German filmmaker Werner Herzog always seems to find documentary subjects whose odd, outcast and often dangerous lives elicit in viewers a sense of awe and wonderment. Over the weekend fans of the filmmakers found equal awe in the Herzog’s life. The encyclopedic Greenzine reports on the Werner weekend. First Herzog saved Joaquin Phoenix from a car crash in the Hollywood Hills. Yahoo News reports Phoenix saying, "I remember this knocking on the passenger window...There was this German voice saying, 'Just relax.'" But wait, there’s more! Another Yahoo News Story tells about Herzog being shot during a BBC interview. After hearing a popping sound, Herzog is reported to have turned calmly to the reporter to say in his crisp Germanic voice, "Oh, someone is shooting at us. We must go."

# posted by Peter Bowen @ 2/06/2006 01:37:00 PM

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What more would you expect from a man who ate his own shoe?
# posted by  Josh Boelter @ 2/06/2006 2:20 PM  

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