Us Weekly reports that #1 Folsom Prison pin-up hunk Joaquin Phoenix survived a car crash today:

Us Weekly has learned exclusively that actor Joaquin Phoenix was involved in a serious car accident in Los Angeles earlier today. "His brakes went out and the car flipped over," the actor's publicist, Susan Patricola, tells Us. "But he's doing fine. He may be very sore in the morning, but right now he is doing okay."

We were comforted by his flack's statement, even knowing full well that when a publicist says a celebrity client's "brakes went out," it's basically the car accident equivalent of telling you they were hospitalized for "exhaustion." It's not an outright lie per se their client probably is feeling exhausted, just like their brakes did fail to engage it's the just the how and the why of it that gets lost in the shuffle.

• JOAQUIN PHOENIX SURVIVES CAR CRASH [Us Weekly]

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