{"id":1598,"date":"2010-09-13T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/development.gifrichard.com\/delinlee\/one-hell-of-a-hot-mess-posing-as-a-hoax\/"},"modified":"2010-09-13T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T17:52:00","slug":"one-hell-of-a-hot-mess-posing-as-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.delinleedelovely.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/one-hell-of-a-hot-mess-posing-as-a-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"one hell of a hot mess posing as a hoax&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i can&#8217;t quite fathom what to make of this doco. the first twenty minutes are hilarious, seriously some of the funniest footage mocking hollywood. ever. hats off to director\/editor etc casey affleck, whose vision rings loud and clear throughout. then the tragedy hits &#8211; hoax or not &#8211; joaquin&#8217;s demise is horrible to witness. drugs, hookers, inner demons and all. essentially its a painful untangling peppered with a-grade cameo&#8217;s from mos def, p.diddy &#038; edward james olmos. by the end of the film, after the onslaught of flash-frontal nudity and the letterman appearance, i&#8217;m pretty sure i wasn&#8217;t the only one to leave the cinema with a &#8216;wtf&#8217; expression on my face. &#8220;he wants to go somewhere quiet for a few days&#8221; reveals his assistant. and off they go to visit papa phoenix in panama. in the closing scene, as the star&#8217;s solitary trek through the jungle ends with him sinking underwater (cue sad piano melody) one thing is clear: hoax or not, phoenix is a man facing his future with eyes wide open.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ypS3mHulk1w\/TI5lG6-ONfI\/AAAAAAAAIpA\/dEzBLpqBEe4\/s1600\/im-still-here-20100817-090648.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ypS3mHulk1w\/TI5lG6-ONfI\/AAAAAAAAIpA\/dEzBLpqBEe4\/s400\/im-still-here-20100817-090648.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i can&#8217;t quite fathom what to make of this doco. the first twenty minutes are hilarious, seriously some of the funniest footage mocking hollywood. ever. hats off to director\/editor etc casey affleck, whose vision rings loud and clear throughout. then the tragedy hits &#8211; hoax or not &#8211; joaquin&#8217;s demise is horrible to witness. drugs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.delinleedelovely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.delinleedelovely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.delinleedelovely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.delinleedelovely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.delinleedelovely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.delinleedelovely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.delinleedelovely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.delinleedelovely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.delinleedelovely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}