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    Joaquin Phoenix Rap Career a Hoax?

    Defamer said it first, and now Entertainment Weekly's getting in on the action, speculating that Joaquin Phoenix's "retirement" from acting and new rap career are an "elaborate Andy Kaufman-style hoax." Casey Affleck is supposedly documenting the transition in a new film, but the guy is Phoenix's friend and brother-in-law and could just be doing him a solid.