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A Brief Primer On Riff Raff, The (Really Good) Houston Rapper Who Will Be Portrayed On Screen By James Franco

If Noz and The Onion collaborated, they might come up with a scenario like this one: Gucci Mane and Selena Gomez star in a Harmony Korine-directed film alongside James Franco, whose character is loosely based on the little-known YouTube rapper Riff Raff. But, of course, this is the era of trollgaze, ... More >>

NYU Professor Says He Was Fired For Giving James Franco a D

​One of James Franco's MFA professors at NYU had to give the actor a D after he missed 12 "Directing the Actor II" classes in one semester. The professor, José Angel Santana, now says that the school fired him over the D and he's suing NYU in Manhattan Supreme Court. He's also taken his story ... More >>

Film Classics I Don't Want To See In 3D

Disney has learned that if you bring back a classic cartoon in 3-D, you make many more dimensions of moola. But I pray the same trend doesn't hit some other types of screen gems because in my lifetime, I absolutely never want to see the following: *Gandhi in 3-D Thrill to Mahatma's protruding ri ... More >>

James Franco's Bare Ass!

This is in the newest Flaunt magazine. If you've got it, flaunt it. And baby, James Franco has got it. I could look at this for, I don't know, 127 hours.

James Franco, on Sale for Eight Grand

Who can resist?​Well, this is not the real James Franco, but this version of James Franco can live on forever. For a measly $8,000, original photographs taken by the lovable Jack-of-all-trades can be yours when they go on sale next week at the RxArt Pop-Up Shop. The nonprofit, which places f ... More >>

THE J. CREW

The era that made movie history

Eddie Murphy As Oscar Host: Waaa!

David Shankbone/Wikipedia​I'm not thrilled about Eddie Murphy being chosen to host the next Oscars. First the good news: After the last telecast with poor, defeated Anne Hathaway and James Franco totally at sea, they're smart to go back to a comedian, someone with a standup background and so ... More >>

The Best Male Hustlers In Movies: A Montage

Tony Ward, Hustler White​It's the guys' turn. These are the studs who sold it to their audience as persuasively as they did to their screen clients. Get out your PayPal accounts.

Simian Disobedience

The making of a monkey activist in Rise of the Planet of the Apes

James Franco Doesn't Look At People

​Hollywood hottie James Franco looks down a lot when talking to reporters, according to a friend of mine in the biz. The star of the new Rise of the Planet of the Apes and upcoming biopics about gay icons Hart Crane and Sal Mineo, Franco gets a little shy when answering questions and doesn't ... More >>

Kid Cudi

​Hollywood hottie James Franco looks down a lot when talking to reporters, according to a friend of mine in the biz. The star of the new Rise of the Planet of the Apes and upcoming biopics about gay icons Hart Crane and Sal Mineo, Franco gets a little shy when answering questions and doesn't ... More >>

Live: James Murphy And Pat Mahoney Spin For James Franco And Other Beautiful People

​ Special Disco Version (James Murphy and Pat Mahoney) Museum of Modern Art Monday, May 23 Better than: Watching James Franco's "Actors Acting" clip over and over (and over and over) again. It wasn't too long ago that James Murphy said his goodbyes as the frontman of LCD Soundsystem. Accordi ... More >>

Bruce Vilanch on Who Will Host Next Year's Oscars

If you thought the ceremonies weren't funny, don't blame him.

Stoned and Throned in Your Highness

If you thought the ceremonies weren't funny, don't blame him.

James Franco As John "Junior" Gotti?

​It could happen, even though John"Junior" Gotti himself doesn't know anything about Franco! According to the New York Post, a movie is being readied for 2013, with John Travolta as Gotti Sr., and director Nick Cassavetes apparently wants Franco for the offspring. (Well, after hosting the O ... More >>

Meryl's Other Daughter Takes New York

​We've already seen Mamie Gummer in plays, movies, and TV shows. But her 24-year-old sister Grace Gummer is relatively new to me, so I was curious to see her in a suporting role in the new revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. And she's good! Grace has her mother's (and sister's) face, but her ... More >>

Academy Member Admits Franco and Hathaway Were Bad Oscar Hosts

​ In a very ungracious move, a high-ranking member of the Academy of blah blah has given an interview saying that James Franco and Anne Hathaway were terrible choices as Oscar hosts. Let me add to the ungraciousness by saying "Hallelujah!" The Academy member cites the two comely stars' lack ... More >>

Worst Oscars Ever!

Or at least since the Rob Lowe/Snow White one. Here's why: *ZERO suspense. Any random person on the street has known the winners for months. *The tug between "young and hip personalities" and ancient film references was as schizo as Cate Blanchett's dress. *The acceptance speeches were either da ... More >>

Three's Company With James Franco?

​Ok, get this, kids. The worst sitcom ever--except for My Mother The Car--has become James Franco's obsession to the point where he's threatening to take it to the stage and/or big screen. You see, Franco just did a Three's Company-related art installation, and the original show's creators w ... More >>

Cults and Ingenue Fever at Sundance

​Ok, get this, kids. The worst sitcom ever--except for My Mother The Car--has become James Franco's obsession to the point where he's threatening to take it to the stage and/or big screen. You see, Franco just did a Three's Company-related art installation, and the original show's creators w ... More >>

Nicole Kidman and James Franco Together: My Thoughts

​It was announced the other day that James Franco will join Nicole Kidman this fall in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, about a gigolo's attempt to relaunch his dreams via an aging movie star.

Ryan Reynolds Is The Top Gay Male Fantasy Hookup!

​If not Scarlett Johansson's anymore. This revelation has emerged from Out's sex survey, which found that Ryan's abs are what gays most want to caress during their fantasy leisure time. The runners-up are the following hotties:

James Franco: "Maybe I'm Just Gay"

​Is he the world's most gay-friendly straight man or the world's most straight-friendly gay man? Either way, James Franco is going to keep things murky just to drive us cuckoo-crazy over it. Says ew.com, "Unlike the loud denials from some stars and even louder silences from others, the respo ... More >>

Anne Hathaway and James Franco? Here Are 5 Pairs Better Suited to Host the Oscars.

via NY Daily News​Today, Anne Hathaway and James Franco were named the hosts of this year's Academy Awards. The Daily News reports that Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer (the producers of the Oscars) said, "James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons -- fresh, exc ... More >>

Heaven Is Full of Young Adults

According to Colton Burpo, who had a near-death experience as a four-year-old but lived to write a book about it with his dad (Heaven Is for Real, Christmas-list it!): There are no old people in heaven. If you make it up there, you get the Benjamin Button treatment. Also, as he explains in this Fox ... More >>

Who Will Be People's "Sexiest Man Alive"?

​The annual, much ballyhooed issue is slated for November 17th, and tongues are wagging. (All of them publicists', of course.) I suspect it'll be someone like James Franco, Matthew Morrison, Johnny Depp, or Jon Hamm, which is absolutely fine with me. But is there someone else who deserves th ... More >>

James Franco's New Film Is Not for the Squeamish

​In Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, James Franco plays the real-life adventurer who got his arm pinned by a boulder and spent six days alone in the wilderness trying to survive until he finally cut his arm off and escaped. I'm not sure if this will be a big date movie, especially since at the screen ... More >>

James Franco, Out on a Limb, in 127 Hours

​In Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, James Franco plays the real-life adventurer who got his arm pinned by a boulder and spent six days alone in the wilderness trying to survive until he finally cut his arm off and escaped. I'm not sure if this will be a big date movie, especially since at the screen ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Weezer's Pinkerton, Taylor Swift, AfroCubism, and More

Weezer in simpler times, or maybe not ​In this week's Village Voice, Mike Powell hails the reissue of Weezer's Pinkerton, Theon Weber reviews Taylor Swift's sneakily great Speak Now, and Tad Hendrickson chronicles the belated emergence of the Mali-Cuba connection finally captured on AfroCubism ... More >>

TEACHER’S PET

Can Jame Franco write, too?

Howl Should Have Been Better

​I thought James Franco would be the problem with Howl, the new movie about the Allen Ginsberg poem's place in the history of obscenity and art. After all, when you think of Ginsberg, you don't exactly picture the hottest man on earth, a sort of nouvelle James Dean with moist eyes and pouty l ... More >>

Can Julia Roberts Score a Comeback?

​She reportedly turned down The Blind Side and The Proposal, two smashes that ended up making Sandra Bullock the hottest property in Hollywood except for the sex rehab center where her husband ended up. But now Julia Roberts has said yes to what seems like a sure thing: Eat Pray Love After ... More >>

James Franco Exhibit at Clocktower Gallery Leaves Us Thinking, "What Can't This Guy Do?"

​We came to know him as an actor (Milk, Pineapple Express, Knocked Up, and soon, Eat, Pray, Love), then, as a brainy student (New York University, Columbia, Brooklyn College, Yale, and the Rhode Island School of Design). Now he's created his first solo art exhibit, The Dangerous Book Four Boys ... More >>

How Much Do Reality Stars Get in Reality?

​CLICK HERE for my column telling exactly how much the stars of a certain gay reality show are getting paid for the whole season. It might make you rethink your dreams of stardom.

Reality Star Gets Paid Peanuts!

Shooting from the hips about Allen Ginsberg, Ron Galella, and other provocateurs

A Gay Offer For Will Forte

​MacGruber star Will Forte has openly complained that when he deep kissed James Franco on SNL, a gay blog called him unattractive. Well, don't look at me!

Let's Cast The Miss Saigon Movie

​So producer Paula Wagner is starting to prepare the inevitable movie of the Broadway smash Miss Saigon--the most popular bunch of wet Saigon noodles in history--and Precious director Lee Daniels reportedly might direct.

THE HIGH LIFE

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The Gay-Friendliest Actor On the Planet

Remember the old days, when actors would studiously avoid gay roles or projects because of what creepy people out there might think? Well, sexuality pioneers like James Franco have been making that kind of career queasiness as obsolete as separate restrooms for gays. In his already impressive care ... More >>

THE MIGHTY PEN

The annual fest for lit lovers returns

Interview: Five Questions for The Wrestler's Necro Butcher

The annual fest for lit lovers returns

Week in Review: You Be Da Man! You Be Da Man!

Rebecca SmeyneStill so mad I missed this... This will seem strange, but the Oscars were not even a week ago. Not that they were all that memorable--at this point, we only retain a foggy recollection, something about a Beck song and James Franco recommending a certain book on the red carpet... To b ... More >>

James Franco Recommends Carl Wilson's A Journey to the End of Taste at the Oscars

Zoilus is oddly (modestly?) quiet today, but Carl Wilson had his 33 1/3 book Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste recommended by James Franco on the Oscars red carpet last night. Since these books are labors of love in a bizarre, almost impossibly quixotic sense, it's good to see W ... More >>

How M.I.A. (and America) Got Her Swagger Back

The menace of "Paper Planes" trumps the frivolity of "American Boy." Both are good signs.

Pineapple Express's True Bromance

Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love

Tatum O'Neal's and Seth Rogen's Drug Controversies

Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love

'Flyboys'

Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love

NY Mirror

Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love