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Yes, we're all awaiting eagerly new pics ... I hope the Wireimage people are fast at the Film Festival ... wink

Okay, it's kinda boring to read about Joaquin's car accident (about one and a half years ago) again and again but I liked the article how cool Werner Herzog is ... LOL. The rest of the article is a worth reading as well, I just can't post the whole thing right now.

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Canada.com: The AlphabeTIFF

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H is for Herzog

Forget George, Brad and even Denys: Werner Herzog is by far the coolest attendee at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Why? Well, there are the films, the philosophy, the accent and the time he ate his shoe. But beyond all that, there are two reasons why we're truly blessed to have the close personal friend of Klaus Kinski in town: 1. In February, 2006, Herzog was being interviewed when a sniper shot the director in the abdomen with an air rifle. The BBC interviewer later explained: "Herzog, as if it was the most normal thing in the world, said, 'Oh, someone is shooting at us. We must go.' He had a bruise the size of a snooker ball with a hole in it. He just carried on with the interview while bleeding quietly in his boxer shorts." Herzog, who had been shot at with real bullets in the past, was not impressed by the unknown sniper. "It was not a significant bullet," he said. "I am not afraid." When asked about the shooting earlier this year, the director was even more blase: "It did not impress me." 2. Two days later, Joaquin Phoenix was driving along Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles when the brakes on his car failed. To avoid a collision with another vehicle, Phoenix veered off the road and the car flipped over. The force of the impact flung the actor into the passenger seat and caused the airbag to deploy.

"I remember this knocking on the passenger window," Phoenix later told the Los Angeles Times. "There was this German voice saying, 'Just relax.' There's the air bag. I can't see, and I'm saying, 'I'm fine. I am relaxed.' Finally, I rolled down the window and this head pops inside. And he said, 'No, you're not.' And suddenly I said to myself, 'That's Werner Herzog!' There's something so calming and beautiful about Werner Herzog's voice. I felt completely fine and safe. I climbed out." B.E.....

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