Hats (and beards) off to Joaquin Phoenix. We can now safely call I'm Still Here a mockumentary, now that director Casey Affleck has admitted that Phoenix, an Oscar-nominated actor, was just playing yet another role when he pretended to shuck his career in favor of becoming a rapper and, while doing so, steadily self-destruct. "It's a terrific performance, it's the performance of his career," Affleck told the New York Times in a recent interview. Hmph, David Letterman will be the judge of that. In addition to admitting that the movie—which Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan called either "a sad and horrifying cautionary tale" or "a glum and dispiriting...
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