Better safe than sorry, Seth Rogen and James Franco have cancelled all of their press appearances relating to their embattled North Korean comedy The Interview due to threats of 9/11-esque violence from the group that hacked Sony, BuzzFeed reports. And BuzzFeed would know, because the actors pulled out of an…
In an experiment seemingly inspired in equal measure by Marina Abramović and Subservient Chicken, James Franco obeyed the commands of random Internet users Saturday afternoon, smearing on makeup, licking a sock puppet and spraying himself with whipped cream just because some nice folks asked him to.
I received a dick tip today regarding the picture above (via James Franco's Instagram), which was taken while Franco and Seth Rogen filmed Naked and Afraid:
"I'm sorry, I'm losing my mind," Tommy Wiseau said to me seconds after I shook his hand in the lobby of the Four Points Sheraton in SoHo two Sundays ago. That was more believable than most things he would go on to tell me that afternoon.
Jimmy Fallon turned 40 years of old yesterday and to celebrate, people at the Tonight Show office arranged a special surprise for him, inviting his two sexy friends to dance out of a cake. Seth Rogen and James Franco shake it for the show host, but only as a sensual preamble for the real surprise.
James Franco has responded to our post about being disinvited from his party tonight at Eastern Bloc in New York on his Instagram, as he does. And so a dialogue begins. Feels great.
James Franco's beef with Gawker stretches back to at least 2008, but recently it intensified after my colleague J.K. Trotter wrote a post called "James Franco Is Living With a Man" based on an innuendo-filled New York Times piece that probed Franco's relationship with an actor he has directed multiple times and is…
Middlebrow culture jammer James Franco is very mad at us for writing up a New York Times story that all but said he’s dating his roommate and longtime actor pal Scott Haze. “GAWKER—always getting the cutting edge, homophobic scoop!!!” he wrote on Instagram. It was as if Franco had forgotten that he and Haze have…
Poet-director-actor-writer-playwright-photographer James Franco responds to our article about (The New York Times’ portrayal of) his relationship with actor Scott Haze. Screenshot via Instagram.
A few days ago, The New York Times published a short item about writer-actor-poet-director James Franco’s various collaborations with the actor Scott Haze, such as Franco’s recent film adaption of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God, in which Haze plays a necrophiliac named Lester Ballard. Another role Haze appears to…
Aspiring writer James Franco is not afraid of jail. He has his time all planned out.
Actor/Ph.D candidate James Franco was on the Colbert Report last night to promote his movie opening this week, Child of God, and generally just act like James Franco. Whatever. You can skip everything until the very end of the interview, where Franco slyly tries to get an in-character Stephen Colbert to discuss his…
There is a right way and there are several wrong ways to take an Instagram selfie with actor/poet/MFA-PhD./creeper James Franco outside of his Broadway production of Of Mice and Men, according to James Franco.
Hollywood polymath James Franco's first published poetry collection, Directing Herbert White, is headed for bookshelves, and early reviews indicate that Franco is continuing his campaign to troll everyone and see how long it takes the world to catch on.
Last we heard from North Korea on James Franco and Seth Rogen's Kim Jong-un assassination flick The Interview, friend-of-the-regime Kim Myong-chol said it showed the "desperation of the US government and American society." The country's foreign ministry gave a much more strongly worded review today.
James Franco showed up at Sunday's Broadway Bares charity even in New York wearing under his jeans a jock strap that was exposed by RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6 winner Bianca Del Rio.
The Interview, starring James Franco and Seth Rogen as American talk show hosts sent to assassinate Kim Jong-un, does not look very funny — an assessment the North Korean state agrees with wholeheartedly.
James Franco published a terrible short story at Vice this week. People don't and shouldn't take Franco seriously as a writer but that often keeps us from discussing the precise nature of his badness. It is this: He is the kind of bad that suggests the End of Literature would be no skin off anyone's nose.
Overeducated actor James Franco has a short story, titled "Bungalow 89," in Vice's new fiction issue. Although this tale would portend to be fictional, it contains a number of seemingly biographical details about a "character" he went ahead and called "Lindsay Lohan."
If you are contemplating applying for graduate school, the new, appropriately-titled book Should I Go to Grad School? might be helpful. James Franco's essay in it is definitely not.
