Trailer: I'M STILL HERE: THE LOST YEARS OF JOAQUIN PHOENIX convinces no-one

Is there a single soul out there that truly believes, deep-down in their heart of hearts, that I'm Still Here: The Lost Years of Joaquin Phoenix is anything but an elaborate, ill-executed, put-on? A hoax so badly handled that the Letterman audience saw through it immediately, as did the Internet community. Phoenix and his brother-in-law Casey Affleck (director of the doc) had us fooled for about 24 hours the day when Phoenix went crazy in front of that reporter and told the world he wanted to be a rapper and not an actor - but that was it. We knew what they were up as soon as a documentary was announced and they have failed to convince us of otherwise.

The documentary that features the difficult transition to rap music and the supposed meltdown of the two time Oscar nominated actor will debut at the Venice Film Festival next month before evaporating and ceasing to exist. The film will be a STV doc and Phoenix will lose the weight (I'm presuming he'll be at Venice with another hoax stunt - Andy Kaufman sure would) and sometime next year will begin taking on film roles again. We won't hear anything else about the doc for about four years when Affleck will finally agree that it was a hoax all along. John Horn wrote in the L.A. Times in May that the documentary features "more male frontal nudity than you'd find in some gay porn films and a stomach-turning sequence in which someone feuding with Phoenix defecates on the actor while he's asleep" and that buyers weren't sure if what they had seen was real or not. A compliment to the documentary and how well made it might be, but buyers aren't the sharpest knives in the draw after all. The trailer is better than I thought it would be (LOVE the narration!) and Phoenix's bulging belly will get a reaction from audiences I'm sure, but we know what this is. And we've known for a while, haven't we?