Joaquin Phoenix to Rap, Casey Affleck to Direct

Why do I get the feeling this won't be a very long documentary? Casey Affleck will chronicle the music career of his brother-in-law, Joaquin Phoenix. I guess we all made one or both of the following assumptions when Phoenix announced he was retiring from the movie business to concentrate on tunes: 1) He wouldn't immediately turn around and make a movie about the career he chose instead of making movies. 2) He would kind of do the Johnny Cash thing, a singer-songwriter type approach, and not try to rap. J-Phix, as I'm going to start calling him now, will launch his music career tonight at a club in Vegas, which worked so well for Paris and K-Fed. The Hollywood Reporter also says that Sean Combs will produce the debut album by J-Phix, and I suspect that will be in Affleck's documentary, as well. I have to confess, I'm more morbidly curious - almost in a This is...Spinal Tap! sort of way to see the movie, although I certainly have trouble picturing the artist formerly known as Joaquin Phoenix forging a successful career in hip hop. I just can't see him at the Source Awards. Sorry.

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[TRISH]

I THINK HE RELASPED.EVEN HIS GOOD-BYE IS BACKWARDS.POOR GUY.CAN'T SAY HE DOESN'T HAVE GUTS.

[Christian Avila]

This totally reminds of this other really good actor that wanted to try his hand at music. What was his name... Riv... River! River...Plylex... Plexi... Oh! Phoenix! River Phoenix! Wait a minute, didn't he die? Were they Brothers?

Well, maybe instead of a drug overdose outside of the Viper Room it'll be a whole "East Coast" vs "West Coast" sorta thing.

R.I.P. fatty smalls...I mean Biggie.