As Salon’s The Fix gleefully reported today, Joaquin Pheonix is the hottest Freak of Nature in Hollywood.

“Do I have a large frog in my hair?” he asked a reporter on the red carpet last Friday at the LA premier of Walk the Line. “Something’s crawling out of my scalp.”
When someone shouted that he “looked great,” Phoenix said, “No, but I feel it. I’m not worried about the looks. I’m worried about the sensation of my brain being eaten … What did you ask me?”

Sigh. Some people should have microphones permanently stapled to their faces.