guy screaming at Joaquin, and Joaquin just came down," said Jorge Lledo, 30, of Miami Beach.

Security guards swarmed the scene and dragged Phoenix away.

The bizarre spectacle struck many in the audience as the latest prank in an extended farce staged by Phoenix. Affleck, an Oscar-nominated actor who is also Phoenix's brother-in-law, is making a documentary about Phoenix's career shift.

"(Affleck's) camera was filming the whole time, so it makes me think he has ulterior motives," said Luis Gendron, 23, of Miami.

"He knows the game he's playing, and he's good at it," Gendron said of Phoenix.

death_blossom 03-12-2009 04:58 AM

sounds like one hilarious mockumentary in the making!

The_AK 03-12-2009 09:27 AM

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001618/

i dont see anything in the making

Black SC2 03-12-2009 09:23 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXpYk7WGN5Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pflgM...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI6Qtb6Tn4Q

Armind 03-12-2009 09:29 PM

What a joke :haha:

rsx 03-12-2009 09:54 PM

1. Natalie Portman is gorgeous
2. This would be pretty sick if it was a mockumentary

SlowRider 03-13-2009 01:08 AM

too much drugs made this guy wacky .....looks like he has some rare mental disorderthat developed late in his life ....

Ch28 03-13-2009 01:11 AM

He's filming a "movie"

Jason00S2000 03-13-2009 02:06 AM

Uh, guys, this is a carefully staged series of events to promote something.

MarkyMark 03-13-2009 02:19 AM

Regardless, this motherfucker is rich and can do whatever he wants now, whether he's making a movie out of it or just being a fucking idiot.

hotjoint 03-13-2009 07:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarkyMark (Post 6326868)
Regardless, this motherfucker is rich and can do whatever he wants now, whether he's making a movie out of it or just being a fucking idiot.

:werd:


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